- Andrew Caines
So what exactly is linguistics? Is it all about tape recorders, tongue twisters and dropped "aitches"? Or is it all adventure, exploration and the search for undiscovered languages among rainforest tribes? Well, it's both, and in this article Andrew Caines tells us more...
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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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- Becky Poole
Just as winter follows summer, the chances are you'll catch a cold this winter - but what is the sticky stuff that pours from your nose and clogs up your sinuses? Becky Poole unwraps the handkerchief to find out...
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- Stephanie Modi
The lymphatic system is your body's drainage system. It collects the excess fluid that surrounds cells and returns it to the bloodstream, picks up fats from the intestines and primes the immune system about pathogens...
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- Emma Jarvis
For the last 75 years the average IQ test score has been increasing in every industrialised country in the world. Are we really more intelligent than our grandparents?
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- Peter Brennan
We humans don't really appreciate the sense of smell. Mark has a look at this underrated sense, in various parts of the animal kingdom. Peter Brennan describes how smells called pheromones can influence our sexual behaviour and how pheromones work
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- Claire McLoughlin
Claire McLoughlin describes the chemistry of love and what happens when we fall in love, including substances that make us feel turned on, the neurotransmitters involved in orgasm and pheromones, the mediators of sexual attraction.
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- Paraminder Dhillon
Humans are one of the most formidable species on Earth. How have modern Homo sapiens come to reign over their archaic forebears, in the course of hominid evolution?
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- Bruce Wright
The marine ecosystem in Alask has undergone a dramatic ecosystem shift: over just 20 years, previously-abundant shrimp and herring have vanished to be replaced by cod and sharks. Conservationist Bruce Wright finds out why...
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- Davina Stevenson
Nature produces a seemingly limitless number of compounds that are valuable for treating disease. Over 30% of the top-ten drugs prescribed in hospitals owe their origins directly to nature. In this article Davina explores how drugs find their way out of a plant and into a patient.
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