Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

Hello, well welcome to this week's naked scientists.

I'm Chris Smith and I'm joined this week by Katani. Hi Kat.

Hello.

Now coming up shortly how scientists have got to the root of hair replacement,

so that's good news for anyone that's going a bit thin on top

but bad news if you make wigs for a living.

Also, a new much safer way to make hydrogen to power out our clean cars in the future.

A virus that's been programmed to kill cancers

and why a dose of herpes could actually be good for you.

Sounds nasty.

I still don't believe that one.

Also this week we're focusing on the science of the atmosphere.

We're going to be catching up with Abarisked with

University's John Grattan to hear about the worst atmospheric pollution event in history, which I reckon was Chris

farting or something like that.

What was it really?

Keep listening to find out.

We'll also be talking with Jonathan Shanklin from the British Antarctic survey and he was one of the

team of scientists who discovered the hole in the ozone layer back in the 1980s.

So he's going to be chatting a bit about what the ozone layer is, how it protects our planet

and whether it's still there, you know, is the whole

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