Would a Siphon Work in Space?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2011

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Could a Siphon be used in orbit? Why do leaves change colour in Autumn? How is immunity passed from mother to baby through breastfeeding? Why do earthquakes happen away from plate boundaries? How do microwaves heat up food? We storm through your questions this week as well finding out how Twitter can be used to monitor moods around the world, how carbon dioxide can be converted back into a fuel, how biomarkers hidden inside ECG's can predict the risk of a repeat heart attack and how glowing bacteria can send secret messages! Plus, in Kitchen Science, we make flames without fire by making iron... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science, the naked scientists.
0:07.0	The Naked Scientists. I'm
0:24.6	Chris Smith and also here with us this week at Dave and so hello Dave.
0:27.3	Hello and also Dominic forward huh Dominic.
0:29.4	Hi Chris. Now together we're all taking on your science questions this week
0:33.4	concluding what makes leaves change color in the autumn, would swimming out of a
0:38.2	submarine give you the bends when you got to the surface and lots of debate on the forum about this one
0:43.8	would a siphon work on an orbiting space station Dominic?
0:48.0	Plus the messenger probe has discovered that Mercury may have had less of a hot
0:52.2	and violent history than previously thought.
0:54.9	And talking about hot and violent this week now I'm going outside to start a fire for
0:59.1	kitchen science but I'm not using matches a lighter or even rubbing two sticks together.
1:03.8	So what is he doing? You can find out later and if you'd like to get in touch with us here at the
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1:40.0	The naked scientist with Chris Smith, with Dave Anstel and Dominic Ford. And straight into outer space this week, or at least to the solar system,
1:44.0	Thonick. The journal Science has published a special issue this week,
1:48.0	presenting the first 90 days of observations from the planet Mercury by the Messenger Probe.
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