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What do our nerves sound like?

What do our nerves sound like?

FromOxford Sparks Big Questions


What do our nerves sound like?

FromOxford Sparks Big Questions

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Length:
13 minutes
Released:
Apr 24, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Our nerves don’t stop talking. They’re 24-7 communication systems for our bodies. But does all this cellular chitta-chatta actually make a noise? For 100’s of years, scientists have been trying to figure out how exactly our nervous system relays messages. Part of the secret may lie in a sound wave! On this episode of the Big Questions podcast we are asking: What do nerves sound like?  To find out we visited Shamit Shrivastava, Experimental Physicist at the University of Oxford…
Released:
Apr 24, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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'Will my bacon sandwich kill me?', 'Is vaping better than smoking?', 'How do you become an astronaut?' - just some of the Big Questions we ask some of the brightest minds behind Oxford science. Join us in each podcast as we explore a different area of science.