Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

Hello and welcome to this week's naked scientists with me Dr. Chris Smith and with Dr.

Cat oni, hello, Kat.

Hello. Now on the way, hello, cat. Hello.

Now on the way, children can read your mind.

Yes, that's right.

Said so in a new study.

And also they can do it much earlier than we first thought.

So you better think about that next time you go raiding their money box.

Also, what's best for the environment and your pockets when it comes to making car journeys?

Is it a sat nav or a map and some common sense?

A good news for people with HIV because there are several new drugs in the pipeline

they hit the virus in a very new way and we'll be finding how they work.

And this week on the naked scientist we are looking at toxins, ere, the nasty stuff.

We're looking at toxins venoms poisons how do snakes spiders and

scorpions make their chemical arsenals and how do these are nums actually work

how does antivenom works for people who get bitten unfortunately?

And we're going to be finding out how doctors and farmers are making use of these substances

to develop new drugs and pesticides.

And in this week's kitchen science we've sent Ben out to find how nettles actually sting you and whether stinging nettle tea is really worth the effort.

Well now I'm going to take a handful of my nettles and I'm going to put them in my... Ah! Okay that's strike one for the nettles.

Let's hope I just don't get stung again. That sounds like a drink with a certain amount of kick,

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