This week on the Naked Scientists we discover novel drugs in carnivorous plants, genes pointing to prostate cancer and a way to capture waste wattage whilst walking. We hear about the future of 3D TV, the bio fuel carbon debt and how Pirate Bay could be about to walk the plank! Also, we take on your questions, such as why do electric lights stay on in a flood, how do animals evolve camouflage and why does a fresh cut throb? Plus, we have a shocking question of the week about the workings of electric eels, and in Kitchen Science we find out how to tell which drink is diet!
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Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer for men in the UK, and now researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research have found seven genes potentially very important in the disease.
Could we generate electricity from the energy we waste while walking? Professor Max Donelan has developed a way to turn people into the human equivalent of a hybrid car...
I was always told that water and electricity don’t mix. After a second of stupidity I’m not sure this is entirely true. I put a nail through my central heating pipe and a vast quantity of water then began to drop into the ceiling space and then went through the light fitting. ...
I’ve been wondering about this question forever, I can’t find the answer anywhere. How do living things know how to evolve? Let’s take a seahorse, I don’t know its name but it looks like a piece of weed in the ocean. How does the seahorse know to turn into that?
I was interested to hear about ghrelin earlier on in the programme. I wondered if it could be used to help people who’ve got into a condition where they don’t want to eat – providing they want to have the treatment. Couldn’t it stimulate appetite?
In Arkensaw it occasionally gets very cold and I have to defrost the windshield of my truck before I drive to work in the morning. I wonder what speed I should set the fan on to get the windshield to defrost the fastest because I’ve noticed that if I breathe on my hand with my m...
Today I cut myself with a pretty sharp knife. After I sat down for a minute I felt a pulsing pain in my thumb where I cut myself. I know I’ve felt that way before when it was hurt in waves so why is it not constant?
Can the self-powering submersible be used without a pilot for a long period of time? Unlike the vessel that was used to search for the wreck of the Titanic.
Heating and cooling the average house takes a lot of energy - but filling your walls with tiny wax capsules could keep you cool in the heat of summer...
This week, Mark Peplow comes in to tell us about the moves towards holographic 3D TV, how it could take years to pay back the carbon debt of biofuels, and a new scanner that can 'read' RNA...
In the world of technology this week, copyright infringement on the "virtual" high seas as Pirate Bay goes to court, and Microsoft moves to buy Yahoo...
I have a question about electric eels. I was wondering how they, themselves, do not get hurt by the electric shocks that they use to communicate or stun prey. And if they are in water how far does the current carry?
If you are ever in a foreign country and don't know which can of drink is the sugary one, here is a way to find out.
Why do certain parts of the world such as the gulf of Mexico have only two tides a day: one high and one low when other bits of the world have four tides a day?
Sometimes when I stand up or I exert myself I see little white lights or firework displays in my vision. What is that?
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