Show notes
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team look at the latest science news. Including an enormous black hole defying our existing laws of physics, and what DNA analysis is revealing about the inhabitants of Pompeii. Plus, an in-depth look at whether smartphones can harm children's' development.
Highlighted moments
if women don't take HRT, 59 out of 1,000 women will develop breast cancer. If women take combined HRT for 5 years, over those 20 years, there would be 20 more women.
“each infected person has enough virus leaving their body, both upwards and downwards, to potentially infect the entire world population, and that's not an exaggeration.”
“the more the stuff that falls in, the more radiation pressure gets produced that blows stuff away. Now, you can overcome that, but one of the ideas was that you could only overcome it on short periods of time.”
“all four of these individuals were males. They were also genetically distinct from each other.”
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