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A Message from our Cat Overlords
It's a well-known fact that humans don't own their cats - rather the cats own us. This is why I, Dr Kat, am a dog person. And now a ... the University of Sussex, who got her inspiration from her own cat, who wakes her up in the mornings with an insistent ...
Lack of play harms children's development
... was a space where children could build and destroy their own play spaces. They were the masters of their own play destiny. So it is quite a revolutionary concept. The ... It was a sense of freedom, a sense where we learn our own limits, our own potential, our own abilities and ...
5G internet
... who sell mobile subscriptions – all build their own antennas and base stations. While operators do share ... systems for municipalities and local governments to own and operate 5G infrastructure. ‘Network sharing among ... And 5G technology paves the way for new actors who simply own infrastructure and lease it to the operators.’ Two core ...
What is the gut microbiome?
... whilst also hoping to find out a little bit more about her own own inhabitants… Julia - So I've been sent a health kit box, to better understand my own body pretty much. And here, there is the blood test that ...
'Game changer' cancer therapy approved
... is a bespoke patient-tailored therapy that uses its own cells, its own immune system to seek and destroy cancer cells. Chris - So you’re saying you take the patient’s own white blood cells, their own t-cells out of them? Magada ...
A successor to Hubble
... dust better, so it will allow us to see further into our own galaxy. And also, we'll be able to see the red shifted ... And so this combination of being able to see far into our own galaxy and far out into other galaxies, and to be able to ... the universe in its evolution. Adam - And what about our own galaxy? What can be achieved when the telescope is ...
Parasites tricking the immune system
... Rick - Well, very much so. Every parasite has its own sort of strategy but the ones we've found repeatedly ... is to pretend that the parasite is a little bit like our own body. To do this, it recruits an interesting set of ... they exploit this by producing a molecule very like our own, which drives these regulatory T-cells and switches off ...
Tackling common vaccine questions
... need to have got rid of those antibodies in order for your own antibodies to be made in the body. But in order to make your own antibodies you also need to have your immune system to be ... rid of the antibodies from the mother and having your own immune system sufficiently active that you can generate ...
Making your own Aspirin
... that humans and possibly many other animals make their own anti-inflammatory chemicals. The person who's made that ... that you've discovered that humans make that are their own aspirin? Gwen - It's linked to the finding that salicylic ... you have a headache, don't take an aspirin - make your own! It seems that humans can manufacture their own Salicylic ...
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope: 30 years later
... Bon Jovi, and Star Trek: Next Generation set out on their own mission to boldly go where no-one has gone before… and ... more evolved stars and then, eventually, stars like our own Sun are called main sequence stars. These early ... necessary to really push the sensitivity limits beyond our own galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope had been launched and ...
Finding Your Own Path - The Seeker Project
... sights of interest and then have the rovers find their own way there and do their own science? The European Space Agency's StarTiger Seeker ...
Why don't poison dart frogs poison themselves?
... American poison dart frogs are powerfully immune to their own poison, and now scientists know why. For thousands of ... packing this kind of chemical firepower within their own bodies, are these frogs unaffected by their own poison? Writing in PNAS, State University of New York duo ...
Grow-your-own joint replacements
Rabbits can grow their own replacement joints using their stem cells, according to ... The rabbits had re-grown functioning joints, using their own stem cells. Though stem cells are increasingly being seen ... prior to patient applications." Rabbits can grow their own replacement joints using their own stem cells, according ...
Cone snails hunt with fast-acting insulin
... the insulin the cone snail makes is very different to its own insulin. So the snail makes its own insulin to regulate sugar levels in its own body but the insulin that it sprays into the water is ...
How to ventilate hospitals
... Moody was just saying, which is give people their own space and their own air and therefore their own opportunity to keep themselves away from the sources of ...
Listening to the heartbeat of the ocean
... we heard about earlier. All these animals make their own noise and then with the noise we create with ships passing by or with our own tools – for example, sonar where we sent pings in the ... or sonar is like sonar for bats or dolphins, we create our own source of sound like a loudspeaker; send the sound, get ...
Body concious? Life drawing could help
... somebody else naked, make you feel better about your own body? Viren - Well I think it's about embodiment. So a ... they might provide a safe space in which to explore your own feelings about your own body in relation to other people, or just in relation to ...
The origins of microscopy
We are going to be getting up close and personal with our own cells by exploring microscopy. And not only are we ... we looking down the microscope, we're getting inside our own specimens. Julia - You what?! Anoushka - I've spent the ... on him or around him because he also looks at his own hair. All tiny things that he can put on that microscope. ...
The Naked Scientists go ghost busting!
... eery turrets of Madingley Hall in Cambridge, on our very own ghost hunt. There are a few scary tales surrounding the ... measure, and whether they could find a ghost of our own… Georgia - We are on the approach to Madingley Hall ... room, where we’ve had a couple of thumps already, on my own and ask a couple of questions. Brad - There’s that ...
Ethereum: a computer in the sky
... Sansom - and which Eth2's Justin Drake explains... Eva - I own £10 worth of Ethereum. My friend bought some Bitcoin and ... to the blockchain called Ether. And this is what you own in your wallet. Eva - So I have Ether. I don't have Ethereum. Justin - That's exactly right. You own Ether. Eva - And how is it different from Bitcoin then? ...
What do tickles tell us about the brain?
... sensations you get are due to what you're doing with your own body. Some of it just comes about passively from things ... predictions of what you were going to feel based on your own actions and remove that off. Just in the way those ... in terms of their prediction. They're surprised by their own movements because they didn't predict the consequences ...
Advances in cancer genetics
... of the damage we pick up over a lifetime, as well as our own unique tapestry of genetic variation and - in some cases ... saying, "Well, wait. Let's look also at the person's own genes and get rid of the ones that were abnormal to begin ... it may be the way the person handles that drug in their own body. And of course, that can be affected by lifestyle ...
What makes underwater animals glow?
... creatures use a type of bacteria. Some creatures use their own chemicals which are then put together. It's essentially ... column. This creature called the loosejaw fish creates its own red light. Nothing else can see it because no fish really ... there isn't any red light down there. If you make your own red light and you can see it yourself then you've got ...
Prof Jim Lupski - Genome sequencing
... our thinking a little bit. Kat - And you've got your own personal experience of having your genome sequenced. Can ... enough, we did find that. But you know, sequencing your own genome and what are the potential ramifications, that's ... about moving forward, we know where to focus studies of my own disease. So, we made the mutations in animal models now ...
Can snakes die from their own venom?
... protecting cells that stop it going back in to the body's own tissues and doing any damage. The only place it can go is ... made in you. That's why the snake doesn't die from its own venom because it keeps it in a specially adapted part of ... he said you can also find antibodies in snakes to their own venom, to a certain extent. They kind of have their own ...