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12th Aug 2007
Summer Special Naked Science Question and Answer
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This week, do diet foods make children fat? Could a space screw save us from catastrophic collisions? Have we seen the last of the Yangtze river dolphin? And should we look to the Simpsons for our science? Writer Al Jean explains that, depite the three eyed fish and three fingered hands, it's one of the most science literate shows on television. Also, as it's our Summer Special Question and Answer show we tackle your questions ranging from rising cakes to rising heart rates, why the moon looms larger on the horizon and why magnets make bad television. Plus, in kitchen science we investigate the mystery of Mr Matey's colour changing bubble bath!
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News
US researchers have found that giving young animals diet foods can trigger obesity by encouraging overeating behaviours, suggesting that the same thing could happen to young children. Writing in the journal Obesity, University of Alberta researcher David Pierce and his colleagues have found that giv...
If you happen to look up tonight you ahould be in for some cosmic fireworks. It is the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower tonight and it is a new moon so the sky should be very dark so the meteors stand out really well, teh best conditions for the next 15 years in fact.
The Perseids are so ca...
We often hear about coral reefs being the rainforests of the sea – both habitats are packed full of thousands of species and sadly both are being lost at ever more alarming rates.And this week we’ve heard a piece of really bad news for coral reefs, because they may be disappearing much more quickly ...
Although space scientists are confident that they have mapped the majority of "near Earth objects" that could conceiveably collide with us, and found that we're safe for now, there's always the possiblity that something unexpected might happen. Like the asteroid Apophis, which will slip pa...
I don’t mean to be the harbinger of bad news – but it happens this week we’ve had another piece of important but incredibly depressing news from the aquatic world.It looks like we might have to wave goodbye to the Yangtze river dolphin in China. Researchers from Zoology Society of London (ZSL) repor...
Interviews
Nature's Micheal Hopkin spoke to Al Jean about how The Simpsons is, perhaps surprisingly, one of the most scientifically literate shows around.
We spoke to Professor Paul Halpern, author of "What's Science Ever Done for Us?: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life and the Universe”
Kitchen Science
We were asked why it is that Mr Matey bubble bath changes colour when you mix it with water. We did an experiment to find out, and you could find out too!
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