Stripping down science, the Naked Scientists.

Hello, happy new year.

Welcome to the first edition of The Naked Scientists in 2007.

I'm Chris Smith, and also here to help with this week's show we have

Dave Anseld and Helen Scales hi hi Chris now coming up shortly we're going to be

finding out how vibrating vests are helping soldiers to send messages to each other,

how researchers have uncovered a new source of stem cells, but unlike embryonic stem cells,

these ones are much more featily friendly, and also Titan, which is Saturn's largest moon isn't the frozen

wasteland that we thought it was certainly frozen but it's dotted with lakes.

Wouldn't go swimming though they're at minus 200 degrees C. Also this week we're exploring why red wine is good for you with Roger Corder from Queen Mary's

College and finding out how caffeine affects the body with Bristol University's Peter

Rogers and Jeffrey Gordon joins us from the States where he's

discovered that bacteria living in your guts might be responsible for making you

fat. And I'll be doing this week's cool kitchen science experiment live here in

the studio to find out how salt helps salt helps keep your car on the road.

You need some ice cubes, some cotton and some salt.

Grab them now because we'll be doing it soon.

And if you're in the mood to win some prizes, Roger Corder, who's here in the studio with us, has kindly donated a copy of his book.

It's called The Wine Diet, and all you need to know about how to live long and prosper, essentially, in there.

And we also have some super calendars which have been donated by the people who run the Matangini project

and that's an initiative to try to raise money to provide clean water for people who live in Africa.

They've got some really fantastic shots of rural Africa on this calendar.

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