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
Why is blood red? | Science Questions - The Naked Scientists Haemoglobin's a protein - in fact it's four proteins stuck together - and in the centres of each of those four proteins there is an iron (Fe) atom, which gives haemoglobin its red hue But blood isn't exclusively red Some drugs can bind to haemoglobin and alter the chemistry of the iron atom, causing the blood to change colour
How fungi shape our world | Podcasts - The Naked Scientists This episode of The Naked Scientists was brought to you in partnership with the health foundation Wellcome This week, the first in a two-part series on the hidden world of fungi What we do - and don’t - know about them, and how the fungal landscape is set to shift as our climate changes
The origin of Europes MS disease, and South Pole sequencing It's not red So it doesn't have the haemoglobin molecule, the red molecule that we all have in our body that carries oxygen around And so these fish survive without haemoglobin They only carry about 3% of the oxygen that a normal fish would
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Seismology:Understanding Extreme Earth | Interviews Give them colours, red and blue, they relate to regions in the Earth where the velocity is slightly or slightly lower, and we think we can link those to regions in the Earth where the temperature is slightly higher or slightly lower
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