Can we trap light in a box?
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
What is light and can we trap it in a box? On this edition of CrowdScience, Marnie Chesterton brings you a kaleidoscope of colourful questions from listeners around the world, from Kampala to Chicago. Shireen asks why people have a favourite colour and whether other animals show colour preferences too. Marnie heads to the zoo to see what the birds, bees and butterflies think. There, she meets a colour-changing chameleon to find out how and why it does because of a question from Dramadri in Uganda.
Meanwhile, Paul in Melbourne is interested to know more about colour blindness. And finally, Feroze asks why we only see a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and wants to know if we might, one day, hack our vision to see beyond the seven colours of the rainbow.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producer: Graihagh Jackson
(Photo: Stardust and magic in a woman hands on a dark background. Credit: Getty Images)
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