Pain relief - the contributions of genes, spider venom and chillies
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How Chillies trick your mouth into thinking it is hot and how this is related to tarantulas.
How doctors deal with pain, what painkillers do to you and what pain does to you.
Geoff Woods has been researching why some people are unable to feel pain, and how this could be useful for medicine.
Anna looks at how colour is involved in finding and choosing a mate, in the animal and human kingdoms.
Why is it that when you pour cola in a glass with ice, there's more foam than when you pour it in a glass with no ice?
Can two black holes merge together if they get close enough to each other?
How is it that visible light and radio waves are harmless, but microwaves and gamma rays have adverse effects on life? There seems to be no linear path from the least harmful to the most harmful in the spectrum. The harmless waves seem to be interspersed with the harmful ones as ...
Why does water bubble when it boils?
At this time of the year you often get cold hands. A quick but painful way of warming them up is by sticking them into warm water. If pain is a sign of damage, is this actually damaging your hands and what's happening when your hands are coming back to life?
Although it's freezing in England right now, on the other side of the world the sun is shining. So in honour of the sun-drenched Antipodes, Derek goes for a BBQ at the house of our very own Ozzie Hugh Hunt.
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