How fungi shape our world

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Natural Sciences, Engineering, Science, Medicine, Life Sciences, Technology, Health & Fitness, Naked Scientists

4.6 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This episode of The Naked Scientists was brought to you in partnership with the health foundation Wellcome. This week, the first in a two-part series on the hidden world of fungi. What we do - and don't - know about them, and how the fungal landscape is set to shift as our climate changes. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:03.1	Absolutely genius.
0:04.1	Welcome.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:05.9	This is the show where we bring you science.
0:07.5	What that essentially means is discovery.
0:09.8	Advances.
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0:13.4	Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists.
0:17.4	Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientist podcast.
0:20.1	This is the program where we bring you the biggest breakthroughs
0:22.9	and talk to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology and medicine.
0:27.7	I'm Chris Smith.
0:29.0	This week, the first in a two-part series on the hidden world of fungi,
0:33.6	what we do and don't know about them and how the fungal landscape is set to shift as our climate changes.
0:40.3	From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists.
1:01.6	Fungi are older than the dinosaurs, stranger than science fiction and more essential to life on earth than almost everyone realises. They first emerged over a billion years ago in the
1:06.8	planet's oceans and since then they've literally taken over.
1:14.1	From the depths of hot springs to the crust of salty lakes,
1:18.1	and even the innards of burned-out nuclear reactors,
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