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... - eLife digests are plain language summaries of research articles. We’ve been including them in research articles ... accessible to a broader range of people. That includes other scientists from other fields of research. I'm a plant ... asking the authors of research papers to answer some questions for us in more plain language and that’s really ...

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Bee-keeping scientists!

Chris Smith introduces the team answering your science questions this month. University of York animal behaviour ... very rookie mistake of not zipping up my own bee suit the other day, and I can tell you that that was bitterly ... to be getting on with. Chris - Eleanor, thank you. So any questions you have about insects perhaps even bees, bee ...

The wild frontier: animal models

... that they use in their research? eLife are exploring these questions with a new series of articles called, The Natural History of Model Organisms. Ian ... the nearest relatives of Claudia Schiffer actually have other much more interesting traits. I think that we are at a ...

Ebola viruses

What can we do to stop the Ebola spread?

... is ebola, and what can we do to stop it. We asked your questions to Chris, who is a consultant virologist... Kat - ... previous outbreaks of Ebola in the last 40 years.  So in other words, it's a massive departure and it's very unusual. ... on our website that's https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles . Dr Chris Smith, Cambridge University How much of a ...

Marika Ottman, Kings Cambridge

My Naked Scientist Summer

... What fun! In addition, I started to write Science News articles . After years of writing super boring technical lab ... but I still had room for improvement in forming my questions. Just as I started to feel comfortable at work, ... the answer, Chris and I would bounce ideas off of each other and have more of a discussion. And when in doubt, I ...

only yes is yes

Positive Outcomes of Sexual Harassment?

... with so much research, they open up a whole new range of questions to look into. Firstly, let me sum up what this is ... sexual way towards someone else unless you’re sure the other person doesn’t mind. Tricky though... how do you know ... vignettes to generate more concrete answers to our first questions; does a pro-harassment attitude indicate an ...

Is there gender bias in peer review?

... 2007 and over the years, they have published around 40,000 articles. These 40,000 articles, they were handled by 9,000 ... bias. Chris - How did you interrogate that dataset? What questions did you ask of it? Markus - We were interested in, ... number was within the expectation. Chris - What was the other question you asked? Markus - The other questions we ...

A wicker basket filled with an assortment of different vegetables

Vegetarianism could be in your genes

... as huge as a vulnerability to a disease. So what are the questions that actual geneticists ask when they see the ... someone to understand how things work today in animals and other organisms and other people want to understand how it ... a very fair question and before I read these sort of articles it's something that I asked too. So speaking ...

Figure 2 - Hypothesized reconstruction of the Trichomonas-like infection of a Tyrannosaurus rex. Parasites have plagued vertebrates for a very, very long time. They have co-evolved with us and our evolutionary ancestors over many millions of years.

The Hygiene Hypothesis, Part 3. Are Parasitic Worms Friend or Foe?

... . The question we're now looking at is: why? 'Why' questions in biology require evolutionary explanations; it is ... as many offspring. Thus, the two species propel each-other to ever greater sprinting speeds ( Figure 3 ). ... and a special band of cells that suppress the activity of other immunological cells, called regulatory T cells , or T ...

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Newsworthy: Science quiz

... O'Connor and Kit Chapman are team 2. They'll have 3 quick questions to answer on a category based on a recent science ... a lot. News story - [ https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/can-social-media-... Julia - In a recent ... of the corals and maybe they're trying to move it into other areas. That's something that I could see people doing. ...

Science-communication-master-class-croatia-with-Dr-Chris-Smith

Croatian Science Communication Master Class

... for scientists to be able to share their work with other non-expert audiences such as the broader scientific ... that would be clear, engaging and easily understood by the other students in the audience who were not necessarily ... strategically so that the answers to the most important questions (how/what/where/why) are presented and repeated at ...

Charlotte Birkmanis working with The Naked Scientists

Naked from afar

... over the last month or so. I was just as nervous as the other contestants while waiting to take the stage in The ... UK and Australia, I had Monday to write and polish my news articles from the previous week and find interesting news ... during the call to understand the research and decide what questions to ask during the interview. Tuesday evenings we ...

A packet of butter

Chemical contaminants from recycled plastic

... it like this. So for example, if you look at repeat use articles as we call them, so the containers, the kitchen ... PT bottles should only be recycled into new PT bottles or other containers. However, there are cases where you find ... different labs all over the world, which addressed these questions. We looked at all the chemicals coming from all ...

Lie detector suit

The world's first lie detector suit

... the room and where every sensor is as opposed to all the other sensors. So, that's global and local position. And ... them when you're just talking to them and ask them random questions - how old they are, where they live and that kind ... some media attention is that I actually have newspaper articles about a research. So, one of the things I want to do ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and medicine

... The ability to recognise road signs and pedestrians and other vehicles needs to happen in a small machine that can ... clinic, being able to provide second opinions and surface questions which you might not have considered. AI IS SPECIFIC ... we can collect from patterns, from published scientific articles, we can take all that data, and we can build ...

The current base of operations - Madingley Hall

Eight weeks as a Naked Scientist

... edit the pieces then. This week I was writing some short articles for the website and helping this week's producer ... Sunday's show. I'm learning more every day here, and the other members of the team have been great at giving feedback ... with the answers our panel were giving to the varied questions sent in by our audience. Clearly I hadn't been too ...

Cover for Rule Makers Rule Breakers, by Michele Gelfand

The Key to Unlocking Cultural Divides

... when he was accused of theft and vandalism. Along with other foreign students, Fay pleaded guilty to participating ... full-force by a prison officer. Over in the United States, articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the ... country’s norms and punishments. Here are some of the questions we asked:    ▶  Are there many social norms ...

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Life on pause - lockdown boredom experiences

... of folding different experiences of boredom on top of each other. Katie - You are an academic and you teach students, ... has been a phenomenal issue in the way that it's asked questions of them that I don't know - I've never had to deal ... and some of them have spoken out and there are a lot of articles written on this, they really do feel like their ...

Whale Shark

How does shark repellent work?

... What is your question for Chris? Dave - Yes my wife the other day, was asking me and it really irritated me 'cause ... Brian - Hi, morning, I want to know there's been a lot of articles recently about near-Earth objects impacting Earth ... So is there anything that I can do. Eusebius - I love questions that will stump Chris but he will have a ...

Electron micrograph of an adult male Schistosoma parasite worm. The bar (bottom left) represents a magnification of 0.5mm.

The Hygiene Hypothesis Unraveled

... immune system , which evolved to fight off infections and other harmful agents, like bacteria and viruses, ... diseases. Anne Cooke has also shown that a range of other helminths, such as Heligmosomoides polygyrus and ... in the United States thinks that the answer to both those questions is a resounding yes, as we'll discuss in the next ...

Bombardier Beetle, Brachininae sp., Orange County, North Carolina, United States. Length 13 mm.

Creationism vs. Science

... committed themselves to dogged attempts at proving each other wrong. But does the Creation debate really come down to ... is that expecting a theological text to answer scientific questions is no smarter than expecting a scientist to offer ...