Boldly going where no science show has gone before.

The Naked Scientists.

Hello and welcome to this week's naked scientist with me cat Arnie and with Dave Ansel,

hello and Cambridge.

And we have Chris Smith who's out in Los Angeles.

Hello.

Lucky bugger.

In this week's show we'll be hearing how scientists have developed a new way to look inside the body but without resorting to harmful x-rays.

Instead, they're using lasers.

We'll find out how genetic researchers have made a giant leap,

or should that be a rather slow lumber forward in genetic sequencing

by sequencing the woolly mammoth genome,

and we'll be getting to grips with an ultra-slippery material

that could save millions of pounds every year.

That's all on the way, Chris.

Thank you very much, Kat, and yes, it's very nice and warm here in LA.

This week is of course our science Q&A extravaganza

when we'll be answering your science questions for you, including finding out if... science We'll also be finding out how space probes use planets to give them a slingshot and speed them up on their way across the solar system and also why trees lose their leaves in winter some of the time.

Dave.

Thanks Chris and this week I've got a ghostly kitchen signs for you so if you want to join in with the experiment you'll need to get a friend a couple of torches and a window it's right you can leave it attached to the house and I'll be telling you what to do shortly.

We'll also be catching up with our technology expert Chris Valence,

who's got good news for anyone caught short looking for a loo.

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