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20 March 2011
James Kay explains the workings of the Diamond synchrotron and the factors that need to be considered when engineering...
18 March 2011
Should you keep your banana in the fridge? Why are ice-cubes easier to eject from top-shelf freezer trays? Why not site...
18 March 2011
Mosquitoes can transmit deadly diseases like malaria.But could they pass on HIV if they drank from an infected person?...
17 March 2011
This month: Aegean warriors in art; the most genetically diverse people in the world; prehistoric Californian seafarers...
16 March 2011
Polythene podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
15 March 2011
What causes the rainbow of colours around an aircraft's shadow, why are moths and mosquitoes attracted to lights,...
14 March 2011
Potato peelers are the staple of the kitchen drawer, but why don't they ever seem to need a good honing as...
14 March 2011
This week, how nano-diamonds can help fight cancers, co-operating elephants and tiny digital cameras. We bring you up...
13 March 2011
Can you electrocute weeds? Why do teeth go wobbly? And which cells last a lifetime? In this bumper edition of the Naked...
11 March 2011
From precious coral and slimey sea cucumbers to luxury fish lips and beautiful seahorses, this month Naked Oceans...
10 March 2011
Coral reefs are vibrant ecosystems packed with spectacular underwater life that protect coastlines and provide food and...
09 March 2011
Silicon dioxide podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
09 March 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how carbon capture and storage works and why it's here to stay, the effect...
07 March 2011
This week, how do painkillers locate the bits that hurt? Do they have an inflammatory sat-nav or do they just numb your...
07 March 2011
We visit the tablet manufactuing site of Glaxosmithkline to see how millions of tablets are made each year with...
07 March 2011
This week, a new discovery suggesting that the chemistry of life could have come to Earth in a meteorite, how foetal...
06 March 2011
From anti-ague to anti-Alzheimer's agent: over the 112 years since it was first trademarked, Aspirin has evolved...
04 March 2011
Copper compounds can be blue, green, yellow, brown and black - so how does it produce so many different colours? We...
02 March 2011
Silver fulminate and cyanate podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
01 March 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - how tracking insects can help scientists forecast summer storms and floods, and...
28 February 2011
This week, we discover the reasons for those aches and pains known as cramps. What causes them and how can they be...
28 February 2011
In this NewsFlash, we find out what a rare, self-healing skin tumour can tell us about more common cancers, explore the...
27 February 2011
Just the bare bones this week as we find out how exercise strengthens the skeleton and how new scanning techniques can...
27 February 2011
We explore how load cells can be used measure muscle force and develop treatments for physiotherapy...