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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Superconductivity and Cooling Devices

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2006

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week we take a look at some super cool science, as Tim Jackson describes how superconductors work, what they are, and how superconductors are helping astronomers get a clearer view of the universe. Also on the show, Ed Tarte discusses applications of superconductors and SQUIDS in the non-invasive discovery of heart defects and observing brain activity in the unborn foetus, and Science Graduate of the Year Alex Mischenko talks about his new environmentally friendly cooling device. In Kitchen Science, Derek Thorne and Ted Forgan show superconductivity in action with a frying pan, some... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

0:37.0

Hello and welcome to this week's edition of the naked scientist with me Chris Smith and with Helen Scales.

0:45.5

Hi Chris. Researchers this week have discovered the largest ever bird skull.

0:50.0

It's nearly a meter long and it belonged to a meat-eating bird nearly three meters tall

0:54.0

find out about that fearsome beast in just a few minutes. I've been down to Buckingham Palace

0:58.0

to visit the Queen this week. Christopher Christopher, where have you been?

1:00.4

Why to the palace to visit the Queen they say? I'll be bringing you a report that I recorded live there on location and also how Wales have

1:07.5

gone into the Guinness Book of Records this week as officially the world's deepest divers.

1:12.0

And also this week we're finding out about the science of the super cool.

1:15.3

How low can you go?

1:17.6

As well as finding out what superconductors are and how they work, we'll be discovering

1:21.2

how superconductors can help us appear deeper into space than ever before,

1:24.8

how they can help us watch individual nerve cells working in the brain,

1:28.2

and how researchers can now trace the flow of electricity around the heart of a baby developing inside its mother.

1:34.0

And if you're in the mood to win something tonight, we've got a fabulous electronics kit to give away.

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