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Geckos "mussel in" on underwater adhesive sceneResearchers have successfully combined two of natures most powerful adhesive strategies to produce the underwater equivalent of a post-it note! Writing in Nature, Phil Messersmith from Northwestern University in Illinois describes how he and his team have come up with "Gekel", which cons...Do you need two Ears?Do you find it hard to listen to two things at once? Maybe you’re watching the TV and someone is trying to talk to you? If so, then it seems you might be able to blame it on your genes. That’s according to new research that has just come out from a team of scientists from the National Institute o...Sweet taste of success as researchers uncover gene that causes diabetesResearchers have found a new gene that is strongly linked to the development of type 1 or "juvenile" diabetes. Hakon Hakonarson, from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, used the power of SNPs - single nucleotide polymorphisms to track down the gene in children with the disease. SNP...Bad News for British Seabirds.That’s according to the RSPB who have announced this week that colonies of seabirds, like puffins, kittiwakes and Manx shearwaters are not doing very well at all in their normal breeding grounds on the islands in northern Scotland. The last few years have seen really bad breeding seasons for m...Have a break. Have a kitkat...well maybe not, but you will lose more weightJapanese researchers have found that when it comes to exercise and weight loss, the perceived wisdom of quantity over quality might be wrong. Tokyo University's Kuzushige Goto recruited six healthy men and studied their metabolic response to exercise on a cycling machine. The volunteers performed ... |
Science Update - Extreme Family SurvivalThis week, Bob and Chelsea tell us about extreme familily survival.Diving DeepHow deep can you go? Professional free divers can descend hundreds of feet underwater with no scuba gear, but what does that do to your body?Surviving AntarcticaDavid Thomas is a marine biologist from the University of Wales, Bangor. His work takes him all over the world and he has recently released a book called Surviving Antarctica, we invited him in to the studio for a chat. He’s also got another book out called Frozen Oceans, described by Chr...Coping with G-ForcesFighter pilots need to undergo extreme conditions and still be able to make life or death decisions. How do they train to cope? We spoke to US Air Force Phsyiologist Major Todd Dart.
Xtreme EverestRichard Turner volunteered to have his body tested to extremes of endurance at Everest base camp, all in the name of medical science.
Floating a NeedleFloat steel on water with nothing more sophisticated than a piece of toilet paper.I can only take some of the credit. There's a fantastic team of people helping out with this project, and I always say so at the end of every show.
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- Chris - 24th Jul 07
Question, why is Chris showing as a guest? Extreme survival, i love the subject. More in the how to live off the land kind of way. I have s... - paul.fr - 25th Jul 07
I meant to cheekily imply/infer that Chris does all these extreme survival stunts himself !!... - neilep - 25th Jul 07
oops - and there was me thinking we had some adoring fans who recognised the huge sacrifice we all go to for this programme. Alas it was just a fli... - Chris - 27th Jul 07
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