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BBC Inside Science

Why do we want to go back to the Moon?

BBC Inside Science

BBC

Technology, Science

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Two plucky spacecraft, one Russian and one Indian, are currently blasting towards the Moon’s South Pole. Both Russia’s Luna-25 and India’s Chandrayaan-3 are due to touch down next week. They’re heading to that particular region of the Moon in order to hunt for water, the presence of which could have huge implications for our further exploration of the Solar System. Victoria Gill talks to Dr Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, to find out more. Victoria then heads to the Lake District to witness the release of water voles into the ecosystem. Next up, Professor Lewis Griffin, a computer scientist from University College London, tells us how bad we are at distinguishing between real and deepfake voices. He then reveals what implications this might have for scams. Finally, Dr Helen Pilcher tells us all about the intriguing ways that animals can bend time. You can find out more in her book, How Nature Keeps Time. Presenter: Victoria Gill Producer: Hannah Robins Content producer: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell Research: Patrick Hughes Editor: Richard Collings

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:04.9

Hello, you lovely curious minded people.

0:07.4

This is the podcast edition of BBC Inside Science, first broadcast on the 17th of August,

0:12.8

2023.

0:13.8

I'm Victoria Gill.

0:15.4

And this week we're playing a particularly unsettling game of Spot the Difference.

0:19.9

So listen carefully, only one of the three voices you're about to hear is a real human.

0:25.0

So is it this one?

0:26.0

Attempting to identify those individuals who might prove a danger to the president.

0:31.2

Or this?

0:32.2

The new instructions require FBI agents to report immediately information concerning

0:38.2

quote, or maybe this one, to plan and develop a workable and efficient automated file and

0:44.9

retrieval system end quote.

0:47.5

How confident are you that you can tell the real person from the machine?

0:51.1

Well, I'm going to be finding out about new research that asks exactly that.

0:55.5

Now well, listeners can distinguish a real person's voice from artificial intelligence,

1:00.6

AI mimicking human speech.

1:03.2

So stay tuned to find out more because we'll also reveal which clip was real and which

1:07.6

were fake.

1:09.3

Also.

1:10.3

I have a distress.

1:13.7

Waterfall territory is very blocky.

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