Naked Science Q&A Show

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

🗓️ 13 January 2008

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, we uncover an ideal anti-freeze for ice-cream, find out how scientists grew a new heart in a dish and hear how four simple lifestyle changes could make you live fourteen years longer. Also, we find out about the technology of the future, the tropical Paris of the past and the crystal secret behind the silvery sheen on fish scales. Plus, we asked for your questions and the floodgates opened! Why isn't your urine affected by coloured drinks and what does it mean if it's frothy? What happens when a lake is struck by lightning, and do you weigh less at the equator? Meanwhile, in... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	This is Generation 1, the climate podcast from University College London.
0:05.2	Bringing groundbreaking research from the front lines of climate science,
0:08.5	we tackle climate action in all its forms from policy and activism to AI and urban planning.
0:13.9	I am a tech optimist. I am optimistic that it will help us solve some of the challenges,
0:20.2	especially related to climate
0:21.2	change.
0:22.1	UCL's Generation 1, turning climate science into action. Subscribe now to UCL Generation 1 on your
0:28.1	favorite podcast platform.
0:37.2	It's science, but not as you know it, the naked scientists.
0:42.8	Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists with me, Chris Smith and with Dave Ansel.
0:46.9	Hi Dave.
0:47.3	Hi there.
0:48.0	Now, in the program this week, we're going to be finding out how researchers have come up with a way to make softer ice cream, yum, yum.
0:53.5	Also, how scientists have grown a new heart in a laboratory dish, a multicolored x-rays, how the imaging equivalent of black and white television is going to enter the technical age, and this is going to make imaging and spotting various diseases much easier we think. That's all on the way, Dave. Thanks, Chris. Also coming up in this week's question of the week, we're trying to solve a problem that just won't go away.
1:13.9	I want to know. How is the boomerang works and what's the principal behind that?
1:18.1	We'll be coming to that. We're coming back to that later in the show.
1:21.9	Plus, our technology correspondent, Chris Valence, has been finding out about the next generation of must-have gadgets on
1:28.5	display recently at the LA Consumer Electronics Show, including this wacky item.
1:32.9	There's a new take on that with a picture frame where you could actually have a mobile
1:37.2	phone number, so you could send the pictures to it. Now, I must admit, the evil part of my brain
1:41.9	was thinking about all the pranks you could play.
1:43.5	I'm not sure what I would text into that picture frame, but it certainly sounds like a lot of fun and you could be quite evil with it, couldn't you? Thank you very much, Dave. Now, it is, of course, our science Q&A show this week. So if you've got a science question for us, which is anything science, technology or medicine, do get in touch. Email us, Chris at the naked scientist.com.
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