All engine running.

Absolutely genius.

Get this.

Welcome.

This is the show where we bring you science.

What that essentially means is.

Discovery is,

sources, questions, research, technology, unbelievable.

Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists.

Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientists, the program where we strive

to bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine.

I'm Chris Smith.

And this week the spike in hooping cough cases that's occurring across Europe,

but what's behind it, also how scientists are set to look for life on an icy moon of Jupiter

and the new artificially intelligent gadget to make roads safer for cyclists.

From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, which is also known as

Patas has been particularly acute in the Czech Republic which has recorded its

highest number of cases since the 1960s. The UK is also seeing an uptick in cases. But why is this? Adam Finn is Professor of Pediatrics

at Bristol Medical School.

So this bug, a bacterium that lives in people's noses and mouths and throats, and it passes itself

around between people by making them cough.

It's quite common in the population, people who get a persistent cough that goes on for two or

...