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27th Apr 2009
Mosquito Inspired Inventions and Lead-Lined Clouds
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In this NewsFlash, we find out why dolphins spit for their dinner, how every cloud may have a lead lining and how the pesky mosquito's inspired a portable artificial pancreas. Plus, we get the low-down on the latest pandemic candidate - swine flu, and discover how Louis Pasteur first presented his evidence for 'Germ Theory' this week in 1878.
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A new high-tech gadget inspired by the humble mosquito could one day provide diabetic patients with a portable, artificial pancreas that will painlessly monitor and control their blood sugar levels.
The Electronic Mosquito, or e-mosquito, was invented and patented by Martin Mintchev and Karen Kaler...
We could have inadvertently stalled the greenhouse effect by historically including lead in petrol, a European and US team of scientists have concluded.
Writing in the current edition of Nature Geosciences, Ulrike Lohmann and her colleagues show that lead is one of the most potent water droplet-for...
Spitting at the dinner table may be the height of bad manners for us humans, but in the dolphin world it is quite acceptable.
Researchers from the World Wide Fund for Nature, (WWF) have recently discovered that rare snubfin dolphins from down under get together in groups and spit for their dinner.
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Interviews
A new strain of swine flu seems to be spreading across the world - originating in Mexico. Paul Digard explains how pig flu can infect people, and how pigs act as genetic melting pots...
This week in science history saw, in 1878, Louis Pasteur give his important lecture on his evidence in support of ‘germ theory’ to the French Academy of Sciences, describing how diseases were not spontaneously generated but caused by microscopic organisms. Sarah Castor-Perry explains more......
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