- Anne Holden
The Hubble Space Telescope has been sending us back incredible pictures of the cosmos. How have recent policy changes affected it's future?
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- Adel Fattah
SEX: A short word. Often used. Often used to sell products in fact. Yet it is one of our base instincts, one of our prime motivations in life. So why do we find the opposite sex so attractive? And why do we need sex anyway?
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- Bob Bury
Ultrasound Scans (USS), and now Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), allows us to visualise body tissues in high resolution, without the risks associated with the use of ionising radiation such as X-Rays. Bob Bury explains how ultrasound scans and MRI scanning works.
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- Mark Tester
Genetic modification (GM) is the heritable alteration of the genetic make-up of an organism, and is a natural process as old as genes themselves. Mark has a look at artificial and natural genetic modification.
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- Mary O'Neill
This article illustrates the kind of scientist you might encounter in a lab. Understanding how your colleagues think and behave is useful. There is also a strong possibility you may recognise yourself too, so beware!
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- Reto Schneider
What happens when a human child grows up with a chimpanzee brother? Does a dog think that a robot dog belongs to the same species? If three men meet who all think they are Jesus, how do they decide who is right? The answers to these questions you can find in by peer reviewed scientific research. Swiss science writer Reto U. Schneider collected them for years and published them in the “The Mad Science Book”. Now he is wondering: which one is the weirdest of them all?
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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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- Martin Westwell
The recently discovered traces of ricin in a makeshift laboratory in a flat in London have caused a media frenzy over its potential use in a terrorist attack. What is it?
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- John Gamel
Is urine bad? Yes, when it ends up on the bathroom floor. What can be done to avoid these unaesthetic accidents? As with many of the challenges confronted by humanity over the millennia, scientific insight might save the day, but the solution will demand a paradigm shift in our excretory habits, as John Gamel explains...
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- Helen Pickersgill
Genes make you what you are. All living things have them (humans have about 25,000) and they're like blueprints. Dr Helen Pickersgill looks at the science, use and abuse of Genetically modified (GM) foods.
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