Rising melanoma rates, and artificial bird's eggs

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

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In today's episode, the rising rates of melanoma skin cancer in the UK - why is this happening? Also, evidence that pregnancy induces epigenetic changes to brain gene expression, researchers produce the world's first artificial bird egg to bring back the Dodo, and an electrical technique to discover the composition of the best coffee... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:03.0	Absolutely genius.
0:04.0	Welcome.
0:04.9	Welcome.
0:05.8	This is the show where we bring you science.
0:07.6	What that essentially means is discovery is advanced.
0:10.5	Research.
0:11.4	Technology.
0:12.3	Unbelievable.
0:13.3	Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists.
0:17.6	Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientist podcast, the show that brings you the biggest breakthroughs
0:21.5	and talks to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology and medicine.
0:26.1	With me, Chris Smith.
0:27.9	Coming up, May smashes heat records in Europe and at the same time, the UK surpasses record rates of skin cancer.
0:35.6	So we'll look more closely at melanoma.
0:38.4	Also, how pregnancy and child rearing changes the female brain.
0:42.8	And what came first?
0:44.0	The chicken or the egg?
0:45.7	Well, thanks to a US company who've cracked artificial egg tech to bring back extinct birds, both.
0:59.0	Thank you. Binct birds, both. After a slow start to summer in some places, much of Europe is now sweltering in
1:03.7	unseasonably warm weather, with temperatures reaching record highs in May for much of the continent.
1:09.2	But it comes as the number of cases of melanoma, which is
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