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Hello, welcome to this week's Naked Scientists,

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coming up as the UK rejoins the EU Horizon research program we hear from the

Secretary of State for science, innovation and Technology and what she sees as the benefits from

this new deal.

Also, scientists discover a way to get lithium batteries to charge up faster and perform better

in the cold and how and why did we humans lose our tails back in history.

From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education,

this is the naked scientists. Up first this week the UK severed ties with Europe's 80 billion pound horizon

research and innovation project following the country's exit from the EU

with Brexit. The move provoked great consternation amongst large parts of the

country's scientific community at the time and it has since taken several years

of painstaking negotiations for the UK to finally regain associate membership.

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