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Why are there no lobsters in the Pacific? | Naked Science Forum In California one may surf as it's mostly unprotected shoreline with lots of surf and sandy beaches, Maine has quiet, tranquil waters surrounded by rocks and the lobster flee whenever that is about to change each winter In short, lobster just aren't adaptable enough to survive outside of their niche environment
The reason for red wine headaches is revealed - The Naked Scientists 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 Andrew - So I was talking to a winemaker in Napa Valley and he was having trouble with wine headaches and I said, 'you know, I think one possibility is there's a compound in
Red squirrels and a tropical Antarctica | Podcasts - The Naked Scientists Red squirrels used to be the most common squirrel in Britain But since the grey squirrel was introduced from the USA as an illegal immigrant in the late 1800s, their numbers have nose-dived It's not just competition for food; grey squirrels brought a deadly virus with them which has hit red squirrel populations hard Sue Nelson goes to one of the last red squirrel strongholds in the country
How the red kite came back from the brink - Naked Scientists Red kites have gone from being globally threatened and extinct in England to a situation where the Chilterns now have more than 10% of the world's population, which is phenomenal So the fact that the UK can take part in conservation of internationally threatened species is significant, but I think more interestingly is the effect that the
Why does red mixed with green make yellow? | Science Questions If you think a the way a TV works, it sends out red and green and blue and makes a coloured picture But it's adding something all the time Paint is always taking something away It's a fundamentally different way of doing something An interesting aside to that is that when you take a picture with your camera, it records red, green and blue
Does a red sky at night really mean nice weather ahead? So it was a sign of bad weather And red sky in the evening, you know, was the reverse, and it meant that the sun setting in the west was shining on the clouds going away to the east, and therefore the bad weather was going away So weather proverbs are not without value They've been honed over the years
Why do you go red when sunburnt? | Science Questions - The Naked Scientists Chris - Would anti-inflammatories, like aspirin, make you feel better if you've got sunburn? Kat - They'll help to relive the pain, and they may help to take the inflammation down, but of course the most sensible thing is don't get sunburnt in the first place
Could red shift just be the colour of the star? Dominic - Stars certainly do come in wide variety of colours Hotter stars will tend to be bluer than cooler stars like Betelgeuse which are comparatively red But when you're looking for the red shift, looking at the frequency shift which is associated with the velocity of that star, what you're looking at are spectral lines
Why is gooseberry jam red when gooseberries are green? Sarka - This question also really intrigued me My mother often makes jam from green gooseberries and the colour is never red but rather dark yellow or light orange It's a colour change either way Charis - We also had a mixed response on Facebook Jodi Knight thinks it's just the difference in the colour of gooseberry used
Why are the cones in our eyes red, green and blue? They're not actually red, green and blue at all, although that's what we tend to call them They're actually blue, green and yellow The long wavelength cone absorbs mainly in the yellow and not in the red, so that's how we can see yellow