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20th Oct 2008

Aliens to Fight Aliens


Ben Valsler
Japanese Knot Weed

Pitting one alien against another may be the way to fight an invasion, especially if the alien is Japanese Knot Weed - we'll find out more in this week's Naked Scientists News Flash! Also, we find out how reading brain activity could mean a new lease of life for paralysed people, why the colour of your childhood TV set may affect your dreams and how a 50 year old experiment has been brought up to date to tell us about the origins of life on Earth.

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(c) MethoxyRoxy

I think therefore I move

Scientists have developed a system that offers patients paralysed by spinal injuries the prospect of regaining the ability to move. The breakthrough is the work of Chet Moritz and his colleagues at Washington University in Seattle.  Writing in this week's Nature the team describe how they hav...

(c) Oliver Kurmis

Colourful dreaming

Do you dream in black and white or in full glorious technicolour? Your answer could well depend on what sort of TV you watched as a child, because a new study has provided more support for the theory that people who only watched black and white TV and movies as children also dream in black and white...

(c) NASA

Recreating life on Earth

Scientists have brought a 1950s science experiment back to life, and with it discovered a lot more about how life on Earth got stated in the first place.  In the 1950s UCSD scientist Stanley Miller made history when he recreated the conditions of the early Earth by mixing some water, methane,...

(c) James Watt

Cleaner fish work better in pairs.

Coral reef fishes that spend their lives picking clean other, bigger fish provide a more honest valet service when they work in pairs, showing that it pays off to be cooperate and behave. That’s according to a study in the journal science this week from a team led by Redouan Bshary from the Univers...


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Japanese Knotweed - An alien to fight an alien?

John Bailey joins us to explain the problem with Japanese knotweed, and how this alien species could be kept under control by another alien species...




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