Mapping the Milky Way
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I have you loud and clear. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:07.0 | Science and that is the same physics medicine, |
| 0:12.0 | nature or space time, brain, life, the universe. |
| 0:17.0 | This week, Cambridge's key role in the mission to map the Milky Way. |
| 0:22.0 | It can ultimately measure the position of a star. in the mission to map the Milky Way. |
| 0:22.5 | It can ultimately measure the position of a star |
| 0:25.2 | to the equivalent accuracy of measuring the thickness |
| 0:28.0 | of a human hair at a distance of about 1,000 kilometers. |
| 0:32.0 | So it's pretty accurate. |
| 0:34.0 | We learn how the Gea Space Telescope |
| 0:36.0 | is pinpointing the positions of a billion stars in our galaxy. |
| 0:40.0 | Plus, news of a net which will leave Mozzie's dead or infertile, the DNA double-heelix discovery, |
| 0:48.0 | and can the moon cause earthquakes? |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Ginny Smith. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Chris Smith, and you're listening to The Naked Scientists. |
| 0:56.0 | The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. UK. |
| 1:09.0 | First this week insecticide treated bed nets are the most important tool in the fight against malaria, |
| 1:16.0 | with chemicals called pyretheroids being the main pesticide used to treat them. |
| 1:21.3 | But frustratingly, many mosquito populations have now developed resistance to pyroids, so scientists |
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