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Dr Chris Smith and company talk trout snouts, galaxies with no stars and discuss a very surprising new use for silk.

Rhod Sharp and Dr Karl are joined by Steven Goldfarb from CERN to answer questions about the search for the Higgs Boson.

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with the week's science news. Do we have the Higgs Boson and why were Cambridge scientists sending a detonation inside a tube seven times around an auditorium?

The discovery of the Higgs Boson is the focus of the debate. Dr Karl tells us it could take anytime between 10 and 100 years for the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle to be put to practical use. But he admits he has no idea what practical use that could be. David from Birmingham asks if the discovery is just going to raise more questions than it answers. Dr Karl is emphatic. Yes. And says that makes it an exciting time to be a scientist! You can also the learn the difference between an asteroid and a meteorite.

Andy Crane sits in for Rhod Sharp, and he and Dr Karl discuss why rifle bullets fly more truly when they rotate, and whether salt water floats over fresh.

The Naked Scientist describes how to win friends and influence people, how to halt Huntington's disease, and finds out about a camera with five times the resolution of the human eye.

On the latest edition of Dr Karl -why we need the Multiverse, why the earth's core is so hot and new discoveries about breast milk.

On the Naked Scientists this week...why ministers say A levels aren’t up to scratch and what one exam board are doing about it, and a plant that punishes animals that eat its seeds but rewards those that spit them out!

Dr Karl and Dr Giles explore questions about hair length, the existence of monatomic gold and whether you should breathe through your mouth or your nose in a dusty environment.

A look at ways to predict where Malaria may strike, and a way to help dyslexics read more easily.

Dr Karl discusses the transit of Venus. We discuss the quirky characteristics of water, find out why the taste of food differs from person to person and why it might be more important to wash your feet than your face.

This week Dr Chris Smith has spent time finding out about the science being done in Norway including some intriguing news about the speed of sperm in different species...

This week find out how Botany Bay increased our understanding of the world and whether hoping is better than jumping?

This week Dr Chris Smith and his Naked Scientist colleagues report on the chemical recipe for making tomatoes taste great, and the world’s biggest diamond that’s being built in Britain.

On the latest edition of Dr Karl, how your microwave oven can interfere with your home Wi-Fi. How to control the Flow of Heat, with layers just atoms thick. And does caffeine dehydrate you?

How can you walk without splilling coffee, and can actor Anne Hathaway affect the world economy?

Science news with Dr Chris Smith and colleagues. This edition; burning up body fat, the reason why dinosaurs with wind may have "wreaked" havoc with the cretaceous climate and the chimp that plans missile attacks on zoo visitors.

Dr Karl joins Dr Rhod to answer your science questions. This week; where do all the seeds come from and an eyewitness to ball lightning joins us to describe his experience.

Dr Rhod and Dr Karl are joined by food specialist Professor Charles Spence to deal with such tricky questions as; where does the skin on the porridge pan come from?

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists explore..: why women have evolved out of having beards and hairy chests, and scientists have discovered how homing pigeons’ brains respond to the Earth’s magnetic field enabling them to navigate.