HFC Ban; Human Cell Atlas; Origin of Hunting with Dogs
BBC Inside Science
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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Biologists are to begin a 10 year international project to map the multitude of different kinds of cell in the human body. The average adult is built of 37 trillion cells and if you look in a text book, it will say there are about 200 distinct varieties of cells. But this is a grand underestimate. There could in fact be 10,000. The Human Cell Atlas project aims to identify every type and subtype of cell in every tissue of the body - a massive endeavour which, the cell mappers argue, will have profound benefits for medicine.
Adam Rutherford also talks to zoological archaeologist Angela Perri whose research is aimed at discovering when our ancestors first started to use dogs as 'hunting' technology. Her work involves joining hunts with dogs in the modern day as well as traditional archaeological field work.
He also explores the science behind exploding smart phone batteries and the new international climate agreement to rid the world of hydrofluorocarbons.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello you this is the podcast version of Inside Science from BBC Radio 4 first |
| 0:03.8 | broadcast on the 20th of October 2016 I'm Adam Rutherford we're just recording this |
| 0:10.4 | after lunch on the 20th and we've just heard that the XO Mars |
| 0:14.3 | lander craft Sciapparelli has crashed onto the surface of Mars, unplanned. The |
| 0:19.6 | first reports are saying that the parachute opened too early. Now we discussed it on last |
| 0:24.4 | week's program and on next week's show we will have a better idea of what went wrong. |
| 0:28.4 | So stay tuned. Now onwards and upwards more information at BBC.co. |
| 0:32.9 | UK slash Radio 4. |
| 0:34.9 | Scientists take on the most complex jigsaw puzzle ever undertaken. |
| 0:38.8 | The tens of trillions of cells of your body |
| 0:41.3 | all mapped out to build a picture of you. In the news, smartphones |
| 0:45.5 | keep exploding or catching fire so we're getting to the bottom of why this |
| 0:49.2 | happens and more importantly why phone batteries seem to die the death after just a couple of years. |
| 0:55.0 | And they're our best friends apparently but dogs have been our hunting companions for 9,000 years. |
| 1:01.0 | We go on the trail of the first hunting dogs and their graves. |
| 1:05.0 | But first... |
| 1:06.0 | The amendment and decisions are adopted. |
| 1:11.0 | Rapturous applause in Kig. voted. |
| 1:13.0 | Rapturous applause in Kigali in Rwanda this weekend |
| 1:16.0 | as more than 170 countries agreed |
| 1:19.0 | that a potent type of greenhouse gas |
| 1:21.0 | would begin to be phased out globally over the next decade or so. |
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