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Herpes Simplex Viruses: Cold Sores and Genital Herpes

Chris Smith

What causes cold sores and genital herpes, how do herpes viruses cause disease, why do herpes infections persist for life and how can cold sores and genital herpes be treated, and how does this all relate to Romeo and Juliet?

Flies are creatures of habit

Bjoern Brembs

Flies are creatures of habit - at least that's what the latest research on the fruit fly Drosophila has found. In this article Bjoern Brembs explains how a marine snail started him on the road to uncover the brain basis of learning...

(c) St. George’s, University of London

How The Lymphatic System Works

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...

(c) Niki K

The Science of HIV & AIDS in the UK

Helen Carter

There are five million new cases of HIV internationally every year, and the virus is second only to tobacco as the leading cause of death worldwide. But what is HIV, how does it cause disease, what is AIDS, how do anti-AIDS drugs work, and what does HIV mean for Britain?

(c) Ana Rossi

The Ion Channel: Through the Keyhole

Ana Rossi

Ion channels are miniature pores in the membranes of cells. They're the gatekeepers controlling which ions can move into and out of cells, meaning that they control almost every aspect of life itself. This also means they're important drug targets. But to develop effective and selective agents to hit just the right channel means that scientists need to understand the precise structure and workings of each of them. A daunting task, but now new technology has provided a way to do just that...

CSI Swansea

Richard Johnston

CSI has come to Swansea. But rather than solving murders, for a team at the University's Technology Centre (UTC) in Materials it's all about getting young people involved in investigating why materials fail and what makes metals strong. And despite being slightly less sinister than its Miami-based TV counterpart, it can nonetheless exert a powerful pull on prospective undergraduate students, as materials scientist Richard Johnston explains...

(c) Michelle Errera

The Oracle at Delphi - Not Just Hot Air

Emma Gatti

The Pythia, the prophetess at the Oracle of Delphi, was said to be able to communicate with Apollo by going into a trance. But science has shown that these trances weren't down to divine intervention - instead they were the result of inhaling noxious gases from nearby geological fault lines...

(c) Royal Astronomical Society

The Biggest Solar Storm in History

Stuart Clark

When the clipper ship Southern Cross sailed into a living hell off Chile during the night of 2 September 1859, little did the sailors know that they were witnessing the aftermath of a gigantic solar explosion that had engulfed the Earth. Today, astronomers are still unpicking the consequences of this tremendous event.

Science in the Lap of Luxury

Chris Smith

The feasibility of a female oestrus amongst humans had been dismissed by the masses. But now a study of tipping amongst lap-dancers has confirmed that oestrus appears to be alive and kicking...

Putting the coke in Coke

Philip Strange

Surprising as it sounds, one of the world's top tipples a century ago was laced with cocaine. And although the manufacturers have changed the recipe in recent years, Coca Cola is still a market leader, but why was the cocaine there in the first place, and where does the drug come from?

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