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Hello and welcome to the naked scientists, the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs

in science, technology and medicine. With me Adam Murphy?

And with me Chris Smith this week, can you catch COVID twice?

We'll find out also how microwaving an insecticide makes it 12 times more powerful and

the asteroid that might actually be an old moon rocket.

Plus we're talking trees from how they grow to the oldest ones on earth and the

answer to that will surprise you to how they die and what trees can do for our city. and the naked

answer to that will surprise you to how they die and what trees can do for our cities.

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. UK. charged weak on the coronavirus front hasn't it? In many countries rates of

the infection are surging again and even in Germany a nation with a strong

track record of controlling the coronavirus they're currently seeing numbers

approaching 10,000 cases a day. Here in the UK, our

government have unveiled their tier system for managing outbreaks at a more

local level, but cases are still rising at the moment and some voices are calling for another national

lockdown. The overall long-term strategy as far as we can tell is to keep the disease

activity as low as possible until such time as we have a vaccine, assuming that does happen, so we can protect the most

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