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Hello, this week we take off into the future of aviation.

Will flights get faster?

Could we see a fully electric plane and can our own

naked scientists land a commercial aircraft? We'll find out. Plus in the news a new way

of disguising cancer drugs as fat sharks are in danger and how do you make a bad joke funnier.

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I'm Isie Clark and this is the Naked Scientists.

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First, let's take a look at the news this week.

First, let's take a look at the news this week. Every two minutes someone in the UK is

diagnosed with cancer and there are a range of options when it comes to treatment.

Frequently though chemotherapy drugs designed to hit fast-growing cells like cancers are used, but not all

rapidly growing cells are cancerous, so there are inevitably side effects. Now scientists at Northwestern University have found that

dressing up chemotherapy drugs as fat molecules makes it easier to

concentrate their actions on cancer cells alone. Isie Clark heard how it

works from Nathan Geneski.

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