Q&A: Moon Landings and Making Medicine

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

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week's programme, it's Q&A time! Coming up, we'll find out: what can we learn from invisible measurements in space, how scientists discover potential new medicines made by plants and why green energy might be more costly to the consumer... Yep, we're answering science questions you've been sending in! We've assembled the very best experts to help get to the bottom of it all: climate researcher Ella Gilbert, climate economist Gernot Wagner, enthnobotanist Cassandra Quave, and public astronomer Matthew Bothwell... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:03.0	running.
0:04.0	Absolutely genius.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	It's the show where we bring you science.
0:08.0	What that essentially means is.
0:10.0	Discovery is the advances.
0:11.0	Research.
0:12.0	Technology. Unbelievable. Without further technology, unbelievable.
0:13.7	Without further ado, this is the naked scientist.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to the program where we bring you the latest breakthroughs
0:19.8	in science, technology and medicine.
0:21.2	I'm Chris Smith, and in this week's program it's
0:23.3	Q&A time. Coming up we'll find out what can we learn from invisible measurements
0:28.0	out in space how do scientists discover potential new medicines made by plants,
0:33.2	and why might green energy be more costly to the consumer?
0:36.9	Yep, we're answering the science questions
0:38.8	you have been sending in.
0:40.3	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:45.0	Now in a moment we're kicking off with why carbon dioxide turns out to be so
0:56.0	critical for our food supply particularly here in the UK at the moment but
0:59.2	first let's meet the team who are here to be your living and breathing Google
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