Q&A: COVID-19, Solar Storms & Ancient Teeth

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

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What happens if you overwater a plant? How does gravity actually work? And should we be cancelling mass events to contain the coronavirus? It's Q&A time on the show, and this week Phil Sansom is joined by a brainy panel of experts: plant biologist Nadia Radzman, particle physicist Chris Rogers, bioarchaeologist Emma Pomeroy, and virologist and Naked Scientist Chris Smith. Prepare to have your curiosity satisfied... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.3	Hello.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Welcome.
0:06.3	Science.
0:09.3	And that is to say physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, welcome to the naked scientists. I'm Phil Sansom and this is the show where we bring
0:21.1	you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine.
0:24.7	And this week it's Q&A time coming up on the show how gravity actually works, prehistoric
0:29.6	dental issues and breaking down the spread of the coronavirus.
0:33.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. But before we get into the questions, let's meet our panel. We've got Nadia
0:49.0	Radzman, a plant biologist, Chris Rogers, a physicist, Emma Pomeroy, bioarchiologist and Chris Smith
0:54.4	Verologist. Let's start with Nadia. Hi Nadia, welcome.
0:58.0	Hello. What have you brought in to show us today to start with? I have a picture here of a part of a plan that I'm studying.
1:07.4	This particular crop is actually a forgotten crop or underutilized or another term for it is often crop which is a crop that
1:17.1	used to be consumed traditionally in this case in Africa.
1:21.1	Would you like me to describe it for you? Yeah. Because this looks like a bunch of roots and some of the roots have got bulgy bits on them. So it's almost like a root has swollen up and become very fat. How big are these things Nardia? A little bit bigger than an apple I would say. Oh they're quite large then can I
1:37.6	hazard a guess? What do you reckon Emma what do you reckon those are? They look a little bit
1:40.9	like sweet potato or something like that.
1:44.0	The yams.
1:45.0	I was going to say potato.
1:46.0	Yeah, is it yam or potato or something?
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