Boldly going where no science show has gone before.

The Naked Scientists.

Hello, welcome to the naked scientist this week with me Chris Smith and also with

Katani Helica. Hello. Now in this week's show a tough nut to crack that's the

problem of peanut allergy but now researchers say that they've made a breakthrough in helping to desensitize people

and we'll be finding out how.

Also, survival cancer. The screening rates are actually going up.

That's a good thing.

But it's still a major problem problem and we'll be hearing why

and scientists have discovered what mates bacteria that cause meningitis so deadly

we'll be finding out how in just a second cat Kat. Thanks, Chris.

Also this week we're celebrating the launch of the International Year of Astronomy.

2009 marks 400 years since Galileo made his first observations of the heavens above,

and it all kicked off appropriately

enough with a party at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. We're looking to use the

International University of Astronomy as an opportunity to inspire people to make

them enthusiastic about astronomy to find out things they haven't found out before,

to go outside at night and look up at the sky, and that will hopefully have the effect of increasing

the number of scientists we have in the UK and helping the UK develop its science-based economy.

Starry-eyed stuff.

Steve Owens will be explaining what the International Year of Astronomy has in store for us very shortly.

Plus, we'll also be hearing what researchers have discovered inside a giant cloud of

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