Insect expert Eleanor Drinkwater takes on this listener's question
Answers to Science Questions
We need to do something to combat superbugs...
Leftover from the Industrial Revolution, mining waste could in theory be a way to sequester carbon...
The scale of the task means we need to direct our energy in the places that need it most...
The potential consequences of spicy eating challenges...
Marine mammals must come up for air....
The astonishing finding from the site of the Chernobyl disaster...
The similarities between heartbreak and withdrawal...
Preventing pipes from furring up...
The grudge these animals may have developed for holidaymakers...
How can weather services know when lightning strikes occur?
And do we need to change the temperature...
Or would they die of diseases their immune system couldn't protect against?
And how they work...
Does life require water or a different solvent?
What could make that happen...
Are we too tough on them...
And why it doesn't have the same impact on your breath...
Or is it more of a design issue...
What other impacts will it have on the human body...
Is it as much about translation as maths ability...
How do they help us get by....
How is the year of AI affecting work in astrobiology or material science?
How do we know they're not having other environmental impacts...