Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

Hello and welcome to this week's naked scientists with me, Chris Smith, back fresh from Australia.

I'm joined this week by our space

scientist Phil Rosenberg, hi Phil. Hi Phil! Hi, and also our physics guru Dave Ansel.

Hi there. Now coming up this week we're taking a look at any science questions you've got for us because it's our science

Q&A show the contact details for that are coming up very very shortly.

Plus we'll also be finding out why scientists are swollen with success having found a chemical with Viagra-like

properties in the venom of a tarantula. We'll also be hearing how scientists are

using fish to guide submarines underwater and how NASA have launched their

new telescope which they're hoping to

understand a bit more about how planets form around nearby stars. It went up

into the air this week, not the way you'd expect though, it was on a Jumbo jet.

Also this week we'll be hearing how doctors have used maggots to get rid of MRSA in diabetics with

us and we'll also be catching up on the latest discoveries from the world of

chemistry including white tomatoes used to taste like cucumbers,

and how beetles use the smell of bees to come in the hives.

And in this week's kitchen science I'll be showing you how to build a camera.

If you want to have a go, all you need is a magnifying glass and a window.

There's a point for first person through on the phone with the correct results.

And also another way to win something, and that's a copy of my book by the way,

Naked Science, it's full of fun and funky science stories like the kind you'll hear

here on the Naked Scientist, is to have a go at our teaser this week.

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