- 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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- Karen Smith
e-Science, including telemedicine, has the potential to revolutionise patient care. Grid technology can ensure flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among individuals, institutions and resources.
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- Barry Gibb
Chips that can plug into the brain and translate thoughts to computers, or help paralysed people to move are no longer just fanciful science fiction. These new interfaces could revolutionise our how we control and interact with technology.
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- Martin Westwell
I am organising a public event in Oxford entitled "The Science of Wine Tasting". I thought that people would be really keen but when I mentioned it to a colleague she said, "Well, that'll take all then fun out of it".
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- Dalya Rosner
Caffine seems to be vital for the functioning of the modern world, from keeping drivers awake to getting that last minute essay in on time. But why is it in the interests of the plants to make such a compound?.
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- Barry Gibb
Nanomedicine, nanotechnology and nanoengineering are the future of science and medicine. Barry Gibb describes how the ability to shrink technology to the level of an individual cell and carry out repairs at the molecular level are not just science fiction.
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- Jamil Bacha
Transposons are pieces of DNA that have jumped their way around our genome throughout evolution. What are transposons, how have they shaped us,
and how much of our DNA do we actually use ?
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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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- Jemima Stockton
Whether you love or loath the white stuff, it is unavoidable on your TV and in your paper. What is milk, is it good for us, and what type should we drink?
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- Peter Brennan
What is a smell? A smell is the sensory response to chemicals known as odourants, which are carried by the air around us. Both single chemicals and complex mixtures of many chemicals produce the sensation of a single smell or odour.
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