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Microbes and Muck - Making cattle eco-friendly
In western countries, the average person eats their own weight in meat every year, which means that livestock ... Jamie - Or we can tweak the forage. So what our own researchers do is try to understand how the microbes ...
Conservation of Microbes
... just the case that we need to conserve them for their own sake, but in fact, there are various knock-on effects ... animals and plants can't conduct. Therefore, for our own sake, just for biotechnological reasons, we have an ...
What were the repercussions of Chernobyl?
... By the yeast making itself very, very dark, it has its own in-built body armour against radiation and in this way, ...
Altruism: would you risk your life for a stranger?
... examples of instances when an individual has risked their own life to save someone else. And although this may seem ...
What's the best way to clean up a beach?
... a big quantity, so I’m not sure that one person on their own could do this. This is something that you need a whole ...
Cooperate or die?
... that be stone, wood, bone, material to engineer their own living spaces. Connie - And in terms of us going forward, ... great religious texts - that's our thing. We recognise our own mortality and no other animal does. Dr Matthew Pope, ...
Is there space dust in rain?
... how we detect what's in the atmosphere, not of our own planet, but other planets around other stars. So, if we ...
Getting to the Root of Rhizobia to Improve Agricultural Yields
... - They do. They can survive in the soil on their own, but sometimes food can be a bit hard to come by and ...
Crowd Psychology in an Emergency
... of individuals behaving individually in terms of their own individuality in the same place at the same time, but ...
Contagious earworms!
... are quite idiosyncratic. Hannah - Everyone has their own individual earworm going on, yeah. At the moment, I've ...
Power to the Pollinators - Planet Earth Online
... best. Simon - Yeah, so, the first question is on their own how well do they do? And the second question is; if we ...
A green recovery for the UK?
... have about how lifestyles will change alongside this. My own view is that we don't need to be scared of any of that, ...
Exploring the Exciting field of Epigenetics
... inside her, then that daughter is going to have her own eggs being incorporated into her ovary. So, at one ...
Digging for Antibiotics
... these compounds, they have to also be resistant to their own compounds. So many of antibiotic resistance genes that we ...
What is the microbiome and where does it come from?
... the factors we're exposed to, we're not just impacting our own health, but we're potentially affecting the future health ...
Gleaning the mood of the nation
... a Smartphone and there are many people - actually, I don't own one (there's a confession) so there are many people who ...