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The Naked Scientists

Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists with Cat

Hello.

And also with me, Chris Smith.

Now coming up, I see oil, how much oil is there lurking under the Arctic?

And moreover, should we even think about going there to

look for it. Also eat oily fish once a week that's what we're told but is that

sound advice we've got some biochemical evidence to back it up and also where did leprosy come from? A

4,000 year old body buried in India is just about to give us some vital clues

cats. Thanks Chris. Also this week we're talking biomimetics, that's borrowing from biology.

We'll be hearing how scientists have copied the chemical that keeps a bumblebee's wings flapping

and they think that they can use it to beat bad backs.

Also how bamboo looks set to be the building material of the future and how

Bombardier Beatles, which are equipped with their very own high pressure combustion chambers, could

hold the key to better engine efficiency.

We know that we can without using a huge amount of pressure to atomize the fuel, which is what

usually happens.

We know that we can do this with much lower pressures, albeit we're using a vapor explosion idea from the

beetle, so we are using some pressure but nowhere near the pressures that people

use at the moment. So it's all the bees this week, bumble bees, bamboo, bad backs,

bombardir beetles, biomimetics. And with all those bees, we've also got some peas because Ben and Dave will be here later

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