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How mosquitoes sniff out CO2

Scientists have discovered how mosquitoes and other insects can smell carbon dioxide, a finding which might help in the discovery of more effective bug repellents. Working initiall...

Climate Change Sexes Up Seals

There's tales of gloom and doom everywhere as we hear about the dangers of climate change. Depending who you believe, we're going to drown, boil or freeze i...

Sweeping CO2 under a carpet...of lava

Researchers are planning to use the porous rocks in lava fields to combat global warming, by locking away the carbon dioxide from power stations. Peter McGrail, from the Pacific No...

Stardust Reveals Solar System's Secrets

Listeners with good memories may remember that the Stardust mission came safely back to earth in January 2006, bringing with it precious samples or dust fro...

Smoke Is Poison

Many of us here at the Naked Scientists have done our fair share of lab work, and I've handled nasty chemicals like formaldehyde and benzene with the aid of...

Bad News For Gorillas

Ebola is one of the worlds most virulent viruses and it may be wiping out the last few remaining mountain Gorillas. That's according to a study published th...

Hunting Fish Talk Team Tactics

Have any of you been watching on TV or over the internet the BBC's latest natural history documentary, Planet Earth? If you have, you might have seen the ep...

Longest Ever Golf Shot

Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin has just hit the longest golf shot ever. He did have a slight advantage over Tiger Woods though, as he was 390 km up and tr...

Hubble Given a New Lease of Life

The fifth and probably final service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope has been approved to keep it running to around 2013. Hubble was designed so that ...

The Nano Piano

Could nano-music be on the way? Probably not, but scientists at Delft University in the Netherlands have successfully made and tuned the world's smallest pi...