Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

The Naked Scientists. Why do we see stars when we take a knock on their head? How does a fly fly in rising or dropping lift and do slugs and snails fill pain when you do some with slug pellets?

Hello, it's Sunday June the 17th,

my name's Chris Smith, and also with us today

for our naked scientist, science,

phone in extravaganza, is Diana, O' Carroll.

Hello, Diana.

Hello, and also on the way, news this week from outside the solar system the

Voyager probe is now picking up powerful radiation signals in deep

space but what does that tell us plus I'll be heading to the kitchen with Dave Ansel what have you got in store for us?

Well I'll show you how to make some amazing slow motion waves inside a bottle.

If you want to have a go you'll need a bottle, a couple ofers of cooking oil and if you want to make it look pretty some food coloring

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And Karen got in touch with us and she's been doing I guess a bit of gardening. Hello Karen

Hello Grace. How are you? So what have you been doing in your garden?

Well at the moment I'm a cutflower farmer's apprentice and we grow lots of seedlings and young plants that they've been

They suffered a lot with slug and snail damage this year and we don't like killing them and so we've been trying

various methods of management but wondered if they actually do feel pain and what's the most humane way to deal with them.

Someone actually asked us a little while back whether fly spray is painful as a way to bring blue

bottles to their end.

And when I said, well, it probably wasn't very pleasant for the fly, they said, oh, good, well,

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