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Crowd-funded wind turbines now powering homes
... home is his castle. But what about if you wanted to own a wind turbine and use that to power your metaphorical ... a first of a kind initiative was born that meant you could own part of a wind turbine and use the proportion of it that you do own to cut the cost of your electricity bill by consuming ...
Are snakes susceptible to their own venoms?
... to consider. That is, they aren't susceptible to their own venom in their own fangs, because they don't kill themselves every time they ... This is also why if a snake happens to swallow some of its own venom it will be okay, because the venom is made of ...
How many Africans have a mobile phone?
... in the 33 African countries we looked at have access / own mobile phones. About half of these people own smartphones, so they have access to the internet and the other half own basic phones. But there's a huge difference among the 33 ...
Why antibiotics for bacteria but not viruses?
... a problem, because bacteria look totally different to our own cells, so it's fairly easy to make drugs and chemicals ... roger a bacterial metabolism and which will not affect our own metabolism. Because viruses have to prey on our own metabolism, and they have to use our own cells to make ...
Dealing with parasites
... the afternoon. And they will add a single egg of their own to the clutch, having first removed one of the host's own eggs and they do all this in 10 seconds. They quickly ... eggs in the nest. So by taking one out and adding her own, she keeps the clutch size, the number of eggs in the ...
Orphan planet discovered
... discovered what looks like an enormous planet all on its own in deep space. Adam Murphy found out more from The Open ... David - How do you get a planet floating around on it’s own. Well, there are two ways: one way is you just form the ... and the interstellar medium starts to contract under its own gravity. And if it’s a big enough cloud you’ll get a ...
Why do the farts of others smell worse?
... boyfriend about this and he agreed. But he said that his own farts, he found curiously pleasant - was his expression. ... in the studio? Hannah - Not about my farts, about your own. Helen - I think it's particularly bad if it's someone ... thought really that it's not come out of yourself, your own body. And maybe, is it a similar thing to other sorts of ...
Out of control: the rubber hand illusion
... that the rubber hand in front of you is not your own real hand. And if someone hits it with a hammer you feel ... when patient lose the capacity to discriminate between the own and the other body parts or there's a body ownership can ... - Watching a rubber hand being touched while one's own hand hidden of the view if touched synchronously leads to ...
What happens if you're injected with your own stem cells?
... healthy blood cells. This may mean a transplant of one's own stem cells could be beneficial. Here to help me explain ... also carry out a stem cell transplant using the person's own stem cells. And that's normally given as a rescue after ... given a high dose of chemotherapy. So we use someone's own stem cells to rescue their bone marrow. And that ...
The violent histories of hot Jupiters
... way that these planets orbit their parent stars. In our own solar system, the planets orbit the Sun in very similar ... in the surface of the plate. In addition, the Sun's own rotation axis is closely aligned with the orbits of the ... discs -- clouds of gas and dust that collapse under their own gravity, flattening into a swirling disk. The central ...
Off-the-peg anti-cancer cell treatment
... called leukaemias, by reprogramming some of a patient's own white blood cells to target their own cancer. This is called CAR-T cell therapy. It's very ... attack healthy tissue, or get taken down by a person's own immune system, and instead they go after exclusively ...
Crafty cuckoos in coevolution arms race
... to then bring up an offspring chick, which is not their own. Rebecca - That's right. And that's hugely costly for the ... chick. They pay the price for doing that. They lose their own offspring. The cuckoo chick kills their own young soon after it hatches by balancing any unhatched ...
Dark matter detected in the Milky Way
... Ghag, who wasn't part of the study but pursues his own research detecting dark matter, here on Earth, explains ... Chamkaur - We can look at galaxies sort of outside of our own and measure, in particular, the velocity of stars on the ... the distribution or how much dark matter there is in our own galaxy. And that's really important if we're going to try ...
UK based satellite programme to launch
It's anticipated funding for the UK to set up its own satellite navigation system is going to be announced soon ... Peter Cowley, who explained whether we need our own GPS system in the first place, when the EU and America ... stuck there so that’s why the Russians set up their own system. That’s why the Chinese have set up their own ...
Seagrasses kill bad bacteria
... Now scientists have discovered that the sea may have its own solution in the shape of seagrasses, which come with their own inbuilt water cleansing system. Cornell University's Drew ... pathogens." Harvell also speculates that the plants' own microbes might be responsible. "The plants have their own ...
Future Power and Outer Space
Can we make our own fuel? Or provide our own power? Could there be smarter life than us in outer space? Could other planets have their own Northern Lights? We find out the answer to these ...
Dog tumours sheds fresh light on cancer evolution
... other cancer or even healthy cells, and augment their own genomes accordingly? For instance, to patch up a failing ... to new ways of thinking about how cancers evolve in our own bodies, and how we might be able to treat them. We met up ... at the moment, but if a person has cancer it's their own cells with their own DNA. So how could you tell that that ...
Using heartbeats to read minds
... that it may be linked to how well you can monitor your own heartbeat. Punit Shah, lecturer and researcher at Anglia ... and King’s College London, got people to estimate their own heart rate - a measure of something called intraception, ... lines and you go ‘owh.’ Would this be a case of your own heartbeat increasing as a result of their sort of ...
How metres, kilos, and seconds came to be
... which is that everybody would measure things in their own ways, they'd use their own measurement systems. And strangely, even use parts of ... term hands for measuring horses. But everybody used their own system or their own way of doing that. And it wasn't ...
How do antibiotics kill bacteria, but not us?
... drugs for viruses? Because bacteria, being cells in their own right, are really different from our own tissue and cells; they're quite easy, relatively ... parcel of us, when they infect us they're growing in our own cells, using all our own equipment; it's like they come ...
The Microchimera Mixture
... which the immune system appears to turn upon the bodies' own tissues. Usually one particular organ or tissue is ... is programmed to live peacefully with cells from its own body and to destroy only foreign invaders such as germs ... understand, occasionally the immune system mistakes our own healthy tissue for that of an invader and unleashes the ...
Teens respond less to Mum's voice
... We think that kids, at some point, need to build their own life, build their own social network, and make their own social world. And we think that the biological process ...
Cloned tissue cure Parkinson's Mice
... mice with the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease, using their own cells. Writing in Nature Medicine, Sloan-Kettering ... into mouse eggs that had previously been emptied of their own DNA. When the mouse embryonic clones began to develop the ... of the affected mice. One group of animals got their own genetically compatible cells, whilst a second group of ...
The world's first consumer-owned wind farm
... - What Ripple does is we enable individual households to own a bit of a wind farm, and have the low-cost, clean ... so you simply decide how much of the wind farm you want to own depending on how much electricity you use, then you can ... our website, and you become a member of the co-op and you own your bit of the wind farm. And then we go away and build ...
Is everything in space spinning in the same direction?
... come to the party to make the star, they add all of their own bit of spin and the average, when you sum it all up, some ... the planets be spinning the same way? And what about our own solar system - is everything spinning the same way in our own solar system? Matt - So many questions. Okay. So, this ...