Sian was told to sit in the anchor's seat and did so, wearing a borrowed (man's) jacket, no make-up and blue nail-varnish!

BBC: News - Breakfast - Sian Williams

To test this idea, Dr Hebets turned to her make-up bag and brought out two shades of nail varnish (NailSlicks, midnight metal and bronze ice, as her paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences quite properly describes in its materials and methods section, in case any other researcher wishes to replicate the experiment).

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