Marine Month: Lifes A Beach

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Here at The Naked Scientists HQ, it's marine month! Throughout four programmes in July, come dip your toes into all things aquatic as we work our way down to the bottom of the deepest ocean. From building superior sandcastles to the Mexican clam that's invading Europe, we kick things off with a trip to the beach. Plus, how scientists have created the brightest light on Earth, new news on fake news and a drumming bird, nicknamed Ringo. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.0	Hello.
0:04.0	Hello.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	Science.
0:09.0	And that is the same
0:10.0	physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, the brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	This week we are diving into the first episode of a month of marine science
0:20.0	with a trip to the seaside.
0:22.0	We'll be investigating the science behind sand,
0:24.1	how an invader from the Gulf of Mexico has turned up in England and the sponge
0:28.6	that is saving our coastlines from oil spills. Plus how scientists have created the brightest light on earth,
0:35.4	new news on fake news and a drumming bird nicknamed, you guessed it, Ringo.
0:42.1	I'm Chris Smith and this is The Naked Scientists.
0:45.4	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. UK. in three dimensions so doctors can make better and much faster diagnoses,
1:04.6	including even during an operation, has been invented by scientists in the US.
1:09.6	In the new system a flat sheet of light is used to illuminate a series of very thin slices through a block of tissue.
1:16.0	The light that emerges is captured by a camera which builds a three-dimensional picture of the entire specimen.
1:22.0	The University of Washington's Jonathan Lou helped to invent the technique.
1:25.6	The way to think of it would be as a flatbed scanner for tissues. The sample sits on top of a glass plate. All of the optics are underneath, so the light and all of the complexity is hidden underneath that glass plate. All the user has to do is place the tissue on top.
1:42.0	And what sort of tissue
1:44.1	specimens, how big what can you image? So that's something that's rather unique
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