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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Outnumbered: Are your bacteria controlling you?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, why we're passengers in our own bodies, outnumbered by our resident bacteria. We explore how these bugs can alter your brain and behaviour, and "trans-poo-sion": the poo-transplant process that might save your life! Plus, why the chances of ET existing have rocketed this week, and signs that birds count the same way we do... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

So, so, so skin.

0:02.0

Keep your good going and breeze through busy days with mullah lights.

0:08.0

Now with a new thicker recipe with Vitamin B6 and Vitamin D. Or go on then? Mull a light, get the good going. You're going to. Hello welcome to the naked scientist with me Chris Smith and also with Cat Arnie. This week why we're just

0:44.8

passengers in our own bodies outnumbered by our resident bacteria? How these bugs can

0:49.6

alter your brain and your behavior and transpusion the poo transplant process that might one day save your life.

0:56.6

Plus why the chances of ET existing rocketed this week and how birds count in exactly the same way it seems that we do.

1:05.4

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. The likelihood of the existence of extraterrestrial life, that's aliens to you and me,

1:21.0

increased dramatically this week when astronomers

1:23.5

announced the discovery of a planetary system with four small rocky Earth-sized

1:27.7

planets around it. Even more impressive is that they're over 11 billion

1:32.0

years old.

1:33.0

Previously, scientists thought rocky and potentially life-sustaining planets like these

1:37.0

couldn't exist this early in the history of the universe.

1:40.0

From Birmingham University, Yarg Campant.

1:43.0

In this paper we announce the discovery of a fascinating planetary system

1:50.0

with five Earth-sized planets the date back to the dawn of the galaxy.

1:56.7

The innermost planets has a size similar to that of mercury, and its size has been measured with a precision of only a few tens of miles.

2:07.2

That's an impressive technological achievements.

2:11.6

The three intermediate planets are the size of Mars and the outermost planets

2:16.7

is slightly smaller than Venus.

2:20.3

When you say the dawn of the galaxy, how old is that and which galaxy are we talking about here?

2:25.0

We're talking about our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and the age of this system has been estimated at an impressive 11 billion years. The universe itself as an estimated

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