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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Under Your Skin

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, The Naked Scientists get under the skin of skin. Hear about the new method to treat burn victims, the electronic tattoo that can tell if you've got flu and how to keep your skin in good shape. Plus, in the news this week, the diabetes drug that's treating leukaemia, how bird feeders are affecting beak length, and how the challenge of landing space probes now keep your crisps crunchy. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

I have you loud and clear.

0:03.2

Hello.

0:04.2

Hello.

0:05.2

Welcome.

0:06.2

Science.

0:09.2

And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, the brain, life, the universe.

0:16.2

This week we're getting under the skin of skin.

0:19.1

We'll be hearing about a new method to treat burn victims, the electronic tattoo that can tell you if you've got

0:24.2

flu and how we can all keep our skin in good shape.

0:27.5

Plus in the news this week, the diabetes drug that's treating leukemia, how bird feeders are affecting beak length, and how the challenge

0:36.0

of landing space probes now keeps your crisps crunchy.

0:40.6

I'm Grey Jackson.

0:41.6

I'm G

0:47.4

Gere Jackson. I'm Jordan Mills and you're listening to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.

1:03.0

Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein,

1:06.2

their ripples in the fabric of space that move at the speed of light

1:09.7

and are created by huge events like colliding stars or black holes.

1:14.4

Despite the magnitude of these events,

1:16.6

Einstein thought it would be impossible to observe them.

1:20.0

However, a hundred years later,

1:22.1

scientists did find them back in 2015.

1:25.0

This week they announced a fifth detection, but this one is different and I'm hoping my

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