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Stripping Down Science, The Naked Scientists

Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists with Phil Rosenberg

Hi.

Dave Ansel, hi there.

And I'm Chris Smith.

Now this week, putting the brakes on car accidents, scientists have come up with a much

better way to warn motorists when the car in front is stopping, and on the subject of

pile-ups, NASA have a new way to

avoid cosmic collisions between the Earth and nearby asteroids. We'll be finding out about that

later, plus how pollution is turning mountaintops into virtual deserts as the rainfall declines.

Find out why. Also this week, pollution in your petrol. As some major retailers admit

that supplies were contaminated, we'll be finding out what cost thousands of cars to grind to a halt. Plus, we're bringing you the lowdown on the Cambridge Science Festival, which kicks off next week. And this week we've got a great kitchen science experiment for you to try. We'll be showing you how to see the invisible. All you need is some vinegar, some bycometer of soda and a torch. Find out how it works in a few minutes' minutes time. If you're in the mood to win some stuff, then this week we've got the most incredible prize. We've got two tickets for you to go and see Al Gore. That's the real Al Gore who ran against President Bush in the recent US elections. He'll be talking on March the 26th in Cambridge about the inconvenient truth. That's the story of climate change. Or if you'd rather,

and you don't want to go and see Al Gore, we'll dig you up a mud-powered clock, I should think.

To win it, can you tell us, if we replaced the sun with an electric bar fire, how many one-kilawatt

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