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Richard Daniel chairs the interactive environmental programme in which he and his guests deal with listeners' questions and concerns.
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|  | | | | "Home Planet, the programme that tackles your queries about the world we inhabit and our interaction with it. From astronomy to geology, biology to environmental science. You set the agenda and our panel of scientists and conservationists come up with the answers."
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Professor Philip Stott
Derek Moore
Head lice search
We are asking for your help in tracking the spread of head lice in the UK, how they are treated and how different organisations deal with outbreaks. If you have any recent experience of head lice please do let us know at home.planet@bbc.co.uk.
This week's programme:
Is it safe to feed nuts to birds in the Summer?
There have been reports of chicks choking to death on nuts so is it safe to feed nuts to birds during the summer when young chicks are around?
Information on from the British Trust for Ornithology
Comprehensive from the RSPB.
Information on some of the red kite feeding stations in the UK:
How is the Universe expanding?
The Universe has been constantly expanding since the Big Bang around 13.7 billion years ago. But how is it expanding and what is it expanding into?
A web page on from NASA.
Another view of including some useful animations.
A description of from Cambridge University.
What was impaling beetles on barbed wire fences in the Inner Hebrides?
A listener saw many beetles impaled on barbed wire fences while walking on Tiree and wanted to know what might be doing it. The panel did not have a conclusive answer, the best guess was a visiting Shrike.
The from the RSPB including video and song recordings.
The .
Picture of .
As light bends in space is it possible that light from our Universe has been bent round in a complete circle so we could be observing ourselves?
Einstein described how massive objects in space such as stars can bend light so is it possible that some light from our own Galaxy has been bent in a complete circle and we can be watching ourselves?
An article on as predicted by Einstein.
A description of .
: 麻豆官网首页入口 Report on a recent experiment showing that Einstein was right about how masses distort space.
What is the point of birds?
A listener wanted to know what was the point of bird watching and what does it matter if a species of birds died out?
The use of .
An article arguing .
from the British Trust for Ornithology.
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