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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Testing Legal Highs

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2013

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What are legal highs, and how do scientists, doctors and law-makers keep up with new drugs entering the market? Plus, biofuels and why they cost the Earth, the cause of LED droop, a neutron star proves Einstein's theory of general relativity right, and E. coli programmed to pump out diesel. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

The Hello, Hello and this week why biofuels cost the earth how a neutron star proved good old

0:26.1

Einstein right and what our voices tell you about our body shape.

0:31.6

Plus what is a legal high?

0:34.0

And where do these new drugs come from?

0:36.0

How are they detected?

0:38.0

And how do scientists discover what they do to use as brains?

0:41.0

If you'd like to get in touch with us here at the

0:43.4

naked scientist then you can email studio at the naked scientists dot com

0:48.2

you can tweet at naked scientists or you can find us on Facebook.

0:53.0

The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.

0:58.0

And joining Hannah and me for a look at what's making science headlines this week, apart

1:07.9

from the fact that it is the 60th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, are Neil Withers, he's from Chemistry World magazine,

1:15.0

science journalist Mark Peplo,

1:17.0

and Laurie Winkless from the National Physical Laboratory.

1:20.0

Hello to all of you.

1:21.0

Neil, first up, biofuels, a new report is suggesting that the arguments

1:25.7

are not all that compelling.

1:27.1

That's right, there's a report out from Chatham House which suggests that Biofuels, which

1:32.0

are supposed to be a low carbon green alternative to the fuels that we dig out of the ground

1:37.1

aren't as good as we thought they are. Why not?

1:40.7

Unfortunately there's a number of reasons why not.

1:42.5

For a start, they destabilise the food chain because to grow them, you have to use fields that you would

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