- Helen Scales
Helen looks at how marine reserves in Florida and St Lucia set up to protect space rockets, and local livelihoods have affected fish stocks both inside and outside the reserves.
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- Dalya Rosner
What is a DNA fingerprint and how can it help you to solve crimes, identify a baby's father and suss out the best grapes for wine making?
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- Chris Smith
There was a time when almost every action movie seemed to involve the hero or villain becoming swamped in quicksand, sinking away until only their hat remains on the surface. But contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, although it’s almost impossible to escape from quicksand, it's even more difficult to drown...
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- Varuna Aluvihare
I am supposed to write about one of my great passions, drinking wine.
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- Claire McLoughlin
Claire McLoughlin describes the chemistry of cooking including what chemical changes occur in food when we cook it, and how does taste and flavour work ?
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- Barry Gibb
Scientists studying the Conus snail have found that it harbours a cocktail of over 50 nerve toxins in its venom, some of which have powerful painkilling (a
nalgesic) properties, and are now undergoing clinical trials.
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- Martin Westwell
A report was published warning that Britain's prosperity will suffer if the government does not come up with new money to help women scientists and engineers back to work after having children.
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- Mark Lythgoe
Functional imaging (brain scanning) using magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be used to probe the workings of the brain. But we still cannot explain what love is. In this article Mark Lythgoe argues that we are more than just the sum of our parts.
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- Chris Smith
Ask anyone who made the world’s best violins and they’ll inevitably answer "Stradivari". But science is undermining the reputation of this great instrument maker whom, it seems, owes his success as much to an attempt at pest control as his craftmanship...
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- Barry Gibb
Dr. Barry Gibb, Scientist and Author, Latest Play - MACHINA
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