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Science.

And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.

This week it's our monthly science Q&A phone-in show and that means it's your chance to get

involved.

You send in the science questions and we put

them to our panel. Some corks we've already got in for this week. Why does the

kettle get quieter just before it boils? Why do cats eyes have slit

shaped pupils and how much water is there in the

average rain cloud. The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.

UK. Let's meet the team.

We have zoologist Max Gray.

He studies fish and he will be answering our questions on animal

antics. Caroline Steele is a physicist and she's going to be popping some corks for us later on,

sounds exciting and Max is celebrating too. It's Champagne. Max has actually just got his PhD but that's not why we're popping the corks.

Also Judith Krosten is a starry-eyed space scientist. She knows about galaxies and black holes and also Heidi Solberg-Uckland is a brain scientist

with a special interest in sleep and speech.

I'm Chris Smith, I'm a medical doctor.

Now we've met the team, we better dive straight in with this

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