Time: It's all relative
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I have you loud and clear. |
| 0:04.3 | Hello. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:07.3 | H. |
| 0:08.3 | Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, |
| 0:12.8 | or time, brain, life, the universe. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello, welcome to the naked scientist. |
| 0:18.6 | This is the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science |
| 0:21.8 | and technology, with me with me Chris Smith and with |
| 0:23.9 | Adam Murphy and this week with the leap year upon us and the rare appearance of |
| 0:27.8 | February 29th we are marking time to find out how time works from why time seems to go faster when we're older |
| 0:34.4 | to the mind-bending warping of time around black holes. |
| 0:37.4 | Plus scientists develop a way to produce electricity from, get this, thin air, |
| 0:42.4 | how old mattresses are feeding refugees and why bringing |
| 0:45.9 | back beavers might solve some of our flooding problems. The Naked Scientists |
| 0:50.5 | podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK. |
| 0:55.0 | UK. |
| 0:57.0 | First up, engineers and microbiologists have collaborated to invent a device that generates |
| 1:06.4 | electricity out of literally thin air. They call this incredible bit of tech the Air Gen, |
| 1:12.1 | and it relies on tiny strands of protein |
| 1:14.1 | farmed from bacteria. These so-called protein nanowires absorb trace amounts of |
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