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CrowdScience: Can we trap light in a box?

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Can We Trap Light in a Box?

Can we trap light in a box?

BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Can we trap light in a box?

What is light and can we trap it in a box? Marnie Chesterton investigates.

Marnie Chesterton brings you a kaleidoscope of questions from listeners around the world, including one from Andrew about whether or not it’s possible to trap light in a box.

What is light and can we trap it in a box? On this edition of CrowdScience, Marnie Chesterton brings you a kaleidoscope of colourful questions from listeners around the world, from Kampala to Chicago. Shireen asks why people have a favourite colour and whether other animals show colour preferences too. Marnie heads to the zoo to see what the birds, bees and butterflies think. There, she meets a colour-changing chameleon to find out how and why it does because of a question from Dramadri in Uganda. 

Meanwhile, Paul in Melbourne is interested to know more about colour blindness. And finally, Feroze asks why we only see a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and wants to know if we might, one day, hack our vision to see beyond the seven colours of the rainbow.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton
Producer: Graihagh Jackson

(Photo: Stardust and magic in a woman hands on a dark background. Credit: Getty Images)

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