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The Naked Scientists Podcast

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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6960 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

100 years since Rutherford split the atom, we investigate the secrets of the building blocks of our Universe. How can we harness the energy locked inside these particles, how have scientists been engineering brand new elements, and are we all the children of starlight? Plus, news of an anti-aging protein, a dinosaur family tree shake up and a new technique which can create millions of stem cells. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

On Britain streets, you unknowingly see, extraordinary heroes who look just like me.

0:07.0

We live without capes or superpowers.

0:10.0

We're the everyday heroes who save the hour a nurse a teacher a cabby a mate pride of

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Britain's here it's time to celebrate do you know an everyday hero who deserves

0:22.4

recognition visit pride of Britain dot com Do you know an everyday hero who deserves recognition?

0:23.0

Visit pride of Britain.com and nominate them today.

0:26.0

T.S.B. proud partners of the Pride of Britain Awards.

0:30.0

Hello everyone and thank you as ever for listening to our program each week.

0:37.0

The purpose of this announcement is to let you know how we got on with the donation drive that we ran over Christmas. This was to raise funds for two purposes,

0:45.0

one to help us to meet the costs of producing this show each year, and two, to rebuild our website,

0:51.0

which, unlike our radio programs and our podcasts was not going to win

0:55.1

us any awards anytime soon. Well thanks to your generosity we raised close to

1:00.4

10,000 pounds and we've invested that money in a brand new website that's now complete and it's wonderfully

1:06.7

easy to use.

1:08.1

Do please take a look, it's at the naked scientist.com, all of the programs we've made over the years are there and free to download

1:14.0

as well as hundreds of science articles and features

1:17.0

penned by researchers from all over the world.

1:19.0

Also, the discussion forum has had a major makeover too. We hope you like it. I do have a list of the

1:27.1

names of all of you who so kindly helped us and where possible I will be writing to you personally

1:32.3

as soon as I can to thank you.

1:35.1

And if you didn't manage to make a donation before, but you would still like to, then the

1:39.3

system is still operating and you can find it at naked scientist

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