Malaria fight in jeopardy, and bone collecting caterpillars
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All engine running. |
| 0:03.3 | 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... |
| 0:09.2 | Discovery is... |
| 0:09.8 | Advances. |
| 0:10.3 | Research. |
| 0:11.5 | Technology. |
| 0:12.4 | Unbelievable. |
| 0:13.4 | Without further ado, this is The Naked Scientists. |
| 0:17.4 | Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientist's podcast. |
| 0:19.7 | This is the program that brings you the biggest breakthroughs and talks to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology and medicine. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm Chris Smith, and coming up, World Malaria Day, and why overseas aid cuts in the US are threatening to cause a crisis, |
| 0:35.9 | the carnivorous caterpillar dubbed the bone collector |
| 0:38.7 | that steals from spiders, and the biotechnologist attempting to feed astronauts better in space. |
| 0:45.8 | From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the naked scientists. |
| 1:04.0 | The 25th of April is World Malaria Day. |
| 1:07.0 | It's an opportunity to examine a devastating disease that still claims over half a million lives every year, |
| 1:10.3 | most of them young children |
| 1:11.3 | in Africa. It comes as the World Health Organisation, though, warn that huge funding cuts |
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