AUT Professor of Chemistry, Allan Blackman, is back for another week before Steve Pointing returns in February. Today on the show, Allan chats to Ximena about a tragic story of medical quackery in the UK, where a woman was conned into an expensive 'alkaline treatment' for her breast cancer. They also talk about new discoveries this week of extreme temperatures - astronomers have stumbled across hotter temperatures than were thought possible, while at the other end of the spectrum, the coldest temperature in the universe has been created in a lab.