- 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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- Danielle Turner
Researchers have been investigating how the unexpected affects how well and what you remember. If you want to be remembered - surprise someone! Super learning occurs when we encounter something highly unexpected.
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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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- Barry Gibb
Scientists studying the Conus snail have found that it harbours a cocktail of over 50 nerve toxins in its venom, some of which have powerful painkilling (a
nalgesic) properties, and are now undergoing clinical trials.
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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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- Kat Arney
Dr. Kat Arney discusses the process of genetic imprinting whereby the expression of a gene, and therefore its effects, depend upon whether you inherit the gene from your mother, or your father.
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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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- Kat Arney
In some cases the link between genes and disease is obvious eg. mutations in the gene encoding a single protein lead to cystic fibrosis. Often the relationship is less clear? Now Icelandic researchers have discovered a crucial connection between heart disease and a gene known as FLAP.
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- Dave Reay
When more news comes in of rising greenhouse emissions in Europe or more political backsliding over the Kyoto Protocol, our building full of climate change scientists can be a bitter place to be.
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- Julia Santomauro
Sleep paralysis researcher Julia Santomauro explores the phenomenon of sleep paralysis including what is sleep paralysis, what causes sleep paralysis, how
common is it, and are there any treatments for sleep paralysis ?
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