- 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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- 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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- Bob Bury
Discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen almost by accident, X rays are part of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes visible light. Bob Bury desribes how they work and can be used.
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- Dalya Rosner
It's funny how the microscopic world of bacteria and viruses are so similar to the macroscopic world of human migrants... A look at life from a germ's point of view.
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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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- 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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- Karen Smith
The European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) is a large multi-centre study looking at the connection between diet and cancer. Karen has a look at what it involves and has found out.
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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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- Claire McLoughlin
Claire McLoughlin describes the chemistry of cooking including what chemical changes occur in food when we cook it, and how does taste and flavour work ?
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- Kat Arney
In this article Kat Arney describes the history of cloning and the techniques that were used to clone Dolly the Sheep, and how embryonic stem cells (ES cells) are made and used.
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