Meteorites: Space Invaders

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What's the difference between a meteorite, meteoroid, a comet and an asteroid? We tell you how to find your own space rock here on Earth, and hear from a scientists tracking where space rocks come down in the Australian outback. Plus, why quinoa could feed the world in future, and is vaping safer than smoking, or a gateway for a fresh legion of teen smokers? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:04.0	Hello.
0:05.0	Hello.
0:06.0	Welcome.
0:07.0	Science and that is the
0:11.0	physics medicine, nature or space, time, nature,
0:13.0	time, the brain, life, the universe.
0:16.0	This week we are on a quest to find out more about meteorites
0:20.0	and the building blocks of our solar system.
0:22.0	Before that though could
0:22.8	Kienwa be the future of food security, are e-cigarettes safer than smoking?
0:27.3	And what's it like to hear again after years of silence?
0:31.2	Hello I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked
0:34.9	Scientists. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK. has doubled in the last five years and now it stands at about 15% of adults.
0:55.8	Because e-cigarette's work by evaporating a nicotine-rich liquid to produce the vapor rather
0:59.9	than by burning tobacco, some people regard them as a much safer alternative to
1:04.2	conventional smoking, but are they safer and might the perception of safety encourage
1:10.0	non-smokers to take up the habit. Well this week two papers have been
1:14.0	published examining these possibilities one by Richard Meek who's at the
1:17.4	University of Michigan and the other by Leon Cherhab from University College
1:21.4	London. Leon First.
1:23.0	In our study we're interested to have a look at the relative risk of using e-cigarettes compared with standard conventional cigarettes.
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