Spiders. Just uttering that word around some people can send shivers up the spine and electrical signals to muscles in their legs, catapulting them out the room. Our guest today, Dr. Sara Goodacre from the School of Biology, deals with spiders on a daily basis and has found that spiders are more than just creepy crawlies we tell ourselves aren't in the walls...

Female Tarantula showing defensive hair loss...Dr Goodacre is an evolutionary biologist, looking at spiders in particular detail, working in Nottingham's 'SpiderLab'. For example, their choice to let the wind disperse them around the environment is of interest, as is the odd fact that some species of spider have many more females than males - something never seen in Physics.

On today's show, we talk you through the life of spiders and bust those spider myths you've grown up with. From the smallest (~millimetres) and to the largest (~12 inches), we have all your spider needs covered!

How many spiders are in your warm and comfy Unipol-accredited house? Find out Monday 11th February, 6-7pm only on URN...

After the (blisteringly cold) success of last year, The Science Show are once again venturing out of the comforts of the studio and broadcasting LIVE from the observatory on the roof of the physics building.

Jupiter and its Moons: Will our telescope match this kind of power?

Join us on our adventure through space as the team and this weeks special guest Jamie Ownsworth explain to you why stars appear as different colours in the sky, what a supernova is, and how to find different constellations.

If the weather plays ball as it is this morning we may even get some snaps of the night sky such as Jupiter's moons, our just our own moon if we are feeling uninspired.

Will we get some pictures? Will the weather (and our guest) behave? Or will we possibly suffer an embarrassing power cut like the Super Bowl did last night?

There's only one way to find out. tune in tonight at 6pm, only on urn1350.net

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The Broadcast Begins!

So we are here, live at the telescopes at the University of Nottingham. We are all set up and ready to go!