Senses Month: Tackling Touch

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, The Naked Scientists' senses month comes to a close as we tackle touch: how we develop a sense of touch, getting tactile when shopping and the secret to the perfect hug. Plus, making greener concrete and why bird populations are dropping in the South of England... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.0	Hello.
0:04.0	Hello.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	Science.
0:08.0	And that is the same physics,
0:10.0	medicine,
0:11.0	nature,
0:12.0	time, the brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, this week the Naked Scientists Since Month comes to a close as we get to grips with touch.
0:21.0	Plus making greener concrete and how climate change could be
0:24.3	affecting birds. I'm Katie Haler. I'm Georgia Mills and this is the Naked
0:28.6	Scientists. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:35.0	First up in the news it's a big anniversary at the moment because 65 years ago
0:45.4	the journal Nature published Watson and Crick's historic paper revealing the
0:49.2	structure of DNA or as James Watson put it, the secret of life.
0:54.1	Since then, molecular biology has taken the world by storm.
0:57.7	The NHS is busy reading the genetic codes of 100,000 patients,
1:01.7	and scientists in America have announced ambitious plans to sequence the DNA of all life on Earth.
1:07.0	So Katie's been taking a look at two other recent DNA developments.
1:14.0	The iconic double helix.
1:16.0	It's like an extravagant staircase with phosphate sugar railings
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