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 Moving Important Bird Areas into the seaWe hear about a new global network of protected areas for seabirds.Ben Lascelles, Birdlife InternationalJanuary 2012 |
 Parkour and Primate Movement - Planet Earth OnlineFree-runing, or parkour, is helping scientists understand how orang-utans move across a forest canopy...Suzanna Thorpe, University of BirminghamJanuary 2012 |
 Chimp Viruses Vaccinate Against Hepatitis COver 170 million people are infected with Hepatitis C worldwide and at the moment there is no effective vaccine. But now scientists may have found a way to protect people – by adding parts of the hepatitis C virus to a harmless virus that normally infects chimpanzees...Professor Paul Klenerman, University of OxfordJanuary 2012 |
 Spiderworms, Exploring Vents, Clues to deafness and Bulking up!Silkworms producing spider silk, new species discovered at hydrothermal vents in Antarctica, a gene providing new insight to deafness and the science behind bulking up this new year...Randy Lewis, Utah State University; Alex Rogers, University of Oxford; David Ornitz, University of Washington; Athanassia Soritopoulos, INSERMJanuary 2012 |
 A Festive Treat from Professor Karmadillo!We were joined by Professor Karmadillo, with a festive musical take on the recent news from CERN that they have seen tantalising hints of the existence of the Higg's Boson...Professor KarmadilloDecember 2011 |
 Fossil Feathers in Colour - Planet Earth OnlineAn international team led by Roy Wogelius from the University of Manchester has developed a new technique that reveals the colour, and even chemistry, of fossil birds – birds that are more than 100 million years old...Roy Wogelius, University of ManchesterDecember 2011 |
 Walking on the Seabed, Miniature Steam engines and Cool MosquitoesWe explore how African lungfish are providing insight into the evolution of walking, the design of the world's smallest steam engine, how birds tweet at a higher pitch to be heard in the city and reveal just how mosquitoes keep their cool...Heather King, University of Chicago; Clemens Bechinger, University of Stuttgart; Emily Mockford, University of Aberystwyth; Claudio Lazzari, University of ToursDecember 2011 |
 Why do Brussels Sprouts make you fart?We explore just what goes on inside our bodies to cause the flatulence resulting from eating Brussels sprouts...Sarah Castor-PerryDecember 2011 |
 The Death of Biostatistics?Given that people are increasingly using crowd source data in their research, are old style stats still up to the job? Arnoldo Frigessi explores...Arnoldo Frigessi, University of Oslo in NorwayDecember 2011 |
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 Ozone Depletion and Behavioural Change - Planet Earth OnlineRichard Hollingham investigates why ozone depletion sparked unanimous change around the World in 1987 and whether a similar feat could be achieved to fight Climate Change...Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic SurveyDecember 2011 |
 Finding the Hidden Rules of SocietyIf we collect enough data about our behaviour, can we start to make models that can begin to reveal the hidden rules of how we behave?Professor Steven Bishop, UCLDecember 2011 |
 Gleaning the mood of the nationSocial scientists have been taking advantage of mobile phones and social networking sites to unobtrusively capture vast amounts of information in order to analyse our behaviour. We discuss how such tactics are deployed...Dr Jason Rentfrow, Cambridge UniversityDecember 2011 |
 Navigating a Taxi Driver's BrainQualified London taxi drivers know their way around over 25,000 streets in the capital. And, if you scan their brains, you find that the structure called the hippocampus is much bigger than it is in the average non-taxi driver. But was it bigger to begin with, or did learning London like the backs of their hands trigger the cabbies brains to change? Professor Eleanor Maguire, University College LondonDecember 2011 |
 Bed Bugs, Night Shifts and Deterring the Affections of Fish...Bed Bugs travelling from abroad, why night shifts increase a female's chance of diabetes and how to deter the unwanted affection of a fish...Coby Schal, North Carolina State Universitys; An Pan, Harvard University; Safi Darden, Exeter UniversityDecember 2011 |
 Critter of the Month - Cleaner wrasseWe're keeping things spick and span in Critter of the Month, with a little fish that likes to tidy up.Joshua Drew, Field Museum of Natural History, ChicagoDecember 2011 |
 Oysters in TroubleAnother popular piece of seasonal seafood is the oyster, but a new report suggests we should be careful, due to infection of oysters by norovirus...December 2011 |
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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 |
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