Q&A: How did we outpace the big bang?

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

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week, it is time to put your questions to a panel of excellent experts in one of our Q&A shows! We are going to be investigating how we track disease outbreaks, why our ears go pop, and why neanderthal DNA makes some of us more susceptible to diseases like COVID. Plus, we have a science quiz based on the World Cup. See how you fare against our experts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:04.0	running.
0:05.0	I'm so genius.
0:06.0	Welcome.
0:07.0	This is the show where we bring science.
0:09.0	What that essentially means is discovery is
0:11.0	advances, research, technology, unbelievable. is scientists the program that brings you the latest in science, technology and medicine.
0:24.7	I'm Chris Smith and in the show this week your questions are going under our microscope
0:29.0	including why it the Neanderthal in us may alter our susceptibility to COVID-19, how black holes work, and why do we run
0:36.0	temperatures when we get ill? Plus there's going to be our customary quiz at half time
0:40.7	when we'll test the metal of our team. With me are an astronomer, an archaeologist, a global
0:45.9	health specialist and a physicist. The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK.
0:53.0	And on this world Cup kicking off week we will kick off with a look at our lineup.
1:07.5	Emma Pomeroy is an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge.
1:10.5	She has worked on our close relatives. Those are the Neanderthals, and she's also
1:14.7	interested in how susceptibility to different diseases that we see today evolved in the past.
1:20.6	Hello Emma, welcome to the program.
1:22.4	It's been a huge year I want to say for people
1:25.4	interested in Neanderthals hasn't it? Especially in the last few months because we've
1:28.5	seen a Nobel Prize for the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome.
1:33.6	We also saw that amazing paper where, again,
1:36.4	genomics had been brought to bear against people living in caves,
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