What shape web does a spider spin in space?

What shape web does a spider spin in space?

Can spiders weave webs in microgravity? Can shampooing cause hair loss? How much brain do we use at once? Can a person survive on raw food alone? This week we're answering your science questions, plus news of the IgNobel prize for research into 'hairodynamics' and a way to wipe out bad memories... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Bioengineering

Bioengineering

How does nature inspire technology and engineering? We find out how bamboo may make effective wind turbines, and how the material that makes up locust tendons could soon be in your shoes and electroni...

30 Mai 200954min

Getting Under Your Skin

Getting Under Your Skin

Science gets under your skin on this week's Naked Scientists, where we find out how human skin colour evolved to make the best of our sunlight. We explain why albino people have no skin pigment at al...

23 Mai 20091h 5min

Science Questions and Answers

Science Questions and Answers

We're open to your questions on the Naked Scientists this week, finding out how photosynthesis works underwater, exploring the sex lives of barnacles and discussing if rockets punch holes in the ozone...

16 Mai 20091h

Clean Water and Alien Invasions

Clean Water and Alien Invasions

This week, we're diving into the science of clean water, finding out why rivers and ponds are essential for wildlife, and how alien invaders are colonising our waterways. Plus, how a diet of glycerol...

9 Mai 200957min

Tackling Transport

Tackling Transport

On this week's Naked Scientists, we explore the engineering and materials science that will give rise to the future of transport! We find out how jet engine parts grown as a single crystal of superal...

2 Mai 200958min

Cleaner City Air

Cleaner City Air

In this week's atmospheric Naked Scientists, we're putting the air that we breathe under the microscope. We find out how air quality is monitored, how new technology could help you plan the least poll...

25 Apr 200957min

Questions and Answers

Questions and Answers

This week, we find out how a giant parachute could help avoid satellite collisions, why the schizophrenic brain can't see a popular optical illusion and discover that all octopodes (or octopuses?) are...

18 Apr 200957min

SciFest Africa

SciFest Africa

This special Naked Scientists comes to you from the MTN Sciencentre in Cape Town, South Africa, with some of the highlights of SciFest Africa. Meera goes on safari to find out how the Born Free Found...

5 Apr 200959min

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