Clean Water and Alien Invasions
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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 makes yeast live longer, how microbes in mosquitoes can block malaria and how planting trees could reduce your electricity bills. We hear about the European Space Agency's Planck and Herschel missions to study the formation of galaxies and the fate of the universe, and in Kitchen Science, we explore the carbonated chemistry of fizzy water!
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Thursday 14th May, all being well, we are going to see the launch of the European Space Agency’s Herschel and Planck missions which are studying the formation of stars and galaxies and background radiation, all sorts of exciting things. Dr Anthony Challinor joined us to explain...
Discover what happens when you make water fizzy, why it then tastes so tangy and why this could cause problems for shellfish.
The Great Cam Cleanup is a volunteer project to help keep the river Cam clean by picking out the litter, bikes and shopping trolleys that get dumped every year. Ben Valsler went along to help out...
How foreign species are coming here and taking all our niches...
Alan Titchmarsh gives his recommendations on the perfect pond and Jeremy Biggs extolls the virtues of pond making on a grand scale.
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Can you ask if the people working with mosquitoes (the news story Kat covered earlier) had considered using the bacteria in their guts to develop a protection for humans or whatever?
Can you do aerobatic stunts like a loop-the-loop or a barrel roll in large aeroplanes such as Airbus A380s and Boeing 747s?
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