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Hello, welcome to the naked scientist, the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs

in science, technology and medicine. With me Chris Smith

and me Adam Murphy coming up the UK becomes the first Western country to approve a

COVID vaccine samples are successfully returned to Earth from an asteroid and how an F1 driver walked away

from what should have been a lethal 137 mile an hour crash.

Also for World AIDS Day we put HIV under the microscope and talk to someone who has actually

been cured and the doctor who cured him. Here how they did it.

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First this week there was cause for celebration as a COVID vaccine became a

regulator-approved reality in the UK.

All the time we've been waiting and hoping for the day when the searchlights of science

would pick out our invisible enemy and give us the power to stop that enemy from

making us ill and now the scientists have done it and they've used

the virus itself to perform a kind of biological Jiu-Jitsu.

And in fact because of that Jiu-Jitsu,

the UK has become the focus of world media attention

as the first Western nation to formally approve a coronavirus vaccine for public use.

Nevertheless, some are questioning why Britain's been able to move so fast.

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