Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

Hello and welcome to a very special edition of the naked scientists which comes to you this week from two cities, in two two countries in two continents and in two

hemispheres is all the twos and that's because we're in Cambridge England that's

where Katani and Helen Scales are hello to both of you Hello. And I'm Chris Smith and I'm in

Johannesburg in South Africa and we'll be finding out why shortly. Now on this

week's show which has a distinctly spacy flavor we'll also be finding out

our scientists have for the first time cloned primate cells so move

over Dolly the sheep and welcome to Monti the monkey also how chocolate might have

ended up on the menu as a byproduct of beer making and we'll also be hearing

why wearing the wrong sized shoes

could cost you more than just a blister. That's all on the way. Also this week we are

exploring the realms of deep space with Brian Schmidt he's here to explain how he and his colleagues have discovered that the universe is getting bigger.

And the older it gets, the faster it grows, like us all, I guess.

Anyway, we'll also be getting the low down on the most powerful telescope in the southern hemisphere,

and it's over in South Africa, where Chris is.

It's powerful enough to spot a candle flame flickering on the moon, and we're joined by

Case race Jake, who will be telling us how it works.

Also on the way, how researchers have spotted a large system of planets,

five of them, orbiting a distant star,

and how the human body copes with the demands of spaceflight.

Plus, in a rather special kitchen science this week we'll be finding out whether the object

that landed on one of our listeners was indeed from outer space.

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