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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2011

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week we're getting inside the workings of the next generation of chips that are set to pack a bigger computing-punch but at a fraction of the energy-expenditure of todays' models: CTO Mike Muller joins us to explain the revolutionary technology that leading microprocessor-maker ARM is developing. Also, energy-efficient world-wide computing - we find out how distributing data-processing demands around the planet can turn waste energy into useful computations, simultaneously saving CO2 emissions, and in the news this week, a new malarial mosquito threat, rejection-free artificial blood... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science, the naked scientists. Hello, it's Sunday February the 6th, 2011. Welcome to the Naked scientist with me, Chris Smith.
0:22.8	And with me, Sarah Koste Perry.
0:25.0	Now this week, the future of computing will discover what the computer chips of tomorrow will be like,
0:31.0	and with Valentine's Day around the corner.
0:33.0	We'll also find out what's more environmentally friendly, an e-card, which has been sent by a computer,
0:38.0	or the more traditional variety that's sent by Romail.
0:42.0	Also news of how researchers have discovered a way to grow new arteries to replace damaged blood vessels
0:47.6	and how Australian scientists have created an electrical thinking cap that can make people
0:52.1	solve maths problems that they couldn't do before.
0:54.8	And you might just need that cap to find out surprised when you find out shortly what it is.
1:12.0	If you want to get in touch through
1:13.4	Twitter you can tweet at naked scientists you can write on our Facebook page
1:17.1	that's the naked scientist.com forward slash Facebook or you can drop us an email to
1:22.2	Chris at the naked Scientist.com.
1:25.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UK Fast, the UK's best hosting provider on the web at UKfast.co. UK.
1:35.0	This is the Naked Scientist with Chris Smith and with Sarah Koster Perry and let's kick off with a look at some of this week's top science story.
1:46.4	Sarah what have you got for us?
1:47.4	Well I've got a story that was published in the journal Science this week from
1:52.1	Michelle Reeler and her colleagues and they've
1:54.3	actually found a new subspecies of mosquito that is very susceptible to the most
1:59.9	dangerous form of malaria parasite. So most of what we currently know about the mosquitoes that live in this particular area of West Africa that they studied is because
2:10.3	researchers go into people's houses and they capture the adult mosquitoes in the houses.
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