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Without further ado, this is the naked scientist.

Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientist, the program where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine with me Chris Smith coming up

Did the black death kill so many in Europe that it left an indelible mark in the population's DNA?

Well new research suggests that tasty theory might in fact be a myth.

Also, could smaller wine measures in pubs help us to tackle our unhealthy relationship with alcohol?

And later on, the Cambridge engineers who are

trying to plug the gaps in the UK's pothold roads with science. From Cambridge

University's Institute of Continuing Education this this is the Naked Scientists.

First this week, archaeologists and geneticists have been looking at the ancient DNA of

almost 300 people who lived in Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death, the plague

that repeatedly rampaged across medieval England between the 14th and

through until the 17th centuries.

They've been able to put to the test a theory that's been around for a while now that says,

because the plague was so vicious carrying off as it did

maybe a third of the population of Europe at the time it had the effect of

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