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2nd Nov 2009
Sprinters' Toes and Tutankhamun's Tomb
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In this NewsFlash, how researchers have found the genes to turn stem cells into sperm and eggs, the world's fastest camera, why sprinters have short heels but long toes and disapointing news for dinosaur fans. Plus, the most distant object yet discovered, a gamma ray burst from the young universe. Also, we look back to This Week in Science History, and the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun.
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There are many processes in physics chemistry and biology which are very interesting but happen very quickly so they are hard to study. There are many forms of high speed imaging but they work by making conventional cameras faster, which normally involves expensive mechanical systems and they often ...
When you think about building the perfect sprinter, you might think of long legs and powerful muscles. But new research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology suggests that it's the size of an athlete's heels that might also be important in giving them the edge.
This is research by Stephen...
If you have travelled by aeroplane recently you will probably have been annoyed by the rules limiting the liquids you can take onto the plane. The problem is that there are various liquids that can be used to make explosives or just a fire, which are hard to detect quickly and easily in the security...
A paper in this week's edition of PloS One is disappointing news for small boys and palaeontologists, or anyone who's a dinosaur fan. According to a study by Mark Goodwin and Jack Horner, it appears that we may have significantly over-inflated the number of different dinosaur species.
Goodwin and Ho...
Interviews
Chris Smith finds out about the most distant object ever discovered and how this has improved our understanding of our universe...
This Week in Science History saw on the 4th of November 1922 the first discovery of the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun...
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