Naked Science Question and Answer and New Horizons

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2006

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Answering all your cosmic conundrums this week are Drs Chris, Dave and Phil who discuss why blood is red, the size of the ozone hole, how to make magnets, the best way to get rid of excess mucus, and sticking with the gooey theme, Adam Summers discusses how some tarantulas keep a firm hold on the ground by producing sticky silk from their feet. Moving much further away from terra firma, New Horizons scientist Hal Weaver talks about the mission to Pluto, what they hope to find there and why the Kuiper Belt objects are so intriguing, and in Kitchen Science, Derek Thorne and Hugh Hunt carry out... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science, the Naked Scientists.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to this week's edition of The Naked Scientists with me, Chris Smith, with Dave Ansel, and also with Phil Rosenberg.
0:16.2	Hey everybody.
0:17.2	This week it's our naked scientist science phone in and we're answering your science
0:21.8	questions. You just send them in by telephone text or email.
0:24.4	Phone in 0849-25, 2000. You can text us on 07-7620, 1960 or email us on Chris at Naked Scientists.com.
0:35.8	Also this week we'll be finding out how scientists have come up with a sniffle-free
0:39.6	feline for people with catalogists, how doctors have done the first weightless operation ever,
0:46.0	and how an ancient mountain range may have triggered off life as we know it.
0:49.0	Chees Dave!
0:50.0	Also, we'll be hearing an update on the new Horizons mission which blasted off early this year to explore Pluto and the mysteries of the outer soul system over 6 billion kilometers from the sun.
1:00.0	Temperature out there gets to a chilly minus 230 degrees C and on live what he expects to find out there. And if you're in the mood to win something, we've got a fabulous electronics kit to give away tonight.
1:16.0	It's been donated by noise makers.
1:18.0	And noise makers are sponsored by the EPSRC, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. It's a group of scientists that
1:24.5	like to go out and make a noise about science and they've given us this fantastic
1:28.1	electronic experimental kit. You can do over 30 different experiments with it and if you'd
1:31.9	like to have a go at
1:33.4	our competition science fact or science fiction this evening or have a stab at
1:37.3	this week's teaser which is Dave.
1:39.1	What is the smallest bone in the body? So if you want to do that give us a ring on 845 25 2000.
1:45.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast powered by UK Fast, the UK's best hosting provider on the web at UKfast.net.
1:55.0	Now I don't know if either of you are affected by allergies and allergies to animals at that.
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