Graphene is the focus of this week's Naked Scientists, including how it holds the key to the super-flexible touch screen displays of tomorrow, super-light composites and the next generation of computer chips. In the news, a breakthrough in understanding Alzheimer's Disease, why glider pilots should be paying more attention to how falcons fly and why a new exoplanet has led astronomers to question current theories of planetary formation. Plus, we celebrate the first chunk of cheese to make it into orbit and ask if there's any evidence of a health benefit from wearing magnetic bracelets...
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A new extra high density ultracapacitor has been built with a similar energy density to batteries.
A new database could help to establish how bees see flowers, helping researchers understand more about bees, one of the world’s most important pollinators...
Alzheimer's disease is a common cause of cognitive decline among elderly people. An estimated one in every five adults over the age of 80 is affected and will develop a range of symptoms including memory loss. The cause of the disease is a build up in the brain of a protein cal...
The strategies uesd by falcons may be useful for glider pilots and unmanned air vehicles
Observations made by the Keck telescope in Hawaii have confirmed a fourth planet orbiting a nearby star but have thrown current theories of planetary formation into doubt...
An American entrepreneur launches a cheese into space
In this week’s episode of Planet Earth we’re looking at one of Britain's best loved mammals, the elusive red squirrel. They have been under threat from a squirrel pox for a number of years and in 2008, the virus decimated numbers of one of the few remaining reserves at Formby, ...
Dave and Meera visited the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics at Cambridge University to find out how graphene was first extracted, and see it in use as a basic LCD display screen...
Physicists might use sticky tape to extract and test graphene, but that's not much use when it comes to making consumer electronics. Dr Karl Coleman explains other means of manufacture...
Graphene is a very versatile material which we should soon see turning up in a range of applications. Dave spoke to James Tour, Professor of Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science and Computer Science at RICE University to learn more about graphene and its applicati...
Can Graphene be converted to Diamond-phene?
I don't understand why graphene is considered 2-dimensional. One atom thick is one atom thick... No? Why do we call it 2-dimensional when clearly, it has a third dimension?
How does graphene compare to buckminsterfullerine, which are known as bucky balls, as they were supposed to be a wonderful lubricant, but turned out to be too sticky.
I received a brochure advertising all things magnetic and claiming to cure all sorts for ailments like snoring if this object was put up the nostrils, and all sorts of aches and pains if worn on different parts of the body. Please, can you advise me if there was any evidence at ...
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