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The Naked Scientists.

Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists with Ben Valsela. Hello Ben.

Hello Ben. Hello Chris.

And also with me, I'm Chris Smith.

Coming up, solving the salt problems.

That's because Australian scientists have developed plants that can actually grow on salty soil and that could help some countries to avoid a future food crisis.

A very important work.

Also, how drugs that are designed to stop heart disease actually work better in some arteries than others.

The twisty ones come off worse.

But why?

And also the Rap Guide to Evolution will be meeting the man who's mutated Charles Darwin's principles of natural selection

and turn them into a one-hour rap show and that's all on the way then.

Thanks Chris. Also this week we're looking into the science of vision.

We'll be exploring the deep ocean to find out how some fish

become equipped with their own underwater search lights that emit special lights that only they can

see. We'll also be hearing how the brain decodes what the eyes are seeing as well as

experimenting with our own color vision to change the way that we can see colours.

And no LSD needed or any other hallucinogen for that matter. It's actually a very cool experiment.

If you want to have a go, all you need is some coloured plastic that you can have a look through.

We'll show you how to do the experiment later.

Meanwhile, if you'd like to get in touch with us, our email address for the program Chris at the naked scientist.com.

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