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 Eco-friendly fishy petsSustainably-caught fish are the perfect gift for aquarium keepersDecember 2011 |
 Rime of the Modern Mariner - retelling of classic poem for our plastic timesThe perfect Christmas gift for a book loving, ocean loving friend.December 2011 |
 Animating a new route to ocean conservationSupport ocean conservation by sending singing fishy Christmas cardsJoe Jones, Archipelago.co.ukDecember 2011 |
 Heading footballs and Gesturing RavensHow heading footballs could lead to brain injuries, a new target for drugs against Malaria and more evidence for the cleverness of corvids...Andrew Tobin, University of Leicester; Michael Lipton, Einstein school of Medicine; Thomas Bugnyar, Max Planck School of Ornithology.December 2011 |
 Lensless MicroscopesChanghuei Yang explains his design for a lensless microscope...Professor Changhuei Yang, University of California Institute of TechnologyNovember 2011 |
 The view through a confocal microscopeAbigail Woodfin discusses the uses of confocal microscopy in dynamic viewing of bodily functions...Dr. Abigail Woodfin, Queen Mary University of LondonNovember 2011 |
 Bionic Lenses, Night Vision and Stress on the Brain...Lenses displaying emails before your eyes, flowing materials, stress on the mind and a night flowering orchid...Babak Parviz, University of Washington; Erno Hermans, Donders Institute; Zhengwei Pan, University of Georgia; Andrew Shuiteman, Kew GardensNovember 2011 |
 How the Brain Detects DietDenis Burdakov explains what happens when you have food on the brain...Dr Denis Burdakov, Cambridge UniversityNovember 2011 |
 Synaesthesia, Antibiotic Resistance and Snake VenomDao Nguyen, McGill University; Devin Terhune, University of Oxford; David Julius, UCSFNovember 2011 |
 Deep sea angler fish - queens of the glowing depthsWith parasitic males and glowing lures to catch their dinner, female angler fish are the undisputed queens of the deep.November 2011 |
 How glowing jellyfish revolutionsied scienceThe jellyfish that made rabbits glow green and revolutionised science features in our list of the top 5 ocean light-makersNovember 2011 |
 How bobtail squid vanish before your eyesIn our rundown of top ocean light-makers, the cute bobtail makes an appearance before disappearing before your very eyes.November 2011 |
 Seashells that glow like lightbulbsAnother of our top ocean light-makers is the clusterwink snail that glows like a light bulb to scare off predators.November 2011 |
 Glowing seas spotted from spaceA surreal nighttime phenomenon that's puzzled mariners for centuries was recently spotted from space.November 2011 |
 Critter of the month - killer whaleUnderwater photographer Brian Skerry picks an intelligent ocean hunter for his critter of the month.Brian SkerryNovember 2011 |
 New Targets for Cancer DrugsMadhusudan Srinivasan discusses a new target for cancer drugs - blocking the repair of DNA...Madhusudan Srinivasan, University of NottinghamNovember 2011 |
 Ras, Raf, Mek, Erk: cell signalling and the future for cancer treatment?Professor Chris Marshall discusses research on the Ras pathway and his hopes for personalised medicine making it to the cancer clinic in the next decade.Professor Chris Marshall from the Institute for Cancer Research in LondonNovember 2011 |
 Drug Addiction, Polluted Cyclones and Roaring LionsThis week's NewsFlash explores how smoking could pave the way for cocaine use, how our skin sees sunlight in order to protect us and the secret of being a roaring success...Amir Levine, Columbia University; Amato Evans, Virginia University; Elena Oancea, Brown University; Sarah Klemuk, University of UtahNovember 2011 |
 Treating Respiratory Disorders with Gene TherapyMaria Limberis explores how respiratory disorders such as Cystic Fibrosis can be targeted by gene therapy...Maria Limberis, University of PennsylvaniaOctober 2011 |
 Fossil Proteins - Planet Earth OnlineYou’ll remember, in the film Jurassic Park scientists manage to reconstruct dinosaurs from DNA preserved for tens of millions of years. Sadly for killer dinosaur fans, DNA doesn’t appear to last that long…but it turns out that proteins do...Roy Wogelius, University of ManchesterOctober 2011 |
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