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Giggling Gorillas and Chuckling ChimpsLaughter is a wonderful thing to hear – but would you recognise it coming from anything other than a human?In a delightful study published in this week’s Current Biology, Marie Davila-Ross and colleagues at the University of Plymouth have found that what we think of as laughter today could have evol...
Squid don’t just see with their eyesSquid, those slippery denizens of the deep, may not only see through their enormous round eyes but it seems they can also detect light all along their bodies as well. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been studying the Hawaiian bobtail squid. These 3cm long squid have ink sa...
Warblers Learn who to TrustBack in February, I reported on a paper in the journal Current Biology about how Reed Warblers protect themselves from being parasitized by cuckoos. Now in a follow up paper published in this week’s Science, Nick Davies and Justin Welbergen from Cambridge University have found out how the birds lea...
Building Bridges - The Science of BeamsHave a go at the Naked Scientists Bridge Challenge and see if you can do better than we did... |
The Gruber Prize for CosmologyWe speak to Professor Robert Kennicutt: one of the first to describe the Hubble constant and now recipient of the Gruber Prize for Cosmology.
Printing Your Own HouseImagine if you could select your house on a computer screen, and simply hit print! Rupert Soar is hoping to make this a reality...
Natural Ventilation for Low-Energy BuildingsShaun Fitzgerald takes us on a tour of the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies where a giant atrium provides the necessary air conditioning.
Thermal shuttersControlling how natural light gets into a building could help to reduce energy demands and costs. Professor Stephen Gage joins us to explain how thermal shutters could turn your windows in to walls whenever you go out...
Where on Earth is the safest place for an asteroid to hit?Where would be the best place for an asteroid to strike the Earth? Would deep ocean, land or polar ice cap be the least destructive?Jerry asked the Naked Scientists:
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