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And that is the same physics medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.

This week we're going global as we investigate language,

how it's developed, whether it can boost your brain and even affect your behavior.

Plus the rodents that provide new information for stroke therapy, exercise in a pill,

and how very hungry caterpillars could solve our plastic problem.

I'm Tim Revel.

I'm Georgia Mills and this is the Naked Scientists.

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First up is the condition that occurs every two seconds worldwide and is the second largest

cause of death, stroke. When a stroke happens, the most important tissues of our body, the

brain and heart are starved of oxygen, causing cell damage.

To improve therapies for stroke patients, we need to understand how the human body copes

without oxygen, and one researcher at the University of Cambridge thinks he may have found the answer, in the form of a small rodent called a naked mole rat.

Dr Ewen Singen Smith and his colleagues were able to identify a new mechanism used by the naked Morats to maintain an energy

supply to the cells in their body without using oxygen.

He told Tom Crawford more about these fascinating creatures.

Politely one can describe them as a cocktail sausage with legs and teeth.

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