Smart sensors can open a window into the environment. In this week's Naked Scientists Podcast we find out how networks of sensors around Heathrow airport can study how planes alter the atmosphere, and how a similar network can monitor an Oxfordshire floodplain. Plus, we find out how the tools of a surgeon are helping to keep jet engines in flying form. In the news, we hear how gut bugs promote blood vessel growth, why fresh fruit and veg gives you a healthy hue and how scientists are analysing antimatter with microwaves...
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Sensors are essential for our understanding of the environment around us. Now, a new project led by the University of Cambridge seeks to deploy a network of sensors around Heathrow airport in order to study the atmosphere with unprecedented resolution...
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The bacteria that live in your intestines change the way that blood vessels form inside your gut. New research identifies how this happens and offers potential new targets for treating intestinal diseases and obesity...
Your daily fruit and veg intake discernibly dictates the colour of your face, new research has shown.
Scientists have taken the first steps towards interrogating anti-matter and find out more about this mysterious material...
How you type a word could change the way you emotionally respond to it, and words typed with mainly the right hand seem to make people happier. In fact, the layout of letters on a keyboard may even be shaping the way we use language...
Invasive plant species on the Western Antarctic Peninsula, virtual models of the human body, carbon clues to help ants find their way home and policing behaviour in chimpanzees...
British scientists recently used satellites to discover a bulging dome of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean….and it’s getting bigger. But why is it there, and could it alter our climate?
Rolls Royce engines are regularly inspected to keep them in tiptop condition and running efficiently, but to do so requires technology that can access some very tricky man-made environments...
If there were a large object, say a meteorite falling straight down where I'm standing, what kind of warning would I notice? Would there be an accompanying sound that could warn people on the ground? Or would I not know until it's too late?
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