- Chris Muirhead
Superconductors are amazing materials whose resistance drops to zero when cooled. Chris looks at how they can be used to detect Pulsars, receive mobile messages, and make trains levitate.
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- Kat Arney
How can you be sure the wonderful facts and figures we science writers tell you are genuine? Just think about the stories that hit the newspaper headlines - how do we know they are accurate, and that the science is correct?
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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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- Anne Hinton
International Polar Years commenced in 1882-3, as the inspiration of Austrian explorer and naval officer Lieutenant Karl Weyprecht. They act as a means of bringing together scientists from around the world in a concentrated effort to further studies of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The third such 'year' runs from 2007-9, but what are its aims this time?
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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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- Bob Bury
Consultant radiologist, Dr. Bob Bury, discusses public perception of risk and how we assess risk in the context of exposing patients to X-rays and other forms of ionising radiation.
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- Kat Arney
Imagine if you could turn your muscles into blood cells, or turning your bone marrow into muscle. How about changing your blood to brain cells, then back again, or making a spare liver from your bone marrow?
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- Martin Westwell
As the war continues against "lad culture" which, according to David Blunkett, is responsible for boys' consistently poor exam results. What arethe real differences between boys and girls?
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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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- Alex Thompson
What's the evidence that the world's becoming a warmer place, or are claims of climate change quite literally just hot air? Atmospheric scientist Alex Thompson puts the greenhouse effect under the spotlight...
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