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Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientist.

Welcome to the Naked Scientist,

the program that brings you the latest breakthroughs

in science, technology and medicine.

I'm Chris Smith and this week what happens when you put a space scientist interested in looking

for alien life, a geologist studying some of the earliest life on Earth, a psychologist and a linguist, all in a radio studio together.

Well, hopefully, the answer is a really interesting conversation and answers to some of sciences

and your big questions, because that is the lineup for our

naked scientists ask us anything Q&A call in this week where you supply the

questions and we'll provide the answers.

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And with me this week I will McMahon who's a geologist at the University of

Cambridge uses a variety of different geological techniques to study some of our most important periods in history since the planet

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