Stripping down science is the naked scientist with me I'm Ben

Valsler and I'll be joined this week by Chris Smith. This week we're looking at

sensors and sensor technology we'll be finding out how networks ofors can tell us what's happening in the soil and in the atmosphere around

an airport even down to seeing when an individual plane takes off.

We'll also find out how to design instruments that can delve into the tiny spaces inside a jet engine.

And I'll be joining Ben to look at this week's science news, including how eating fruit and veg can change the color of your face, and why words

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Censors are essential for our understanding of the environment around us.

Weather stations, for example, have been collecting data on wind, speed, rainfall,

pressure and humidity around the world since at least the 1940s.

And now a new project led by University of Cambridge with a host of University and industry partners

and funded by the Natural Environment Research Council

seeks to deploy a network of sensors around Heathrow Airport

in order to study the atmosphere with unprecedented resolution.

I met Dr. I'm at Dr. Ick Mead from Cambridge University to find out what it is that they hope to learn.

This project is really looking at urban air quality in the first instance, and then we're trying to tie that into specific

science questions within that specific airport questions such as the dispersion of the

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