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This week, what actually is a weed, how can you remove body odor from a shirt and are scientists

looking for alien life? It's Q&A time we've got a

panel of scientists ready and waiting to tackle the questions you've been sending in.

Hello I'm Isie Clark and this is The Naked Scientists.

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. First let's meet the panel so we've got Howard Griffith from Cambridge

University for your plant pondering. Howard the Claire College Gardens are

absolutely beautiful. Do you have a favorite plant there? Yes I have a favorite giant

there. It's a meta sequoia. It's a relic of millennia and it was discovered in China in the 1930s. So it's a it's a wonderful wonderful tree.

It's pretty massive. It's about 30 meters high I guess.

Oh wow next to him we've got Kit Chapman from Chemistry World for

your Chemical Queries. Now this year is 150 years of the periodic table. Have you

been to any good birthday parties?

I've been to loads of birth birth birth.

All around the world.

My favorite one has to be the one at St Catherine's College in Cambridge.

And there, Yuri O'Ganesin, the only living person who is on the periodic table

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