Live from the BBC The Naked Scientists.

Hello welcome to this week's edition of The Naked Scientists with me Chris Smith and also with Helen Scales.

Hi Chris.

This week, how to combat collisions?

Yes, scientists are looking at the insect world for the solution to road rage and all kinds

of crashes on Britain's roads.

How are we going to make them

safer? Well it turns out that insects have their very own ability to avoid

bumping into things. And scientists now reckon they can borrow from biology and

apply that to cars to make them less able to crash into each other too.

We'll be finding out how this evening.

Also on tonight show, social insects, how ants, wasps and bees live together and interact together.

How does that relationship come about? How do they help each other?

And is it just ants wasps and bees? Or are we on the trail of finding other kinds of

social insects lurking out there somewhere in the wilds of Thailand? We'll be finding out from

William Foster from

Cambridge University this evening and also bio-luminescence. If you don't know what

that means you must have heard of glowworms and fireflies. How do they make

that animal light? That's the amazing

chemical findings that we're going to be looking about looking into later on this

evening with someone from the University of Cardiff. He's coming on the

phone and also have you ever been stung by a jellyfish?

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