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Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects

Material World: 29/03/2012

29/03/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, 29/03/2012

Gas eating bacteria, how to save the world and what stripes might do to your figure.

How Bacteria could clear up the North Sea gas leak. Why Geo engineering is being taken seriously as a tool for lessening the effects of climate change and the latest from our experiment on stripes.

A leak of gas from a platform 150 miles off the Scottish coast is causing concerns, particularly over risks of explosion. We look at the environmental effects of the gas and ways of clearing it up.  As with oil spills bacteria may play a role in its dispersal. 

An environmental conference in London this week gave scientists the chance to get together ahead of the next round of international climate change negotiations. We look at the subject of geo –engineering. Once the realm of science fiction, the idea of using chemicals to seed clouds or reflect light back from the sun is now being seen as a serious option for dealing with climate change. 

So You Want to be a Scientist. The clothes are ready for our experiment looking at the arguments over vertical versus horizontal stripes, which ones really do have a slimming or fattening effect?

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