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				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 03:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>What does it take to power an autonomous vehicle?</itunes:title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malaria has been killing humans for at least fifteen thousand years, and our DNA still carries the scars. Ninety percent of the world's malaria cases are in Africa. But this isn't just a modern health crisis. It's written into our evolutionary history. New research from the University of Cambridge reveals that early humans actively avoided malaria hotspots across Africa for tens of thousands of years. The archaeological record is striking: mosquitoes thrived where people didn't live. Until something changed. Around fifteen thousand years ago, a genetic mutation emerged in West Africa: the... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa remains at the centre of the global malaria crisis. The continent accounts for around 95 percent of all malaria cases, placing immense strain on health systems and costing hundreds of thousands of lives each year. In 2023, there were an estimated 249 million cases globally, with the vast majority in sub-Saharan Africa. So why does malaria persist so strongly here? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Malaria in Africa</itunes:title>
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		<title>Driven to End Malaria: World Malaria Day 2026</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A child dies from malaria roughly every minute. A stark reminder of why urgent action is still needed. "Driven to end malaria, now we can, now we must" is the theme of this year's World Malaria Day marked on the 25th of April. But how realistic is that, and how will it be achived? Chris Smith talks to Ashley Burkett, Director at PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Moths hear plants, and what fingerprints do for touch</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode, how kangaroos alter their postures to store more energy in their Achilles tendons and boost movement efficiency, the moths that make a beeline when they hear plants "talking" to them, tracking how people pick up diseases from their surroundings, the contribution fingerprints make to touch sensation, and some forgotten female scientists are recognised at the Eiffel Tower, in France. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Moths hear plants, and what fingerprints do for touch</itunes:title>
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		<title>Nocebos, and why the eyes of some species stay shut at birth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, compelling evidence for why some species keep their eyes closed for sometimes several weeks after birth, scientists prove that the "nocebo" effect is more potent than a placebo, researchers report what happens when fish eggs and mouse sperm mix, the signals that cells use to measure the lengths of their telomeres, and some clever physics reveals the workings of Darwin's "warm little pond"... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Nocebos, and why the eyes of some species stay shut at birth</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This month, compelling evidence for why some species keep their eyes closed for sometimes several weeks after birth, scientists prove that the "nocebo" effect is more potent than a placebo, researchers report what happens when fish eggs and mouse sperm mix, the signals that cells use to measure the lengths of their telomeres, and some clever physics reveals the workings of Darwin's "warm little pond"... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Aspirin vs Clopidogrel: The blood thinner battle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clots in our blood vessels can be responsible for very serious health problems such as strokes and heart attacks. To combat this, some people at risk of said health problems turn towards blood thinners to prevent this clotting, with the most common household blood thinner being aspirin. The issue with preventing clotting is, should you start to bleed, that bleeding is a lot tougher to stop. Now however, a new drug - clopidogrel - is being touted as coming with the same benefits of aspirin, but few of the drawbacks. To talk us through this matchup, we put in a call to the British Heart... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Aspirin vs Clopidogrel: The blood thinner battle</itunes:title>
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		<title>Public Success, Private Grief: remembering Peter Cowley</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Cowley was an entrepreneur, angel investor, and for many years was the Naked Scientists technology commentator, a role he fell into by accident when we met one evening at an investment meeting. He became a good friend. But his life, in many respects, despite being incredibly successful, was also touched by great sadness: he lost two sons and struggled with alcohol for a time. But he came through it all and lived his life with energy, curiosity, and generosity... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 07:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Public Success, Private Grief: remembering Peter Cowley</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Peter Cowley was an entrepreneur, angel investor, and for many years was the Naked Scientists technology commentator, a role he fell into by accident when we met one evening at an investment meeting. He became a good friend. But his life, in many respects, despite being incredibly successful, was also touched by great sadness: he lost two sons and struggled with alcohol for a time. But he came through it all and lived his life with energy, curiosity, and generosity... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Keeping humans healthy in orbit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With only a few walls between an astronaut and a rapid death, what do we know about the various dangers to the human body during space travel? Chris Smith spoke with Mark Shelhamer, a professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at John Hopkins Medical School - about which space hazards are deemed most pressing for our up-and-coming astronauts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Keeping humans healthy in orbit</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>6:47</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Ants doing gene therapy, and tadpole microbiomes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, as the eLife Podcast hits its century, we hear how getting frog dads to cross-foster tadpoles has revealed the way in which some frogs come by their microbiomes, the ants that do gene therapy, signs that disease causes a breakdown in nutrient exchange between the elements of the microbiome, how fungi reprogram immune cells to cause over-reactions in sepsis, and new insights into how tapeworm larvae in the brain cause seizures... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 05:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Ants doing gene therapy, and tadpole microbiomes</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>43:15</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This month, as the eLife Podcast hits its century, we hear how getting frog dads to cross-foster tadpoles has revealed the way in which some frogs come by their microbiomes, the ants that do gene therapy, signs that disease causes a breakdown in nutrient exchange between the elements of the microbiome, how fungi reprogram immune cells to cause over-reactions in sepsis, and new insights into how tapeworm larvae in the brain cause seizures... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Synthetic sustainable spuds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the global population heads toward 10 billion, the pressure on agriculture is mounting. With that in mind, the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has announced millions of pounds worth of funding for crops enhanced through synthetic biology by designing entirely new chromosomes and chloroplasts, starting with the potato, as Angie Burnett, the ARIA Programme Director and plant biologist leading this initiative explains to Marushka Soobben... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Synthetic sustainable spuds</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>5:59</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As the global population heads toward 10 billion, the pressure on agriculture is mounting. With that in mind, the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has announced millions of pounds worth of funding for crops enhanced through synthetic biology by designing entirely new chromosomes and chloroplasts, starting with the potato, as Angie Burnett, the ARIA Programme Director and plant biologist leading this initiative explains to Marushka Soobben... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Scientists say they've bent spacetime</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1568770</link>
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		<description><![CDATA["Warp speed, Mr Sulu." It's the kind of command we've only heard in science fiction - until now. Did a team of scientists just bend spacetime using nothing but sparks in a lab? That's right - not black holes, not neutron stars - electrical sparks. A new experiment claims to have created tiny ripples in the very fabric of space and time, right here on Earth. If it holds up, it could be the first step toward technologies once thought possible only in science fiction: warp drives, fusion reactors, even medical time control. But is it the real deal - or just a very flashy illusion? I sat down with... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Scientists say they've bent spacetime</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>Naked Scientists</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>5:48</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Warp speed, Mr Sulu." It's the kind of command we've only heard in science fiction - until now. Did a team of scientists just bend spacetime using nothing but sparks in a lab? That's right - not black holes, not neutron stars - electrical sparks. A new experiment claims to have created tiny ripples in the very fabric of space and time, right here on Earth. If it holds up, it could be the first step toward technologies once thought possible only in science fiction: warp drives, fusion reactors, even medical time control. But is it the real deal - or just a very flashy illusion? I sat down with... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the eLife podcast, a university compost heap has turned up Finland's first documented "giant virus". Also, why monkeys de-sand their supper, and how learning more languages actually makes brain tissue thinner. Then, the link between sugar and neonatal sepsis, and how a cancer controls its hydra host by bestowing it with extra tentacles... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>38:48</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the eLife podcast, a university compost heap has turned up Finland's first documented "giant virus". Also, why monkeys de-sand their supper, and how learning more languages actually makes brain tissue thinner. Then, the link between sugar and neonatal sepsis, and how a cancer controls its hydra host by bestowing it with extra tentacles... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Naked Scientists SOS</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1566582</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cambridge University have informed us that, for cost cutting reasons, they intend to make Dr Chris Smith redundant. Naturally, this jeopardises the Naked Scientists programme, which is produced under his role. He will also lose his medical job. We regard this as a terrible decision and we intend to protest. Please listen to this short podcast to hear how you can help. Together we hope we can turn around this terrible decision... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 06:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Naked Scientists SOS</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>3:30</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Cambridge University have informed us that, for cost cutting reasons, they intend to make Dr Chris Smith redundant. Naturally, this jeopardises the Naked Scientists programme, which is produced under his role. He will also lose his medical job. We regard this as a terrible decision and we intend to protest. Please listen to this short podcast to hear how you can help. Together we hope we can turn around this terrible decision... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Insect extinctions, and AI shot in the arm for drug design</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1563207</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In episode 10 of the Cambridge Prisms Podcast, the shocking finding that as many as 2 invertebrate species are going extinct each week in Australia: what can be done? Also, the shot in the arm that AI is administering to the drug discovery industry, how do you measure the microplastic problem, and why climate tipping points are a serious problem for the drinking water industry. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Insect extinctions, and AI shot in the arm for drug design</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>37:11</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In episode 10 of the Cambridge Prisms Podcast, the shocking finding that as many as 2 invertebrate species are going extinct each week in Australia: what can be done? Also, the shot in the arm that AI is administering to the drug discovery industry, how do you measure the microplastic problem, and why climate tipping points are a serious problem for the drinking water industry. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Storing data with &quot;molecular firecrackers&quot;</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1559262</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your personal data could soon be stored not on a phone or server but locked inside a molecule so tiny it's invisible to the naked eye. Researchers have cracked the code on storing digital information in synthetic molecules called polymers - long chains of anything from plastic to protein made from building blocks known as monomers. Each monomer sends out a unique electrical signal that a special electrochemical technique can decode, turning these tiny sequences into passwords or secret messages. This game-changing technology could redefine data security without relying on traditional storage... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 02:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Storing data with &quot;molecular firecrackers&quot;</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:08</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Your personal data could soon be stored not on a phone or server but locked inside a molecule so tiny it's invisible to the naked eye. Researchers have cracked the code on storing digital information in synthetic molecules called polymers - long chains of anything from plastic to protein made from building blocks known as monomers. Each monomer sends out a unique electrical signal that a special electrochemical technique can decode, turning these tiny sequences into passwords or secret messages. This game-changing technology could redefine data security without relying on traditional storage... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Brain-invading bacterium is making fruit flies extra frisky</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1557526</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if a parasite could rewire your brain - not to harm you, but to make you... more romantic? This week on The Naked Scientists, we're exploring the bizarre world of Wolbachia - a bacterium that turns female fruit flies into mating machines.&amp;#160;Marushka Soobben with the story... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 03:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Brain-invading bacterium is making fruit flies extra frisky</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>4:54</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[What if a parasite could rewire your brain - not to harm you, but to make you... more romantic? This week on The Naked Scientists, we're exploring the bizarre world of Wolbachia - a bacterium that turns female fruit flies into mating machines.&#160;Marushka Soobben with the story... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Speedy, soft robot powered by air alone</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using only soft tubes and a continuous stream of air, a team of researchers at AMOLF in Amsterdam have created one of the fastest and simplest soft robots to date. Marushka Soobben with the story... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 13:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Speedy, soft robot powered by air alone</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>Naked Scientists</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>6:15</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Using only soft tubes and a continuous stream of air, a team of researchers at AMOLF in Amsterdam have created one of the fastest and simplest soft robots to date. Marushka Soobben with the story... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Frog toxicity, and what a year's schooling does to the brain</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:37:17 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Surviving a fusion bomb</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Mcginley was there during some of the first tests of hydrogen bombs in the 1950s. We were lucky enough to hear his story... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 03:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Surviving a fusion bomb</itunes:title>
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		<title>Does our language affect our decision making?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many factors that might affect the way we make decisions: our age, our past experiences, even our mood that day. But now, a new study has suggested that the language we speak also plays a part in our willingness to wait for a reward. Researchers gave the choice of having an amount of money now, or a slightly greater amount later. But they put this choice to bilingual speakers, once in each language. So did the language in which the decision was put to these people affect their decision? Speaking to Will Tingle from Tel-Aviv University was Tali Regev and, kicking us off, Tamar... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 06:04:19 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Does our language affect our decision making?</itunes:title>
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		<title>Microbial life deep underground</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comparatively, we know an awful lot about life on the surface of planet earth. We know a lot less about the extent of life in our oceans, and we know even less about the life festering deep beneath us, in the rocks underground. Scientists estimate that 20% of the earth's biomass (that's the combined weight of all living things) are beneath our feet - microbes adapted to the extreme temperature and pressure down there. Geologists, like Andy Mitchell from the University of Aberystwyth, are determined to understand more about these microorganisms, and not just for scientific interest. If we are... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 04:12:09 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Microbial life deep underground</itunes:title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Babies born during the Covid-19 lockdowns are behind on their language development. That's the finding of a recent study comparing infants born during the pandemic with similar children born in previous years. The reason, as the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland's Susan Byrne explains to Risa Bagwandin, is that social isolation and face masks made it harder for developing youngsters to explore, socialise and interact in the key ways that help foster their communication skills... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 05:36:37 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>How the pandemic affected child development</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>4:51</itunes:duration>
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		<title>New Ultrasound Technique for Breast Imaging</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new non invasive technique to pick up breast cancer has been unveiled by UK scientists. Breast cancer is the most diagnosed form cancer in the UK. Dense breast tissue, particularly common in young women, is difficult to image using existing techniques. Now scientists at the National Physical Laboratory have developed a new technique , using ultrasound. Risa Bagwandin spoke to senior research scientist, Daniel Sarno... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:06:46 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>New Ultrasound Technique for Breast Imaging</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>3:19</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Search and rescue rats</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apopo is a charity that trains African giant pouched rats for humanitarian purposes, with a view to combating some of the challenges faced by countries in the developing world. Originally, they trained these much shunned rodents to sniff out unexploded landmines left over from wars in countries like Mozambique. More recently, their keen sense of smell has also enabled trainers to develop them into excellent detectors of Tuberculosis carriers, so that patients can get diagnosed more quickly than before and receive treatment. Now, these Hero rats as they've been dubbed, are being prepared for a... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:37:02 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Search and rescue rats</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:28</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Apopo is a charity that trains African giant pouched rats for humanitarian purposes, with a view to combating some of the challenges faced by countries in the developing world. Originally, they trained these much shunned rodents to sniff out unexploded landmines left over from wars in countries like Mozambique. More recently, their keen sense of smell has also enabled trainers to develop them into excellent detectors of Tuberculosis carriers, so that patients can get diagnosed more quickly than before and receive treatment. Now, these Hero rats as they've been dubbed, are being prepared for a... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Search and rescue rats</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apopo is a charity that trains African giant pouched rats for humanitarian purposes, with a view to combating some of the challenges faced by countries in the developing world. Originally, they trained these much shunned rodents to sniff out unexploded landmines left over from wars in countries like Mozambique. More recently, their keen sense of smell has also enabled trainers to develop them into excellent detectors of Tuberculosis carriers, so that patients can get diagnosed more quickly than before and receive treatment. Now, these Hero rats as they've been dubbed, are being prepared for a... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:21:46 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Search and rescue rats</itunes:title>
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		<title>TV is influencing careers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you end up in your dream job? Or did you end up pursuing a career quite intensely for some reason that eludes you? Perhaps the media representation of your profession had a part to play. Shrikanth Narayanan and colleagues from the University of Southern California created a dataset to analyse 4000 professions in the subtitles of over 136,000 movies and TV shows and found that their representation may have influenced some of us to take up a career we loved watching on screen... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 04:02:42 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>TV is influencing careers</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<title>FIFA Fall Out with EA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's news of a huge rift in the world of video games... EA Sports, who made the first ever FIFA football game in 1993, have announced that they will no longer be licensing the FIFA name. Chris Berrow, from the Naked Gaming Podcast, has been finding out why and what the consequences might be... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2022 05:23:36 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>FIFA Fall Out with EA</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, I want you to cast your mind back to that first lockdown (if you can bear it) and to think about the ways you chose to fill all that new found free time. Perhaps, like the participants of a survey conducted by the Paris Brain Institute to learn more about the effects of the pandemic on creativity, you decided to sharpen your culinary skills, or spent more time pottering in the garden. But what can this uptick in artistic endeavours in such strange circumstances tell us about the way we react to new situations? This and more was the topic of conversation between James Tytko and... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2022 04:07:57 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Dog and Dingo DNA sequences</title>
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					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 10:08:21 +0200</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coffee prices are on the rise and the plant is said to decline by 60% before 2050, meaning new coffee alternatives are being considered in order to give us that caffeine hit. Harry Lewis speaks to Charlie Shaw from Atomo coffee to find out how they've been making our favourite beverage, without the use of coffee beans... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 04:12:39 +0200</pubDate>
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					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:06:58 +0200</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world has a huge problem with plastics. While they are a materials scientist's dream in terms of their properties, they are an environmentalist's worst nightmare, because they don't break down naturally and are very hard to recycle. But Athina Anastasaki, from ETH Zurich, has set herself the goal of making plastics that can be recycled more easily and now she thinks getting close. Chris Smith found out more... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:05:36 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>A new method for recycling plastics</itunes:title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have been studying DNA as a method to store binary data. As data generation continues to increase in the information age, we need new methods to store it. DNA is extremely robust and can store data 100 times more densely compared to a computer hard drive. In order to capitalise on DNA as a data storage platform, modifications to the molecules that make up DNA are currently being studied. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2022 04:03:16 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Data storage in DNA</itunes:title>
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		<title>Solving puzzles to help cancer research</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playing games may be something you do in your spare time or in the queue at the supermarket, but striving for that elusive high score can also now contribute to science! Julia Ravey grabbed her mobile and caught up with Marc Marti-Renom; he's part of a team at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, where they've built a game for your phone that will help contribute to cancer research... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:24:20 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Solving puzzles to help cancer research</itunes:title>
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		<title>Pig grunts indicate their emotions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are over 7,000 documented languages in the world to date, and now we might have another to add to the list: the one spoken by pigs. No, this is not an April Fool come early. Elodie Mandel-Briefer, from the University of Copenhagen, has assembled a vast dataset of pig noises. And by correlating the noises the animals produced in response to positive or negative experiences, she can pin emotions on sounds. Julia Ravey got in touch to find out if the research team responsible are completely off their trotters... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 12:03:38 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Indoor pollution from cleaning</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from Indiana University studied the reactions of volatile compounds released when cleaning with ozone in the air. They found the reactions led to formation of nanoparticles classified as indoor pollutants. Evelyna Wang speaks to Phillip Stevens about this discovery... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 04:25:21 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>The Dangers of Nuclear Weapons</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nuclear weapons are at the forefront of news but what are they and how do they work? Anoushka Handa reports... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2022 04:50:30 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Creating Oxygen on the Moon</title>
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					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2022 12:57:05 +0200</pubDate>
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		<itunes:duration>4:48</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Roman faeces housing fossilised parasites</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washing our hands has become paramount during the pandemic, but the Romans didn't seem to bestow any importance to this, leading to parasites and infections. Anoushka Handa spoke to Sophie Rabinow, to tell us more... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:57:48 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Roman faeces housing fossilised parasites</itunes:title>
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		<title>Blood clot tests with smartphones</title>
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					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:51:54 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Shades of Blue Stop a Mosquito Biting You</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever got a horrible mosquito bite whilst on holiday and wondered 'why me again?' And was your travel buddy someone who never got one? It could very well be to do with their fashion sense. Anoushka Handa spoke to Jeff Riffell to find out more... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:21:36 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Shades of Blue Stop a Mosquito Biting You</itunes:title>
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		<title>Magnetic Fields Guide Migratory Birds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a growing body of evidence that birds can detect magnetic fields like the one around the Earth, possibly by "seeing" them. And this, researchers think, accounts for how migrating birds, like reed warblers, manage to find their way, seemingly unerringly, half way around the planet. But it's more subtle than just using the magnetic field like a compass. What Oxford University's Joe Wynn thinks is happening is that the birds are pre-programmed by their upbringing to fly in a certain direction, but they use the angle - or inclination - of the Earth's field, to work out how far north or... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 06:43:29 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Car Dependence in Greenfield Housing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greenfield housing developments are residential communities built upon land which was not previously occupied by anything else. These modern homes are often very energy efficient, but a new report by Transport for New Homes has found that these developments are offsetting their positive contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions because of a lack of planning around sustainable modes of transport. James Tytko went to see for himself... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:54:08 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Car Dependence in Greenfield Housing</itunes:title>
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		<title>Why don't plants freeze to death in Winter?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Krzysztof wrote in to ask 'Why don't plants freeze to death during Winter?' and James Tytko tracked down Professor Howard Griffiths, from the University of Cambridge, to break the ice on this question. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:39:21 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Why don't plants freeze to death in Winter?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Krzysztof wrote in to ask 'Why don't plants freeze to death during Winter?' and James Tytko tracked down Professor Howard Griffiths, from the University of Cambridge, to break the ice on this question. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Black hole seen forming new stars</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black holes are known for their awesome destructive powers, ripping stars apart piece by piece. But now, scientists have seen evidence of a black hole helping to form stars. Using the Hubble Telescope, researchers at Montana State University have seen a massive black hole at the centre of a small galaxy called Henize 2-10 triggering star formation around it. Robert Spencer spoke to Zachary Schutte to find out more... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Black hole seen forming new stars</itunes:title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:20:37 +0200</pubDate>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2022 12:25:03 +0200</pubDate>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 03:21:22 +0200</pubDate>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 04:18:36 +0200</pubDate>
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					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:53:42 +0200</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The astonishing discovery of this jurassic era creature has been covered on our show before, but this recording features special insight into the dig itself. Mark Evans from the British Antarctic Survey and Emily Swaby from The Open University describe the significance of finding the skeletal remains of this marine reptile to Harry Lewis... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:50:38 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>The Reforestation Re-evaluation</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:43:43 +0200</pubDate>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 03:08:49 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Do Asteroids Pose a Real Threat?</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:02:16 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Listening vs hearing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hearing and listening... is there a difference? I am sure that we have all been guilty of letting our minds drift out of a conversation before realising and immediately trying to tune back in. New research published in Cell Reports describes how brain activity varies during listening and hearing and how this work sheds light on neural pathways linked to attention. Katie King spoke with author Tania Barkat to find out the difference between hearing and listening... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:50:47 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Language and the Brain</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the human brain and how it completes complex tasks, like processing other people's speech as well as producing its own, is a complex task in and of itself. As it stands, neuroscience isn't able to tell us the underlying computations that lead to human language. New research from the US has taken an interesting approach to working this out: instead of just studying how real, human intelligence deals with language, these researchers have been looking at how artificial intelligence does it too. Cameron Voisey spoke to Ev Fedorenko from MIT to find out more. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2022 12:45:38 +0200</pubDate>
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		<itunes:duration>6:15</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Understanding the human brain and how it completes complex tasks, like processing other people's speech as well as producing its own, is a complex task in and of itself. As it stands, neuroscience isn't able to tell us the underlying computations that lead to human language. New research from the US has taken an interesting approach to working this out: instead of just studying how real, human intelligence deals with language, these researchers have been looking at how artificial intelligence does it too. Cameron Voisey spoke to Ev Fedorenko from MIT to find out more. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>What is the impact of a black hole?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astronomers believe that nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its centre, this being true for our very own Milky Way. These objects exert such strong gravitational forces on the matter contained within them that it cannot escape the black hole's pull. Scientists using the LOFAR telescope in the Netherlands have been studying the impact that such black holes have on the Universe on a mind-bogglingly large scale. One of the scientists working on the project, Marisa Brienza from the University of Bologna, told Cameron Voisey what they found. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:01:42 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>What is the impact of a black hole?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:46</itunes:duration>
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		<title>IVF embryos are more successful than expected</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During IVF or in-vitro fertilisation, sperm and eggs are mixed together in a dish to produce fertilised embryos, one or two of which are placed in the uterus where the hope is they will trigger a successful pregnancy. Previously, embryologists would pick out and use only what they judged to be the most promising looking embryos. But now new research from the reproductive genetics company, Igenomix, has found that a large proportion of embryos that were previously being overlooked can in fact lead to successful pregnancies. Katie King spoke to lead author Antonio Capalbo about these findings... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:19:04 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>IVF embryos are more successful than expected</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:00</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[During IVF or in-vitro fertilisation, sperm and eggs are mixed together in a dish to produce fertilised embryos, one or two of which are placed in the uterus where the hope is they will trigger a successful pregnancy. Previously, embryologists would pick out and use only what they judged to be the most promising looking embryos. But now new research from the reproductive genetics company, Igenomix, has found that a large proportion of embryos that were previously being overlooked can in fact lead to successful pregnancies. Katie King spoke to lead author Antonio Capalbo about these findings... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Making antibiotics more effective</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the coronavirus pandemic is at the forefront of our minds, it's not the only health crisis looming on the horizon. Antimicrobial resistance has been called the "hidden pandemic". One of the ways to counteract resistance is by developing drugs that make current antibiotics more effective, and new research published by the University of Oxford reveals some promising candidates. Tricia Smith spoke with John Tregoning, a researcher in infectious diseases, but not affiliated with this particular study, to talk about the past, present, and future for these critical, and often "last-resort"... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 12:12:34 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Making antibiotics more effective</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[While the coronavirus pandemic is at the forefront of our minds, it's not the only health crisis looming on the horizon. Antimicrobial resistance has been called the "hidden pandemic". One of the ways to counteract resistance is by developing drugs that make current antibiotics more effective, and new research published by the University of Oxford reveals some promising candidates. Tricia Smith spoke with John Tregoning, a researcher in infectious diseases, but not affiliated with this particular study, to talk about the past, present, and future for these critical, and often "last-resort"... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Omicron update: what's in store for Australia</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1138697</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Chris Smith joins Indira Naidoo on the ABC's Nightlife programme to discuss the latest developments in science and answer questions from listeners. This time they look at the difficult decisions confronting politicians and policymakers internationally and how they should react to the omicron new variant, which appears super transmissible but potentially a lot less lethal than other existing forms of SARS-CoV-2... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2021 08:55:58 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Omicron update: what's in store for Australia</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>35:58</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr Chris Smith joins Indira Naidoo on the ABC's Nightlife programme to discuss the latest developments in science and answer questions from listeners. This time they look at the difficult decisions confronting politicians and policymakers internationally and how they should react to the omicron new variant, which appears super transmissible but potentially a lot less lethal than other existing forms of SARS-CoV-2... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The recent evolution of human beings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Us humans are thought to have appeared on Earth around 300,000 years ago. But how much have we changed since then? New research from Shanghai Jiao Tong University has found many of our most complex traits have continued to be tweaked, even in the past two to three thousand years. Julia Ravey spoke to Guan Ning Lin about our ancestors and how alike we really are. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2021 04:59:39 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>The recent evolution of human beings</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:37</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Us humans are thought to have appeared on Earth around 300,000 years ago. But how much have we changed since then? New research from Shanghai Jiao Tong University has found many of our most complex traits have continued to be tweaked, even in the past two to three thousand years. Julia Ravey spoke to Guan Ning Lin about our ancestors and how alike we really are. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>100 years of insulin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[2021 marks 100 years since insulin was first discovered. The World Health Organisation estimates that 422 million people around the world have diabetes, a disease where the body either can't produce enough insulin or doesn't respond properly to insulin. In the UK, 1 in 15 people are affected, and that's only set to rise as more and more of us are overweight or obese. So what is insulin, how was it discovered, and how have we reached a place where millions of people can safely inject themselves with it every day? Sally Le Page explains... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:47:33 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>100 years of insulin</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>6:26</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[2021 marks 100 years since insulin was first discovered. The World Health Organisation estimates that 422 million people around the world have diabetes, a disease where the body either can't produce enough insulin or doesn't respond properly to insulin. In the UK, 1 in 15 people are affected, and that's only set to rise as more and more of us are overweight or obese. So what is insulin, how was it discovered, and how have we reached a place where millions of people can safely inject themselves with it every day? Sally Le Page explains... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Cooling down rapidly warming cities</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 50% of the world's population now lives in urban areas and, in recent years, many major cities have been hit with extreme weather events due to the effects of climate change, like the flooding that hit the London underground - and Queen guitarist Brian May's basement - in the summer of 2021. A key reason for this might be that the urban environments themselves are exacerbating the heating effect, as Verner Viisainen heard from Iain Campbell, from the organisation RMI and the lead author of a new United Nations guide on cooling down cities... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2021 11:39:19 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Cooling down rapidly warming cities</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>Naked Scientists</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>5:42</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[More than 50% of the world's population now lives in urban areas and, in recent years, many major cities have been hit with extreme weather events due to the effects of climate change, like the flooding that hit the London underground - and Queen guitarist Brian May's basement - in the summer of 2021. A key reason for this might be that the urban environments themselves are exacerbating the heating effect, as Verner Viisainen heard from Iain Campbell, from the organisation RMI and the lead author of a new United Nations guide on cooling down cities... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cities have been found to be warming at faster rates than the rest of the planet due to the materials used such as concrete absorbing heat more readily than organic materials. This is known as the "urban heat island" effect. One antidote, scientists have found, is to plant trees. But flipping the issue around for a moment, what do the trees make of these urban jungles? According to Lin Meng, at the University of California, Berkeley, tree growth in urban locations is different, as she explained to Verner Viisainen, based on research published in PNAS... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 12:45:38 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>The science of hugs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we near Christmas, we will be subjected to a fair few more hugs than usual! Some of them can be great, and others... just downright awkward. But what makes a bad hug? What makes a good hug? New research has been published investigating the most pleasant hugging style. Katie King spoke to Anna-Lena Duren to find out why hugs are an important area to study. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 05:02:26 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>The science of hugs</itunes:title>
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		<title>Sleep schedules &amp; healthier hearts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know that sleep is critical for our physical and mental wellbeing, but as it turns out, the answer doesn't simply lie in the number of hours we spend unconscious each night. New research from digital healthcare company, Huma, suggests that a goldilocks bedtime between 10-11PM is linked with a lower risk of heart disease. Katie King spoke to Dr David Plans, Head of Research from Huma to find out why we all need a bedtime... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 04:39:29 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Sleep schedules &amp; healthier hearts</itunes:title>
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		<title>Omicron, variant of concern. What do we know?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virologist Chris Smith talks with Radio New Zealand National's Kim Hill on Saturday 27th November as the world contemplates the discovery of the Covid-19 variant that the WHO has dubbed "Omicron" and labelled as a "variant of concern". How will scientists investigate this agent, and how are policymakers responding? Will the vaccines rolled out internationally continue to work, or do they need to be updated? Is the apparent benign nature of Omicron actually a blessing in disguise? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2021 11:55:25 +0200</pubDate>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Virologist Chris Smith talks with Radio New Zealand National's Kim Hill on Saturday 27th November as the world contemplates the discovery of the Covid-19 variant that the WHO has dubbed "Omicron" and labelled as a "variant of concern". How will scientists investigate this agent, and how are policymakers responding? Will the vaccines rolled out internationally continue to work, or do they need to be updated? Is the apparent benign nature of Omicron actually a blessing in disguise? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Whales eat (and poop) more than we thought</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth's largest animals, whales, need a lot of food... that goes without saying. But, new research from a team at Stanford University have found that whales need 10-20 tonnes of food on a feeding day, which is up to three times more than initially thought. Of course that means three times more poop... and as whale poop drives nutrient recycling in the oceans, this could have a big impact on marine ecosystems. Katie King found out more from the lead author Matthew Savoca... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:28:41 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>NASA's planetary defence test</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this might have flown under your radar, but last Wednesday NASA launched the DART mission, a spacecraft on a one-way collision course with an asteroid, in the world's first full-scale planetary defence test. Tricia Smith asked Space Author Colin Stuart, if life as we know it is in danger... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:49:11 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>NASA's planetary defence test</itunes:title>
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		<title>Covid Surges in Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Covid cases in many European countries are suddenly substantially up. But in a dramatic role reversal, the UK has gone from the standout Covid-19 bad boy of Europe to one of the better performers in terms of daily cases and hospitalisations. According to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Lloyd Chapman, vaccination is the linchpin, and that's where the UK stands out... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:49:48 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Covid Surges in Europe</itunes:title>
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		<title>How do we prevent space collisions?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Matt contacted us asking "With three space missions currently converging on Mars how do the nations avoid orbital collisions? Do they share data, do they have transponders or space traffic control etc?". Katie King spoke with Chris Bridges, academic at Surrey Space Centre in the University of Surrey to find out how we keep our spacecraft from colliding.... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 06:47:32 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>How do we prevent space collisions?</itunes:title>
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		<title>Why does Covid-19 vaccine protection wane?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Covid is surging across Europe, but what's causing it, and will the UK follow suit, or are Europe hot on our heels? Should vaccines be mandatory, and would vaccine passports work? Why does Covid-19 vaccine protection wane with time, and are we looking at a relentless cycle of boosters indefinitely, or will one be sufficient? Dr Chris Smith joins RNZ's Kim Hill for a catch-up all about the current state of Covid-19... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2021 12:02:31 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Fusion experiment yields new record energy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When two atoms join together, the laws of physics tell us that a large amount of energy will be released, but the experiments performed so far by scientists to achieve nuclear fusion have always yielded a lot less energy than the inputs. This week, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which uses an approach called 'inertial confinement fusion', announced that they achieved a huge improvement in the record energy yield from a fusion experiment. Iacopo Russo heard from Debbie Callahan, a lead researcher on the project. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:46:13 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Dogs can pick out words from speech</title>
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					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:54:48 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Facebook's Metaverse</title>
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					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>What does oxytocin sound like?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We talk a lot about proteins on this programme - what they do, how they work - but have you ever wondered what they sound like? A group of scientists at the National University of Singapore have been turning proteins into pieces of music, as Sally Le Page heard from author, Peng Zhang. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:31:07 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>What does oxytocin sound like?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:20</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Antibiotics upgraded to tackle superbugs</title>
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					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:35:54 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Antibiotics upgraded to tackle superbugs</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Antibiotics are such an important part of modern medicine but their effectiveness has been waning in the last few decades as certain bacteria, so called superbugs, have become resistant to multiple common antibiotics, leading to the UN declaring that antimicrobial resistance is one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity. To tackle this issue, new approaches are needed and as new strains of antibiotics are hard to come by, one option is to modify existing antibiotics to make them more effective. Verner Viisainen spoke to Jennifer Payne from Monash University to find out... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Humans navigate inefficiently in cities</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that you take one particular walking route to the shops, only to take a completely different route on the way back? If so, you might not be alone...based on recent paper published in Nature Computational Science, this is more common than you might think and could be because our brains try to always take the pointiest, not necessarily the fastest, route to their destination. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 03:47:12 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Humans navigate inefficiently in cities</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:18</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that you take one particular walking route to the shops, only to take a completely different route on the way back? If so, you might not be alone...based on recent paper published in Nature Computational Science, this is more common than you might think and could be because our brains try to always take the pointiest, not necessarily the fastest, route to their destination. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Hydrogen electrolyser wins Earthshot Prize</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Earthshot Prize is an ambitious environmental program created by His Royal Highness Prince William to find and develop solutions for the climate emergency. This year's prizes were awarded last month at a ceremony in London. The prize for the Fix Our Climate category went to company Enapter, which developed a technology called "AEM hydrogen electrolyser". Iacopo Russo heard from Enapter's co-founder Jan-Justus Schmidt, and from Cambridge University engineering professor David Cebon, to find out firstly what an electrolyser is and more importantly what hydrogen can do for us in a sustainable... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 04:59:32 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Hydrogen electrolyser wins Earthshot Prize</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<title>COVID-19 nanotube-based sensor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["Test! Test! Test!" was the instruction from the World Health Organisation when the Covid-19 pandemic began to take hold around the world. Now scientists at MIT think they might have a solution, both for this pandemic and future ones: they've developed a sensor system comprising a fibre optic to which a special coating is applied that can recognise specific viruses. When it does so, it emits light of a specific colour, signalling a detection. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:17:53 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>COVID-19 nanotube-based sensor</itunes:title>
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		<title>How Alzheimer's Disease Unfolds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research published this week has turned what we know about Alzheimer's disease progression on its head. Instead of the disease gradually spreading through the brain causing symptoms to get worse, the study found progression relied more on how quickly the number of disease-associated proteins increased in individual brain regions. Julia Ravey heard from Cambridge University's Georg Meisl, the study's author, on how this may impact future treatments. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2021 06:51:10 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>How Alzheimer's Disease Unfolds</itunes:title>
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		<title>Potential health benefits of winter swimming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wild water swimming is becoming ever more popular and, according to a new study published recently in Cell Reports Medicine, combining dips in cold water with time in a hot sauna could have potential health benefits. Verner Viisainen spoke with senior author Camilla Scheele to find out more... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:33:28 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Potential health benefits of winter swimming</itunes:title>
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		<title>E-Waste Day: what to do with old electronics?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who doesn't like to pick up a cold drink from the fridge and sit down to watch a show on their laptop or TV? Electrical appliances have made our lives easier and richer and yet, as much as we love them, we don't seem to be as good at properly maintaining or disposing of them. Thursday 14th October this year was International E-Waste Day, an event to raise awareness about the problem of waste electronics. Iacopo Russo heard from Pascal Leroy, the General Director of the WEEE Forum, the non-profit expert group which promotes the event... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:16:52 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>E-Waste Day: what to do with old electronics?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>6:24</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Who doesn't like to pick up a cold drink from the fridge and sit down to watch a show on their laptop or TV? Electrical appliances have made our lives easier and richer and yet, as much as we love them, we don't seem to be as good at properly maintaining or disposing of them. Thursday 14th October this year was International E-Waste Day, an event to raise awareness about the problem of waste electronics. Iacopo Russo heard from Pascal Leroy, the General Director of the WEEE Forum, the non-profit expert group which promotes the event... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>HeLa cells: do you own your own body parts?</title>
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					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 05:53:13 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>HeLa cells: do you own your own body parts?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<title>New painkiller: local and long-lasting relief</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pain relief after surgery is a major headache as we don't have a lot of effective, and safe, options. Opioids in particular, like morphine, are very addictive and cause hundreds of thousands of deaths globally each year, and so doctors are desperate for alternatives. Now, scientists at the University of Buffalo have developed a long-lasting, local painkiller that can be injected into the site of injury to specifically prevent pain-transmitting nerve cells, or neurons, from passing on their painful messages to the brain. It works by stopping a process called endocytosis; this is where cells... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2021 03:58:50 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>New painkiller: local and long-lasting relief</itunes:title>
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		<title>Why do we keep catching the same diseases?</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1109164</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, listener Rick emailed us to ask "Why do we acquire lifelong immunity against some pathogens but not others?" Sally Le Page asked author and infectious disease researcher at Imperial College, London, John Tregoning, to jog our memories... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2021 04:43:11 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Why do we keep catching the same diseases?</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<title>Vaccines passports in England shown the door</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He said he'd introduce them, now Boris Johnson has stepped back from mandating vaccine passports across England for venues like nightclubs. But what's provoked this viral volte-face? Also, saliva tests for Covid-19, few fatal coronavirus cases among the unvaccinated, what's the role of hand sanitisers, and are Covid booster jabs the way forward? Dr Chris Smith joins RNZ's Kim Hill to discuss the latest Covid-19 news... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2021 08:52:24 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Vaccines passports in England shown the door</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>28:30</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[He said he'd introduce them, now Boris Johnson has stepped back from mandating vaccine passports across England for venues like nightclubs. But what's provoked this viral volte-face? Also, saliva tests for Covid-19, few fatal coronavirus cases among the unvaccinated, what's the role of hand sanitisers, and are Covid booster jabs the way forward? Dr Chris Smith joins RNZ's Kim Hill to discuss the latest Covid-19 news... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Self-assembling filter can remove fluoride</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fluoride is the stuff in toothpaste that helps strengthen teeth. But if there's too much fluoride in the water it softens bones, and children become susceptible to bone deformities. It's very difficult and expensive to remove dissolved fluoride ions from water. But, inspired by nature, scientists have used polymers to produce a membrane that can filter out fluoride, as Sally Le Page heard from Ayse Asatekin... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2021 04:12:44 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Self-assembling filter can remove fluoride</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:13</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Moral outrage on Twitter is contagious</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter has been the subject of another study, looking at how people's tendency to post tweets in moral outrage is affected by other people on the site. Increasingly in recent years, celebrities and other well-known individuals have found themselves being "cancelled". This usually happens when they do or say something that other users disagree with. The outpourings of outrage reverberate across the social network with many piling in publicly to scorn and humiliate the perpetrator. But why do people resort to this Twitter equivalent of lobbing rotten tomatoes at someone in the stocks?... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 04:34:15 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Moral outrage on Twitter is contagious</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>4:21</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Bit.bio: a new source of human cells</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists and doctors are always after good quality human cells for research and therapeutic purposes, but these can be hard to come by in sufficient quantities. Now, synthetic biology company bit.bio has opened up new headquarters in Cambridge to start supplying multiple different cell types by reprogramming stem cells. Eva Higginbotham heard more from founder and CEO Mark Kotter... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:04:26 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Bit.bio: a new source of human cells</itunes:title>
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		<title>Feeding birds could be causing harm</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us love putting out bird seed and watching birds feast away, and feel we're doing a good deed too, but a new paper out of Manchester Metropolitan University suggests we may actually be doing more harm than good. Eva Higginbotham spoke to BBC science correspondent Victoria Gill, who spoke with lead author Alex Lees previously... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:10:19 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Feeding birds could be causing harm</itunes:title>
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		<title>Schools Causing Covid Surges</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most schools across the UK are open and children are heading back to their classrooms. But to what extent will this affect the Covid case rates across the country and what can we do to avoid disrupting a third academic year? In Scotland, children returned to school sooner than their English counterparts: what can we learn from their experience? Chris Smith spoke with Linda Bauld, who specialises in public health at the University of Edinburgh... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 13:24:30 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Long COVID in children: what we know so far</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite soon after the pandemic first struck a significant number of people began to complain of persistent symptoms in the aftermath of being infected with the new coronavirus. These manifestations have been dubbed "long covid". What's less clear is the extent to which this is happening not just to adults but also to children, and particularly teenagers. Terence Stephenson is at the UCL Gt Ormond St Institute of Child Health and spoke with Chris Smith... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 02:49:30 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Long COVID in children: what we know so far</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<title>Water vapour found on Ganymede</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often look for water on remote planets and moons because, as far as we know, it's a requirement for life. Now a team of researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope to scrutinise Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, think they've found water in its atmosphere. Sally Le Page spoke with team member Kurt Retherford. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 05:09:09 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Water vapour found on Ganymede</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>4:22</itunes:duration>
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		<title>What can NZ do about Delta?</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1089326</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Delta more deadly, or just transmitting more rapidly? And are the vaccines we're using likely to defend against future coronavirus variants? Also, does it matter that levels of antibody dimish post-vaccination, or will immune memory make up for the shortfall? Meanwhile, are vaccinated people who still catch Delta equally infectious? Does Delta incubate at the same rate as classical coronavirus strains? And do tests work equally well against Delta? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2021 11:21:08 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>What can NZ do about Delta?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>Naked Scientists</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>20:10</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is Delta more deadly, or just transmitting more rapidly? And are the vaccines we're using likely to defend against future coronavirus variants? Also, does it matter that levels of antibody dimish post-vaccination, or will immune memory make up for the shortfall? Meanwhile, are vaccinated people who still catch Delta equally infectious? Does Delta incubate at the same rate as classical coronavirus strains? And do tests work equally well against Delta? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in dogs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have reported a case of antibiotic-resistant bacteria passing between dogs and their owners. And these bacteria aren't just resistant to any antibiotic - they're resistant to colistin, an antibiotic of last resort that we use when all other treatments fail. Mark Holmes is a vet and a microbial scientist from the University of Cambridge - he wasn't involved in the research, but he took a look for us and spoke to Eva Higginbotham... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2021 03:29:59 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in dogs</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>6:09</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Researchers have reported a case of antibiotic-resistant bacteria passing between dogs and their owners. And these bacteria aren't just resistant to any antibiotic - they're resistant to colistin, an antibiotic of last resort that we use when all other treatments fail. Mark Holmes is a vet and a microbial scientist from the University of Cambridge - he wasn't involved in the research, but he took a look for us and spoke to Eva Higginbotham... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The UK and Freedom Day: What The Numbers Say</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Smith joins Radio New Zealand National's Kim Hill to talk Covid-19, including the impact of the July 19th UK Freedom Day on Covid case rates. They also touch on vaccine performance, variants, past pandemics and whether we'll all be getting boosters in future years... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 11:16:47 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>The UK and Freedom Day: What The Numbers Say</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<title>New malaria drug cures with one dose</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Covid-19 is dominating the headlines perpetually at the moment, it's very important not to lose sight of other significant diseases that don't yet have vaccines and do have a higher cumulative death toll. Malaria is one of them and kills half a million people, mostly children, every year. One serious problem is that the parasite that causes the disease is rapidly becoming resistant to the remaining antimalarial drugs we're using, so scientists have been searching for new ways to treat the disease. So far, more than 7 million chemical compounds have been screened to try to discover new... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 04:09:51 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>New malaria drug cures with one dose</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>4:13</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although Covid-19 is dominating the headlines perpetually at the moment, it's very important not to lose sight of other significant diseases that don't yet have vaccines and do have a higher cumulative death toll. Malaria is one of them and kills half a million people, mostly children, every year. One serious problem is that the parasite that causes the disease is rapidly becoming resistant to the remaining antimalarial drugs we're using, so scientists have been searching for new ways to treat the disease. So far, more than 7 million chemical compounds have been screened to try to discover new... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Increasing likelihood of extreme heatwaves</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year a devastating heatwave in the pacific northwest of the United States killed almost 200 people with record-shattering temperatures; and, in 2019, the UK recorded its highest ever temperature of 38.7 degrees here in Cambridge. Alarmingly, new research from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology suggests that there's more of this to come. Eva Higginbotham heard why from Erich Fischer... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 05:32:33 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Increasing likelihood of extreme heatwaves</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<title>Hygiene doesn't harm immune development</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A question we're being asked quite a lot is whether the extra lengths we're going to in terms of hygiene to protect us from COVID-19 might cause us immune problems later because we're living lives that are too clean. This is the basis of what's dubbed the "hygiene hypothesis". But a report out this week says that, actually, it's the environment we've created - rather than the way we clean it - that matters, because modern living conditions and building materials select for the wrong sorts of microbes. Microbiologist and author of the report, Graham Rook, spoke to Chris Smith... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:30:51 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Hygiene doesn't harm immune development</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>7:08</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A question we're being asked quite a lot is whether the extra lengths we're going to in terms of hygiene to protect us from COVID-19 might cause us immune problems later because we're living lives that are too clean. This is the basis of what's dubbed the "hygiene hypothesis". But a report out this week says that, actually, it's the environment we've created - rather than the way we clean it - that matters, because modern living conditions and building materials select for the wrong sorts of microbes. Microbiologist and author of the report, Graham Rook, spoke to Chris Smith... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Rivers don't always recover after drought</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The general view is that waterways, such as rivers and underground water sources, will dry up during severe drought - but eventually recover and resume their normal flow when the rains return. But new findings from Australia pour cold water on that idea. When researchers analysed 30 years of rainfall and flow data from 161 water catchments in southeast Australia, they discovered that one-third of these water catchments had not recovered almost eight years later. Charlotte Birkmanis heard more from Monash University's Tim Peterson... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:23:05 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Rivers don't always recover after drought</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>3:12</itunes:duration>
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		<title>'Dragon Man' skull: our closest relative?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ancient skull, uncovered decades ago in China, has recently been revealed to be possibly the closest ever relative to humankind. It's called "Dragon Man", and based on trace uranium inside the skull, it's been dated to at least 146,000 years old - but could well be much older! This puts it at a critical time period in human evolution, when our ancestors were first emerging within Africa. But there's some disagreement about whether the fossil is from an entirely new species, or is linked to other sets of fossils found in East Asia. Palaeoanthropologist John Hawks, who wasn't involved in the... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:27:51 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>'Dragon Man' skull: our closest relative?</itunes:title>
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		<title>T-rex teens fill mid-size predator gap</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few animals inspire the imagination like Tyrannosaurus rex. And the mighty tyrannosaurs did dominate the lands that eventually became central Asia and western North America for millions of years. But during that time, fossils show that medium-sized predators all but disappeared. Why? Thomas Holtz from the University of Maryland dug deep into the records, and - as he tells Charlotte Birkmanis - thinks teen T-rexes are the answer... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 07:47:13 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>T-rex teens fill mid-size predator gap</itunes:title>
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		<title>Sharks use Earth's magnetic field as a map</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously, researchers knew that sharks can travel back and forth across entire oceans, accurately returning to specific locations. But what we didn't know was whether they memorise these routes, or if they have some sort of inbuilt GPS. To find out how sharks navigate, Charlotte Birkmanis mapped the course with Florida State University's Bryan Keller... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:51:26 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Sharks use Earth's magnetic field as a map</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>4:08</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Previously, researchers knew that sharks can travel back and forth across entire oceans, accurately returning to specific locations. But what we didn't know was whether they memorise these routes, or if they have some sort of inbuilt GPS. To find out how sharks navigate, Charlotte Birkmanis mapped the course with Florida State University's Bryan Keller... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Pesticide antidote might help struggling bees</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New technology may help save bees by providing an antidote for deadly pesticides. The new solution allows beekeepers to feed their bees 'pollen patties', a pollen-sized microparticle filled with enzymes to prevent the bees from ingesting certain pesticides. Carlotte Birkmanis chatted with Cornell University's James Webb to get the latest buzz on their sweet technology. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 06:49:27 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Pesticide antidote might help struggling bees</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:00</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[New technology may help save bees by providing an antidote for deadly pesticides. The new solution allows beekeepers to feed their bees 'pollen patties', a pollen-sized microparticle filled with enzymes to prevent the bees from ingesting certain pesticides. Carlotte Birkmanis chatted with Cornell University's James Webb to get the latest buzz on their sweet technology. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Covid viruses, vaccines and variants</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Covid viruses, vaccines and variants: Chris Smith talks to Radio New Zealand National to bring Kim Hill up to speed with the latest developments on the pandemic front, including the recent case in NZ's Wellington... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:28:05 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Covid viruses, vaccines and variants</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Covid viruses, vaccines and variants: Chris Smith talks to Radio New Zealand National to bring Kim Hill up to speed with the latest developments on the pandemic front, including the recent case in NZ's Wellington... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Mouse plague in Australia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eastern Australia is currently in the grips of a mouse plague. Mice live everywhere people do, often undetected. Right now though, highly favourable conditions have caused mice populations to explode in the eastern states of Queensland and New South Wales. A year of abundant rainfall after several years of drought has led to bumper crops, providing lots of food for mice, allowing them to not only thrive but also reproduce at an astonishing rate. Farmers are using zinc phosphide-coated wheat bait to combat the pests, the only registered in-crop rodent killer for the management of mice in... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 05:13:44 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Mouse plague in Australia</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>6:32</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Eastern Australia is currently in the grips of a mouse plague. Mice live everywhere people do, often undetected. Right now though, highly favourable conditions have caused mice populations to explode in the eastern states of Queensland and New South Wales. A year of abundant rainfall after several years of drought has led to bumper crops, providing lots of food for mice, allowing them to not only thrive but also reproduce at an astonishing rate. Farmers are using zinc phosphide-coated wheat bait to combat the pests, the only registered in-crop rodent killer for the management of mice in... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Covid viruses, vaccines and variants</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Covid viruses, vaccines and variants: Chris Smith talks to Radio New Zealand National to bring Kim Hill up to speed with the latest developments on the pandemic front, including the recent case in NZ's Wellington... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:14:20 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Sperm and squid in space</title>
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					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2021 05:06:54 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Sperm and squid in space</itunes:title>
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		<title>Cells reprogrammed to make synthetic polymers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is always on the lookout for new drugs - but they're not easy to make. Synthesising them is often an expensive and prolonged process. But what if we could employ a miniature assistant to do it for us? That's what a team from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have come up with. They're managed to genetically reprogramme living cells to build complex molecules - molecules that no living thing would ever normally produce. Phil Sansom learned how from researcher Jason Chin... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 16:45:50 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Cells reprogrammed to make synthetic polymers</itunes:title>
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		<title>New process may transform mining</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For thousands of years, humans have used traditional mining techniques involving sinking tunnels or large pits to recover relatively small amounts of useful metals like gold and copper. What remains is usually, at best, a scar on the landscape, large amounts of waste material, and habitat destruction. At worst, the practices have led to environmental catastrophes. Now an international team, including researchers from the University of Western Australia, have found a way to harness the power of electricity to achieve the same mineral recovery but without the environmental costs. By placing... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 13:12:46 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>New process may transform mining</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>4:38</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Vodka from Chernobyl on its way to UK</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in the UK, you should soon be able to drink vodka... from Chernobyl! Which might sound like a radioactive nightmare, but the stuff is - supposedly - completely safe to drink. Not only do radioactive particles get removed during the distillation process, there were few originally there at all - thanks to how well much of the environment around Chernobyl has recovered since the 1986 disaster. The project is the brainchild of researchers in Ukraine alongside environmental scientist Jim Smith from Portsmouth University. They've just distilled the first batch of their vodka, but... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 12:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Vodka from Chernobyl on its way to UK</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:18</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If you live in the UK, you should soon be able to drink vodka... from Chernobyl! Which might sound like a radioactive nightmare, but the stuff is - supposedly - completely safe to drink. Not only do radioactive particles get removed during the distillation process, there were few originally there at all - thanks to how well much of the environment around Chernobyl has recovered since the 1986 disaster. The project is the brainchild of researchers in Ukraine alongside environmental scientist Jim Smith from Portsmouth University. They've just distilled the first batch of their vodka, but... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Loan applications rejected more around midday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's often hardest to think when you've been working all day - especially if your job involves making lots of decisions. Psychologists call this decision fatigue. And evidence has shown that the phenomenon has serious, real-world consequences... beyond making you collapse on the sofa. Now, a study from the University of Cambridge seems to demonstrate that it could make the difference between your bank loan getting approved - or rejected. Lead author Tobias Baer spoke to Eva Higginbotham... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 12:05:59 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Loan applications rejected more around midday</itunes:title>
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		<title>Camera based on shrimp eye sees cancer cells</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mantis shrimp is a sea creature with a particular party piece. While our eyes are sensitive to three colours, red, green and blue, which our brain uses to make the full rainbow of colours we see, the mantis shrimp is sensitive to 12 to 16 different colours, giving them a much wider spectrum of colours. Scientists in the University of Illinois figured this might be useful, and have created a camera that can see colours we can't. The idea is that if you tag a cancerous tumour with a fluorescent chemical that we can't see, but the camera can, it will give surgeons a quick and easy way to... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 03:12:22 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Camera based on shrimp eye sees cancer cells</itunes:title>
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		<title>SciHub: are they stealing your data?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexandra Elbakyan is the founder of the website SciHub, and it came out this week that she is being investigated by the FBI. You see, SciHub is an illegal venture: it makes research papers available for free to people who want them, bypassing the fees and subscriptions that journals would normally charge for that access. In this respect they can claim the moral high ground: people who couldn't otherwise afford to access the material can read it. But the way SciHub obtains the journal articles it makes available is not legal; they are said to have obtained access codes from people at... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 04:27:17 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>SciHub: are they stealing your data?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<title>Plants affected by noise pollution</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noise pollution can be difficult to live with, and it turns out that plants are also impacted by too much noise, although not in the way you might expect. Jenny Phillips from Texas A&amp;M in San Antonio has been studying the seedlings of native trees around gas wells in New Mexico. She's found that noise pollution can drive away the animals that some plants rely on to spread their seeds, as she explained to Katie Haylor... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 12:40:07 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Plants affected by noise pollution</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>4:27</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Noise pollution can be difficult to live with, and it turns out that plants are also impacted by too much noise, although not in the way you might expect. Jenny Phillips from Texas A&M in San Antonio has been studying the seedlings of native trees around gas wells in New Mexico. She's found that noise pollution can drive away the animals that some plants rely on to spread their seeds, as she explained to Katie Haylor... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anorexia nervosa is a cruel, complex and serious mental health condition. It involves deliberately losing weight in order to keep body weight as low as possible. And through investigating brain circuits involved in regulating body weight and which can go awry in obesity, Roger Cone from the University of Michigan and colleagues, along with scientists from Vanderbilt University, have now shown that activating a particular receptor called MC3 in the brains of mice encourages them to eat more, whilst at the same time also suppressing fear and anxiety. And Roger thinks this has interesting... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 03:51:26 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Ancient DNA extracted from cave dirt</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When they're trying to piece together our understanding of ancient Humans and Neanderthals, scientists often have to rely on artifacts found in caves. What scientists wish they had more of was ancient DNA, which would allow them to study how the populations of these groups changed and expanded over time. Now that's about to change thanks to Benjamin Vernot at the Max Planck Institute, as he explained to Eva Higginbotham.... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 03:21:48 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>New treatment for paracetamol overdose</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year 80,000 patients are hospitalised in the US for paracetamol overdose, the leading cause of liver damage in the US and Europe. The current treatment is effective at treating the liver damage, but because its efficacy is limited to being given within 8 hours since the overdose, scientists have been looking for alternative treatments. Melanie Jans-Singh spoke with clinical scientist Christof Gaunt, about the discovery of a new molecule that can treat the damage done by the paracetamol overdose to the liver... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:34:02 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>New treatment for paracetamol overdose</itunes:title>
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		<title>Masks on the beach and in beer gardens? C'mon...</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Face masks have their place, but what's really needed right now is a breath of fresh air and a dose of common sense to control Covid-19, as Chris Smith explains... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2021 02:29:55 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Masks on the beach and in beer gardens? C'mon...</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Face masks have their place, but what's really needed right now is a breath of fresh air and a dose of common sense to control Covid-19, as Chris Smith explains... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Genetics behind why rabbits hop</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research has found a gene that looks to be the reason why rabbits, and perhaps all bouncing mammals hop. Using an unusual type of rabbit, called a sauteur d'Alfort, which doesn't hop, but runs on its front paws like a handstand, scientists have found a specific gene called RORB, that's missing in these rabbits. Defects in this gene may have damaging effects in all mammals though, not just rabbits. Adam Murphy spoke to Leif Andersson from Uppsala University about these bizarre bunnies... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:02:13 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Genetics behind why rabbits hop</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[New research has found a gene that looks to be the reason why rabbits, and perhaps all bouncing mammals hop. Using an unusual type of rabbit, called a sauteur d'Alfort, which doesn't hop, but runs on its front paws like a handstand, scientists have found a specific gene called RORB, that's missing in these rabbits. Defects in this gene may have damaging effects in all mammals though, not just rabbits. Adam Murphy spoke to Leif Andersson from Uppsala University about these bizarre bunnies... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Spinosaurus: was it a giant, toothy heron?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spinosaurus was a dinosaur that was around 13 metres long, and looked a little like a T-Rex with the addition of a massive sail on its back. There's been much debate around how it lived; while it seems to be tied to the water, it's unclear how close those ties were. One theory suggests it was actually like a crocodile, living a pretty aquatic life. But new research points to features of its anatomy that suggest that it was a lot more like a giant, very toothy heron, waiting at the water's edge. Adam Murphy spoke to David Hone from Queen Mary University of London about the dino debate... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:58:22 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Spinosaurus: was it a giant, toothy heron?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Spinosaurus was a dinosaur that was around 13 metres long, and looked a little like a T-Rex with the addition of a massive sail on its back. There's been much debate around how it lived; while it seems to be tied to the water, it's unclear how close those ties were. One theory suggests it was actually like a crocodile, living a pretty aquatic life. But new research points to features of its anatomy that suggest that it was a lot more like a giant, very toothy heron, waiting at the water's edge. Adam Murphy spoke to David Hone from Queen Mary University of London about the dino debate... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The world of fungi inside seed banks</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1021661</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[We share our planet with microbes. Some do us harm, others do us good and are known as our microbiome. Plants also have a microbiome, and in a paper out recently, scientists working in a seed bank report how they got curious about what microbes could be stored away inside banked seeds. And by surveying seeds from just 1 type of plant, they found about 200 species of fungi. Katie Haylor spoke to study author Rowena Hill... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2021 06:15:26 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>The world of fungi inside seed banks</itunes:title>
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		<title>Eagle killer identified</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1994, at DeGray Lake in the state of Arkansas in the USA, 29 bald eagles were found dead from a mysterious disease. Many more across the area have been found suffering from "Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy", which causes holes in the brain and spinal cord, and erratic behaviour. Researchers now think they've cracked the mystery, as Eva Higginbotham heard from Timo Niedermeyer at Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 12:26:17 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Eagle killer identified</itunes:title>
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		<title>Industrial yeast impairs gut wound healing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crohn's Disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (or IBD), where the immune system attacks and inflames bits of the intestines. It can cause diarrhea, pain, fatigue, and consequent disruptions to daily activities like school and work. There are treatments, but currently no cure. Now, scientists in the US have found that a fungus used industrially in foods like wine, cheese and cured meats - called Debaryomyces Hansenii - seems to be thriving in gut wounds in mice, and getting in the way of the wounds healing. And they think a similar thing is happening in the inflamed intestines of the... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:16:31 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Industrial yeast impairs gut wound healing</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Crohn's Disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (or IBD), where the immune system attacks and inflames bits of the intestines. It can cause diarrhea, pain, fatigue, and consequent disruptions to daily activities like school and work. There are treatments, but currently no cure. Now, scientists in the US have found that a fungus used industrially in foods like wine, cheese and cured meats - called Debaryomyces Hansenii - seems to be thriving in gut wounds in mice, and getting in the way of the wounds healing. And they think a similar thing is happening in the inflamed intestines of the... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fires of any scale tend to produce a certain amount of smoke - a variety of different particles including small bits of unburnt fuel, which eventually disperse into the atmosphere. And looking at data from satellites out in space, scientists in Israel have shown that smoke from the late 2019 / early 2020 Australian wildfires actually travelled up beyond the lower atmosphere (known as the troposphere) and into the stratosphere - that's above where clouds gather and planes tend to fly. Up here, these smoke particles stick around for longer, where they can absorb or scatter incoming energy from... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:30:01 +0200</pubDate>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Fires of any scale tend to produce a certain amount of smoke - a variety of different particles including small bits of unburnt fuel, which eventually disperse into the atmosphere. And looking at data from satellites out in space, scientists in Israel have shown that smoke from the late 2019 / early 2020 Australian wildfires actually travelled up beyond the lower atmosphere (known as the troposphere) and into the stratosphere - that's above where clouds gather and planes tend to fly. Up here, these smoke particles stick around for longer, where they can absorb or scatter incoming energy from... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cone snails are a group of highly venomous marine snails. Their shells are beautiful, but they pack a powerful neurotoxic punch: some members of this family are so poisonous that they can easily kill a person. But one species of cone snail, called Conus imperialis, produces a very different reaction in the worms they hunt. This snail has a venom cocktail that includes pheromones: it uses similar chemicals to the ones the worms give off when mating. Why make a worm aphrodisiac? Phil Sansom spoke to Joshua Torres from the University of Copenhagen about these strange creatures... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 09:06:40 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Cone snails seduce prey with pheromones</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Cone snails are a group of highly venomous marine snails. Their shells are beautiful, but they pack a powerful neurotoxic punch: some members of this family are so poisonous that they can easily kill a person. But one species of cone snail, called Conus imperialis, produces a very different reaction in the worms they hunt. This snail has a venom cocktail that includes pheromones: it uses similar chemicals to the ones the worms give off when mating. Why make a worm aphrodisiac? Phil Sansom spoke to Joshua Torres from the University of Copenhagen about these strange creatures... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Modelling concussion with eggs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years we've realised quite how bad a knock on the head can be for us, because the brain bobs about suspended in fluid inside our skulls. And if you move, or stop, the head suddenly, the brain cannons into the inside of the skull and can be injured. It's especially important in sports, but it's hard to study - and to develop effective safety equipment - for obvious reasons. But scientists have now discovered that something you commonly find in fridge door behaves in an uncannily similar way to your brain. Adam Murphy found out more... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:06:10 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Modelling concussion with eggs</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>4:48</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In recent years we've realised quite how bad a knock on the head can be for us, because the brain bobs about suspended in fluid inside our skulls. And if you move, or stop, the head suddenly, the brain cannons into the inside of the skull and can be injured. It's especially important in sports, but it's hard to study - and to develop effective safety equipment - for obvious reasons. But scientists have now discovered that something you commonly find in fridge door behaves in an uncannily similar way to your brain. Adam Murphy found out more... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Diabetes drug trialled to treat obesity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the UK, about 1 in 4 adults are affected by obesity, which is linked to diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. But recently a new study has documented the effect of giving a drug called semaglutide to 2000 people over a 1 year period. The drug mimics a gut hormone called GLP-1 to boost insulin levels and it's already used to treat diabetes. The study subjects lost an average of 15kg on the drug, suggesting that it might be an effective way to support weight loss. Katie Haylor asked Cambridge University geneticist and obesity specialist Giles Yeo to take her through the results of the... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2021 05:01:08 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Diabetes drug trialled to treat obesity</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<title>Bile ducts grown in lab can repair livers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new way to repair diseased livers has been unveiled by researchers at the University of Cambridge. They've found a way to grow the cells that line the branching system of pathways inside the liver - the bile ducts. It's a big step forward. Chris Smith heard from Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, who is part of the team behind the work... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:07:45 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Bile ducts grown in lab can repair livers</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>6:15</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A new way to repair diseased livers has been unveiled by researchers at the University of Cambridge. They've found a way to grow the cells that line the branching system of pathways inside the liver - the bile ducts. It's a big step forward. Chris Smith heard from Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, who is part of the team behind the work... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>COVID: seeking herd immunity by vaccination</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing we're all hoping for is that the new coronavirus vaccines will give us 'herd immunity' - this would mean that so many people are immune to the virus that it would start to die away as it can't find new hosts to infect. But how does herd immunity work in practice, and are the vaccines we have likely to put us in this fortunate position? Eva Higginbotham spoke with Peter English, a consultant in communicable disease control, to find out... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 07:53:57 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>COVID: seeking herd immunity by vaccination</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:44</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One thing we're all hoping for is that the new coronavirus vaccines will give us 'herd immunity' - this would mean that so many people are immune to the virus that it would start to die away as it can't find new hosts to infect. But how does herd immunity work in practice, and are the vaccines we have likely to put us in this fortunate position? Eva Higginbotham spoke with Peter English, a consultant in communicable disease control, to find out... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Covid-19 latest and the flu surge in waiting</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virologist Dr Chris Smith catches up with RNZ's Kim Hill with an update on the Covid-19 latest news including encouraging data on the performance of the vaccines, but discouraging news on the stances of some prominent European leaders towards AstraZeneca's vaccine. Also, new Covid variants in America, and why scientists suspect flu might be waiting in the wings to make a dramatic comeback... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 12:45:47 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Covid-19 latest and the flu surge in waiting</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>18:27</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Virologist Dr Chris Smith catches up with RNZ's Kim Hill with an update on the Covid-19 latest news including encouraging data on the performance of the vaccines, but discouraging news on the stances of some prominent European leaders towards AstraZeneca's vaccine. Also, new Covid variants in America, and why scientists suspect flu might be waiting in the wings to make a dramatic comeback... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Treating osteoarthritis with antidepressants</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osteoarthritis is a painful condition caused by wear and tear to the slippery cartilage that normally coats and lubricates the bone surfaces in our joints. This doesn't repair itself very well, so, when it wears out, joint replacement is usually the only option. But recently, scientists out of Penn State University in the US have shown that the antidepressant drug paroxetine has an interesting side-effect: it encourages the cells that make and build cartilage to grow. So, perhaps, in the future we'll be able to pop a pill, rather than have a hip replacement. Fadia Kamal told Katie Haylor what... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:46:41 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Treating osteoarthritis with antidepressants</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>5:12</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Osteoarthritis is a painful condition caused by wear and tear to the slippery cartilage that normally coats and lubricates the bone surfaces in our joints. This doesn't repair itself very well, so, when it wears out, joint replacement is usually the only option. But recently, scientists out of Penn State University in the US have shown that the antidepressant drug paroxetine has an interesting side-effect: it encourages the cells that make and build cartilage to grow. So, perhaps, in the future we'll be able to pop a pill, rather than have a hip replacement. Fadia Kamal told Katie Haylor what... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists]]></itunes:summary>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 04:09:11 +0200</pubDate>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:28:06 +0200</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the online world, a battle is brewing between tech giants Google and Facebook and the Australian government. The government are proposing a law to force organisations like Google pay the news outlets that produce the news content they currently run for free on their websites, where it draws huge amounts of traffic. The tech companies have retaliated by threatening to withdraw their services from Australia. To explore this in more detail, Adam Murphy spoke with entrepreneur and tech Investor Peter Cowley... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 07:29:05 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Millipedes disrupting trains</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The things we see inhabiting our planet have evolved fantastic adaptations and habits to overcome issues in their environment that get in the way of an ultimate happy ending. This week an international collaboration led by scientists from Japan, have established the first life cycle in a creature other than the famous cicadas where they erupt from the earth all at the same time to cause havoc and interrupt human lives. Martin Khechara spoke to arthropod researcher Eleanor Drinkwater from the University of York about the research... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists ]]></description>
					<category>Science</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 03:32:35 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Millipedes disrupting trains</itunes:title>
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