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Rock-steady way to tackle rising Carbon DioxideBarrack Obama has famously pledged to put the US at the forefront of global warming (cynics would say it already is!), so it's fitting that a US scientist has this week developed a strategy that could lock away literally billions of tonnes of CO2 per year. Writing in this week's PNAS, Columbia Uni...
A fungal solution to climate change?The fight against future climate change may have an unexpected ally, in the form of mushrooms living on the soils of northern Spruce forests of Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia. Steven Allison and Kathleen Tresede from the University of California Irvine conducted experiments in Alaska and found that...
Booze-prone brain behaviourScientists have uncovered a genetic reason why some people are prone to alcoholism. University of Massachusetts Medical School researcher Gilles Martin and his colleagues, writing in this week's PNAS, have found that one of the components of a pore (called the BK channel) found on the surfaces of b...
The world’s smallest solar panelsThe world’s most minute solar panel cells have been built and tested and one day in the not too distant future they could be used to power even tinier microscopic machines. The solar panels were built by Xiaomei Jiang and her team of researchers from the University of South Florida in the States. ... |
Multiple Sclerosis SuccessA recent Pathology success story - the drug CamPath, also known as alemtuzumab, was developed at Cambridge University's Pathology department, and has now been shown to have positive effects in sufferers of multiple sclerosis...
The Royal College of PathologistsWe were joined by Professor Adrian Newland, president of the Royal College of Pathologists, who explained what the role of a pathologist is, told us all about National Pathology Week, and how pathologists on TV can give the wrong impression...
The Process of a Post MortemWe go through the process of a real post mortem - working with pathologist Alison Cluroe, we find out what has to be done to determine the cause of a death.
Kitchen Science - Plague Outbreak!In place of this week's Kitchen Science experiment, Ben attended a National Pathology Week event run by the Royal College of Pathologists and the Natural History Museum, simulating an outbreak of plague in Central London. Would you know how to contain an outbreak before it becomes an epidemic?...
How long would it take to wipe all trace of man from Earth?If the human race were to become extinct, how long before all traces of our existence were to disappear?Arun Pandyan asked the Naked Scientists:
Chris,
I listen to the podcast regularly. I live near Dallas Texas.
Love your program.
There was a ...
- Arun Pandyan - 20th Nov 08
Yep, that would be the Forensic Anthropology Facility at the Uni of Tennessee, set up by Dr Bill Bass in 1971. This body farm has provided pretty much... - steph - 20th Nov 08
So do they know how many bodies lie here?... - Chemistry4me - 26th Nov 08
The "Body Farm" is a human forensic anthropology research facility at the Uni. of Tennessee in Knoxville. They leave human corpses in ... - Evan - 13th Dec 08
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