Stripping down science, the naked scientist.

Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists with me, Chris Smith.

And also here this week is Kataoni.

Hello, Kat.

Hello. Now this week we're going to be finding out how a company

are offering to store a copy of your immune system on ice

until you need it.

Also how scientists have turned the rabies virus

into a nanoscale Trojan horse to help them smuggle drugs into your brain.

We'll also be finding out whether the firstborn is necessarily the brightest top of the IQ pile,

a mirror mirror on the moon. Researchers have come up with a way to build a

moon-based telescope a thousand times more powerful than the Hubble telescope. More on that

coming up shortly. Also this week it's Armageddon. What happens when the Earth is hit by a massive meteorite?

And is that really what did for the dinosaurs?

Or was it a massive volcanic eruption?

We have Janet Sumner here from the Open University to explain all that, all the apocalypse.

We'll also be shaking up the world of seismology to find out how earthquakes work

with Columbia University's Peter Kellerman,

and finding out how earthworms are helping scientists to clean up arsenic in Argentina.

And in our kitchen science this week we'll be finding out whether that old thing about tapping the top of the fizzy drinks can before you open it really does stop it spraying all down your top.

So if you want to have a go at that, grab a couple of cans of pop and we'll be linking up with Ben

and Dave Erickegs in Essex and we'll be joining them in a moment or two to find out how to do that experiment.

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