Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

Hello, welcome to this week's edition of the naked scientist

from me, Chris Smith and also with Kat Arnie.

Hello, cat.

Now coming up this week, we've heard of solar cells,

but now scientists have made the world's smallest examples of them.

They're solar-powered nanowires.

They're absolutely tiny.

They're just 200 times thinner than a human hair.

So absolutely microscopic, how do they work?

Well, we'll be finding out surely.

Also, we'll be hearing how researchers have used a chemical,

which is normally found in the brain

to produce a glue that's so sticky that it'll even

bind to Teflon, so what can we do with it, and also how scientists have discovered how the human

body combats viruses and in particular hepatitis C. That's all on the way.

Also this week we are delving into particle physics

including paying a visit to the diamond synchrotron in Oxford.

That's the most expensive diamond I think we'll ever get near to.

And this is helping scientists to solve the mystery of the dead sea scrolls

Those ancient parchments that go back thousands of years, but actually too delicate to even unroll

We can take lots and lots of pictures at different angles of a piece of parchment

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