Boldly going where no science show has gone before.

The Naked Scientists

Hello and welcome to the Naked Scientists with me Ben Valzler and with Helen Scales.

Hello.

This week we're going to find out how Margaret Thatcher's face can tell us how monkeys recognize other monkeys faces, what sharks have in common

with serial killers, why dolphins are a bit like jet fighters, and we find out what's

going on in the mind of a pigeon as it finds its way home.

Helen.

All lots of zoology fun, but we're also looking today at new ways of putting a tiger in your

tank.

We'll find out how the life that lives in your pond could help us make eco-friendly bio-diesle

and how new types of batteries help to power electric cars for further than ever before without running out of juice.

Plus how clever engineering will help us

and create a new breed of carbon neutral electric and hybrid racing cars which

will be able to compete with the fastest internal combustion engines.

It's geared up now to do 75 miles an hour top speed.

That's because we're going around a fairly twisty turny track.

If we geared it to its full potential, it would be topping 300 miles an hour.

That's impressive.

Yes, impressive, not feasible for the racetrack, but shows that this technology can do some fairly impressive stuff.

A far cry from the golf buggy image that many people do have of electric cars.

We've also got our question of the week.

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