- Dalya Rosner
It's funny how the microscopic world of bacteria and viruses are so similar to the macroscopic world of human migrants... A look at life from a germ's point of view.
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- Bob Bury
Radiologist Bob Bury puts the case for screening the population for preventable, and less preventable, diseases. and looks at the strong emotions it can create.
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- Danielle Turner
Can we all be brilliant? Bit by bit thousands of researchers are trying to untangle the workings of the brain. But how near are we to understanding what turns some people's brains on and gives them a competitive advantage?
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- Mary O'Neill
One of the fun things about working in science is the scientific meeting. Lots of free tea and coffee, buffet lunches, an evening of free booze and a lovely dinner. But how to make the most of them?
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- 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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- Manjir Samanta-Laughton
What is consciousness, how does the brain generate the experience of consciousness, and how are scientists trying to unravel a subject, traditionally termed 'the hard problem, which has frustrated the best minds for decades ?
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- Chris Smith
A material designed originally to help rockets blast into space (Cytomatrix) is now helping scientists in America to grow stem cells in large numbers outside the body, potentially ushering in a new field of medicine where doctors prescribe cells rather than drugs.
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- Varuna Aluvihare
I am supposed to write about one of my great passions, drinking wine.
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- Helen Scales
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) aims to regulate the trade in animal and plant species threatened with extinction throu
gh worldwide trade, legal or illegal. Helen has a look at its workings.
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- Robert Stanforth
Coincidences are just waiting to happen. For all those times you've witnessed uncanny events, or had cause to utter 'small world', mathematics will explain them before you can say the words 'conspiracy theory'. Rob explains the basis of 'Gambler's Fallacy'
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