Q&A Space Surgery in Scotland

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

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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It's time for our Q&A, this time from Edinburgh! This week, what happens if you get pregant in space? How do chemists make new molecules? And how do antidepressants work? Chris Smith is joined by our panel of experts to answer your questions: Space doctor Christina Mackaill, geologist John Underhill, chemist Lee Cronin and psychiatrist Stephen Lawrie. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Hello.
0:06.3	Welcome.
0:07.3	H.
0:08.3	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or time, the brain, life, the universe.
0:17.0	This week, what do you do if you get pregnant in space? How do antidepressants work? And how do we know how old our planet is? We're taking on the
0:26.0	science questions you've been sending into us. Hello I'm Chris Smith and this is
0:30.2	the Naked Scientists. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:40.0	So here we are up in Edinburgh and so I have a bunch of people who are from
0:47.1	north of the border who kindly agreed to come on the program and answer
0:49.7	your question. So let me introduce them to you. Sitting to my left is Christina
0:53.4	Michael who actually she says here researcher in extraterrestrial medicine. That sounds
0:59.1	inciting. What does that actually involve her? You really an E.T. Doctor?
1:01.8	Yes. No. So it's about how the body
1:05.1	adapts in space and looking after astronauts health and things like that because of course
1:08.4	that's going up the agenda isn't it because not just because we have an international
1:11.8	space station and people setting records for
1:13.7	the length of human habitation in space, but also the idea of us traveling to, for instance, Mars,
1:19.1	which people are saying is going to happen within our lifetimes.
1:21.3	Yeah, it will happen and we need to be prepared for that and
1:24.0	the health effects it will have so it's interesting. So if you want to know
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