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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this edition of The Naked Scientists, we look back at another brilliant year of science and select some of our favourite stories to come out of it... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:03.1	Absolutely genius.
0:04.1	Welcome.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:05.9	This is the show where we bring you science.
0:07.7	What that essentially means is discovery is advanced.
0:10.2	Research.
0:11.5	Technology.
0:12.4	Unbelievable.
0:13.4	Without further ado, this is the naked scientists.
0:17.4	Hello and welcome to the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science technology
0:21.6	and medicine with me Will Tingle.
0:24.1	From everyone here at The Naked Scientist, we hope you're ready for a happy Christmas
0:27.5	if you celebrate that sort of thing and are looking forward to the new year.
0:31.0	In this episode, we're taking a look back at the year that was 2024 and reliving
0:35.7	some of the outstanding scientific stories that came out of it.
0:39.1	Everything from plague pits to AI to ET.
0:42.7	From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education,
0:46.6	this is the Naked Scientists.
1:06.1	We begin I look back at 2024 in January, when we reported on the ancient DNA of almost 300 people who lived in Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death,
1:11.8	the plague that repeatedly rampaged across medieval England and killed as much as a third of Europe's population.
1:16.5	For a long time, it was thought that such a shocking drop in numbers would have changed the genetics of the continent as survivors passed on their resistant genes. Well, perhaps not,
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