Periodic Table: 150 Au Years

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

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week we're celebrating 150 years of the Periodic Table - we'll find out how scientists uncovered the elements in the first place and what other mysterious materials may be waiting to be discovered. Plus a way to power up the body's own morphine-like chemicals, how microbes are gluing microplastics back together in the ocean, and post-Valentine's Day, some dating do's and dating dont's to bear in mind for next year! 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 physics, medicine,
0:11.0	nature, space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, this week we're celebrating 150 years of the periodic table.
0:20.0	We'll find out how scientists uncovered the elements in the first place and what other mysterious materials are just waiting to be discovered
0:27.4	Plus a way to power up the body's own morphine-like chemicals
0:31.2	How microbes are gluing microplastics back together in the ocean, and post-Valentine's
0:36.6	day some dating doos and don't to bear in mind for next year.
0:40.5	I'm Katie Hayler.
0:41.5	I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked Sciences.
0:44.4	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK. Now millions of people are affected by chronic pain and despite this
1:00.0	we're not very good at treating it but a discovery by scientists in France that's enabled them to power up the pain-killing
1:06.2	effect of the body's natural morphine-like chemicals and target the effect to where
1:11.2	in the body it's needed means we might be about to become much better
1:14.4	as the old saying goes at hitting pain where it hurts.
1:18.6	Peter McNaughton is a pain specialist at King's College London.
1:22.3	He wasn't involved in the new study but he
1:24.1	agreed to take a look at the paper and he told Chris all about it.
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