5 Live Science Podcast
Election interference, Mpox, and A lost city
November 3, 202451 min · 8,915 words
Show notes
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team look at the latest science news. Including the news that the UK has detected its first case of a new Mpox variant, and the discovery of a lost city in Mexico. Plus, an in-depth look at how technology could swing the outcome of the US presidential elections.
Highlighted moments
The difference now is the degree to which somebody outside can find out exactly who you are, what you like, what you dislike, what really motivates you, what makes you angry, and they can play on that.
“On average, we found that 17 versions of this bacterium exist in a given geographic region like Western Europe, which doesn't seem to be a lot. It means that maybe a handful of phages could be enough to target the majority of the infections in a given world region.”
“we gave the mouse a cocktail of different components of the bacterial cell and let the immune system decide which one was the most important things we thought we could target.”
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