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6th Jun 2011

Homeless Fish and Warming up Sunspots


Chris Smith
(c) Dave Ansell
Dave Ansell

Dominic Ford
Orange clownfish, Amphiprion percula

This week, how increasing CO2 levels could stop fish from finding a home and new insight into how sunspots keep warm. We also discuss the recent E.Coli outbreak in Europe as well as discover the world's largest DNA computer!

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How Sunspots Keep Warm

A group of Scandinavian researchers led by Göran Scharmer of Stockholm University have uncovered some clues about how sunspots stay warm...

Largest ever DNA computer

The largest ever DNA computer has been built, which might help build diagnostic tests or even understand cells.

(c) Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH

A New and Fatal E.Coli Outbreak

Making very big headlines at the moment is an outbreak of a new strain of E. coli in northern Germany; it’s thought to have stemmed from contaminated salad vegetables, including cucumbers...


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Losing Nemo - How Acid Oceans Deafen Fish

It is a proven fact that if you elevate the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere this will have the effect of acidifying the sea, because carbon dioxide when it dissolves forms carbonic acid. This acidification can change the way that fish react to the world around them......

(c) ALT1040 from Blogosfera

How You Use Your Handset

Computer scientists at Cambridge University have come up with a way to make mobile phones work more intuitively in future...




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