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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Senses Month: A Taste of Science

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This month we're exploring the science of our senses. So far we've heard how our ears work, looked the visual system in the eye, and this week, we're getting our teeth into the science of taste. Plus news of a discovery that could re-write the story of human origins, how some antibiotics can also block viruses, and how ants keep infections at bay in their colonies. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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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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