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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week, the story of how humankind has gazed into space, from the first basic telescopes to what gravitational waves are now revealing about the workings of black holes. Plus, in the news, evidence that people are catching COVID again, what's the risk of coronavirus infection on an aeroplane, and bee venom to treat breast cancer... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science.
0:09.2	And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.3	Hello, this is the naked scientist, and this is the show that keeps you in touch with the
0:20.4	latest science, technology, and medicine with me, Chris Smith.
0:24.0	And I'm Adam Murphy. This week, evidence that people are catching COVID
0:28.0	again, what's the risk of coronavirus infection on an aeroplane and bee venom to treat breast cancer.
0:35.0	Plus the story of how humankind has gazed into space from the first basic telescopes to
0:40.3	what gravitational waves are now revealing about the workings of black holes.
0:44.8	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. First up doctors in Hong Kong have reported the first confirmed case of someone
1:01.5	being re-infected with the new coronavirus.
1:05.0	Until now, it's been an open question whether or not getting COVID and then recovering
1:09.8	makes you immune or not.
1:11.3	But this case, along with others that are now surfacing, including a man in the
1:14.9	US suggests otherwise. Phil Sansom asked Verologist Jeremy Rossman for his thoughts.
1:20.3	What we've seen recently from Hong Kong and then some data in the US is when the
1:28.1	person was initially infected they actually sequenced the virus and then when the person was sick again
1:36.5	they sequenced the virus again and by comparing the genome of those two virus samples they were able to say that in fact
1:47.1	this was not one long infection but was an infection with two different variants of COVID-19 so we can now
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