And the Hello, welcome to the naked scientist with me Chris Smith and also with Cat Arnie.

This week it's all about the future of travel and we've got our very own drone in the studio to fly around.

We've also road tested the latest driverless cars, we look at the future of flight and 2015's hottest holiday destination, space.

Plus we shine a new light on diabetes research.

There's a cheap and quick test for Ebola and how physics can prevent in growing toenails.

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. First up, Naurovirus. Known as the winter vomiting bug, many of us may be familiar with this

pesky pathogen which leads to millions of people being locked

to lavatory seats for much longer than they like every year. Currently there is

no way to treat it but now Professor Ian Goodfellow from the University of

Cambridge has been investigating a new drug called

Faviir which is more normally used to treat flu, but which may have potential applications

for both norovirus and even Ebola. The drug causes the virus to mutate itself, quite literally,

to death.

Ian's with us now. Hello Ian.

Hi, Chris. First of all, give us a quick Norovirus. What actually is it and how does it infect people

and so on? So noirovirus is probably the most common cause of a gastrantritis in the

UK so it's a stomach bug and it causes vomiting and diarrhea it infect individuals through the fecal oral route or through aerosolized

vomit.

Why is there currently no treatment or no vaccine for it?

Human neurovirus is we cannot grow them in the laboratory, so it makes it very, very difficult

to understand the biology of these viruses, and that's probably the main reason we don't

have vaccines or antivirals as yet.

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