Senses Month: A Taste of Science
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, so, so skin. |
| 0:02.0 | Keep your good going and breeze through busy days with mullah lights. |
| 0:08.0 | Now with a new thicker recipe with Vitamin B6 and Vitamin D. Oh go on then. Mull a light get the good going. I have you loud and clear. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:28.0 | Science. |
| 0:31.0 | And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, space, time, the brain, life, the universe. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello, this month we're exploring the science of our special senses. |
| 0:42.0 | So far, we've heard how our ears work, we've looked |
| 0:45.2 | the visual system in the eye, and this week we're getting our teeth into the science of taste. |
| 0:49.7 | Plus, news of a discovery that could rewrite the story of human origins, |
| 0:54.0 | how some antibiotics can also block viruses, |
| 0:57.0 | and how ants keep infections at bay in their colonies. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Georgia Mills. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Chris Smith, and this is the Naked Scientists. |
| 1:04.4 | The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. The story of how and when the first anatomically modern humans migrated out of Africa and |
| 1:22.1 | spread around the world has been challenged |
| 1:24.3 | this week by a new fossil discovery from Saudi Arabia. |
| 1:28.0 | A bone from a middle finger, together with hundreds of stone tools, has been uncovered and dated to a time much earlier |
| 1:34.8 | than scientists have believed that our ancestors first left the African continent. |
| 1:39.7 | Georgia spoke with study author Hugh Grocut. |
| 1:42.8 | The textbook view of human origins at the moment suggests that our species Homo sapiens |
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