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 Earth's oldest rainforest discovered in coal mine and why the plucky T. rex is a bit “chicken”A 300 million year old fossilized forest has been discovered in a coal mine in Illinois, USA. Covering an area of 10 square kilometres, its the largest fossil rainforest ever discovered and contains a diverse selection of extinct flora. So how does a forest end up in a coal mine and what can the ex...
Protein for plant “petrol”As it looks like we’ll be running out of oil in the not-too-distant future, scientists have been hunting for an alternative to fossil fuels for use in cars and other vehicles. Some cars around the world are already running on ethanol, produced from crops such as corn. But it’s expensive ...
Fighting both dandruff and epilepsyIt may not seem like an obvious treatment for epilepsy, but results from a team at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute have found that a chemical in anti-dandruff shampoo might be useful for treating the illness. Epilepsy occurs when nerve pathways in the brain “short-circuit”, and nerves st...
New planet discoveredIn the constellation Libra, 20.5 light years away there is a star we call Gliese 581. This is a small rather dim star which astronomers have been studying for several years, and had found two large planets circling it. One at 15 times the mass of the earth orbiting every 5.4 days and another 8 times...
Furry DisplaysYou may remember at school someone being charged up by a Van de Graaf generator, and their hair standing on end because all the hairs now repel each other. Engineers at Phillips may have come up with a way of using this principle to make a display out of fabric. The idea is to make a hairy fabric w...
Racing Jam JarsRace Jam Jars down a slope and find out that all things don't allways fall at the same speed. |
The Evolution of the Peppered MothMike Majerus tells us about the peppered moth, cites as an example of evolution by natural selection in action.
The People of the British IslesBruce Winney talks about the genes which make up the British people
Surnames, Yorkshiremen and Y-ChromosomesTuri King talks about how she found African ancestry in Yorkshiremen, and about how your Y-chromosome type can predict your surname
Science Update: ConsumerismChelsea and Bob try to answer the age old question 'Why do we buy what we buy?' Does celebrity endorsement work? How much choice is too much?
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