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Why are there no lobsters in the Pacific? - The Naked Scientists But there are some spiny lobsters, including the California or red rock lobster, Panulirus interruptus, and there's also one called the green spiny lobster, and they do live on the Pacific, from California, down through into Peru and out into the Pacific as far as the Galapagos Islands There are various species that do live there
Does red really make bulls angry? | Science Questions Bulls eyes are dichromatic - they have two colour-detecting pigments in their retinae That means they can see red, but they can also see many other colours too But, because they are dichromats they would see colours in a similar way to a colour blind person In other words, there's nothing special about red; it's more likely to be that the bull is excited by someone wearing
The reason for red wine headaches is revealed Researchers in the United States say they may have cracked why some people get a headache after just one small glass of red wine, even though they are fine drinking other types of alcohol It’s all down to a natural “sunscreen” molecule made by red grapes called “quercetin” Professor Andrew Waterhouse is from the University of California Davis
Would eating too many purple carrots turn you purple? | Questions . . . Purple carrots on the other hand get their colour from anthocyanins, which are the same compound that makes red wine red And just like with red wine, you might find a purple carrot might stain your tongue, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that it also discolours your skin or that your urine turns red, like when you eat lots of beetroot
Why is the sky blue in the day and red at sunset? So that's why you get the red colouration of the sunset The other thing that affects this is how many particles there are in the atmosphere, so you tend to see much redder sunsets and yellower moons at harvest time, and at times when there's been big volcanic eruptions
Why asteroid YR4 wont collide with Earth in 2032 | Interviews There is the possibility that an asteroid called YR4 could be on an Earth-bound course with its arrival coinciding with Christmas 2032 Both NASA and the European Space Agency now say that it's highly likely it will safely pass our planet; but, can an impact be ruled out? Alan Fitzsimmons is a professor of astronomy at Queen’s University Belfast, and he’s part of the Atlas Project that
Adopt a baby lobster | Interviews - The Naked Scientists Sarah - Christmas is a time when we treat ourselves to special food we wouldn't eat all year round One of my very favourite things to eat is lobster - definitely a special occasion treat And now, a British company, Wing of St Mawes, is offering to donate 50p to the National Lobster Hatchery for every lobster bought through their website The lobsters are caught in Cornwall,
How large (or small) Is a photon? | Science Features At first glance, "How big is a photon?" might sound like a simple question After all, we think of particles as tiny bits of stuff - so surely a photon, the particle of light, has some kind of size? But when you ask a physicist, you’ll quickly discover that this question takes you into some of the strangest and most fascinating corners of quantum physics
How does measles make us sick? | Interviews - The Naked Scientists And then you think you have dealt with the measles very successfully and all in a sudden it reappears, not in the form of the little red dots and the other infections, but it is a progressive encephalitis that is almost 100% fatal Chris - And how does the body respond to all this? How does it try and fight off the virus?