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The Naked Scientists Podcast

QnA: Sperm Races and Monkey Business

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, can science help us to quit our vices? Do any animals have accents? And how big can a planet get? Joining Chris Smith to tackle your sci-curious questions was physicist Jess Wade, planetary geologist David Rothery, neuroscientist Bianca Jupp and zoologist Jacob Dunn. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

I have you loud and clear.

0:03.6

Hello.

0:04.6

Hello.

0:05.6

Welcome.

0:06.6

Science and that is to say physics medicine, nature or space space, time, brain, life, the universe.

0:16.5

This week can science help us to quit our vices?

0:19.8

Do animals have accents like us humans do?

0:22.3

And how big can a planet get.

0:25.0

We're taking on the science questions you've been sending in.

0:27.8

Hello, I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked Scientists.

0:31.5

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.

0:36.5

Let me introduce the fine-brained panel of people who are going to help answer your

0:47.1

questions this week. With us is Jess Wade. She's a physicist at Imperial College in

0:51.9

London and Jess you work on LEDs. What do you do with them?

0:55.8

I use light emitting diodes based on carbon materials so organic semiconductors not

1:01.3

conventional semiconductors and not conventional semiconductors.

1:03.1

And with them we're trying to do some really cool things

1:05.2

with the polarisation of the light that's submitted

1:07.7

so that we can use them for next generation displays.

1:10.4

What does that mean in practical terms,

1:12.4

polarization of the light? How does that mean in practical terms? Polarization of the light?

1:14.0

How does that work?

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