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Exoskeletons, and Metal Organic Frameworks
... we think that an ant can lift between 10 and 50 times its own body weight. For a human, that would be the equivalent of ... huge and they can weigh a hundred kilos on top of your own body weight. Chris - So it’s almost like an external ... do that, you need something that’s actually got it’s own power. There are a number of exoskeletons that are being ...
Seriously impressive snakes
... swallow things that are much bigger than the size of their own heads or even thicker than the width of their bodies. A ... can take in food that's much larger than the size of its own head when its mouth was closed. But then we still have ... slithering snakes swallow prey so much bigger than their own heads? Seriously impressive snakes ...
Knitting with human yarn
... now, we’ve not yet considered making things out of our own bodies. And Nicolas L’Heureux is a Bioengineer at ... really works best when you have a blocked artery is your own artery to replace it. That's what surgeons do today. They ... put in the same basic architecture that you find in your own vessels, and we expect the body not to see this as ...
What is the microbiome?
... of ourselves as individuals that we live under our own steam, we behave under our own wills, we grow up from a single egg into this complicated organism under instructions from our own genomes. All of those things are complicated by the ...
'Nostalgia ain't what it used to be,' with Charan Ranganath
... to write something that both tracked the development of my own ideas, but also my life in this field of science. Some ... for instance, they feel almost compelled to tell me their own memory stories. James - Yeah, you mention one of the ... well. Anything that you need to do that is based on your own goals, you lose that ability. So it's not about memory ...
Type 2 diabetes transmitted to others
... those pancreases would develop IAPP clumps of their own. They then genetically modified mice to possess human ... mice were given IAPP bundles, their pancreases made their own IAPP clusters. To their great surprise, however, healthy ... brain where they passed the damage on to the person’s own prion proteins. Furthermore, Alzheimer's disease, ...
The Hygiene Hypothesis, Part 3. Are Parasitic Worms Friend or Foe?
... aggressive or inappropriate responses and damages our own tissues in the process. We also learned how helminths ... getting out of hand and causing excessive damage to our own tissues. Mechanisms for this 'immune regulation' include ... that actively attempt to suppress it, purely to aid their own survival. Now, what happens when many of these infectious ...
Are Moral Values Contagious?
... type of altruistic behaviours because they are in our own interest in the long term. So, you have to have a long ... to reduce your pain, but they pay a lot to reduce their own pain. Well, that might bring up the picture of a ... to pain? Ray - They're very receptive to their own pain. Hannah - But not to other people's. Ray - So, ...
Is there enough food for everyone already?
... about reducing food waste at that consumption and in our own homes, but also at the level of supermarkets and ... most importantly, they make a difference in terms of our own cultural change, our own awareness and our own comradery, and the movement that ...
Are Covid-19 contact apps data safe?
... and work in a decentralised manner: you hold your own data at all times and it cannot be used for any data ... the other app users. All of the phones then search their own records to see if they have seen Bob’s anonymised ID before. Therefore, in this scheme, each person’s own records of which devices they have encountered before are ...
Cameron Voisey: Naked Internship
... I inevitably, as the true millennial that I am, start my own podcast. My first week Due to Covid-19 restrictions, ... (e.g. Question of the Week), or you may be producing your own show (more about this below). A typical part of every ... to the ease of producing something! Producing my own show One of the highlights of the internship was being ...
Artificial pancreases - lab grown and DIY
... of the diabetes community came together to build their own solution – in something called a ‘Do-it-Yourself ... community, have made the instructions for building your own DIYAPS open source so that anyone can make one. Dr ... systems are still experimental and those who build their own are doing so at their own risk. ‘There's no customer ...
Why can't we tickle ourselves?
... In 2003, a study showed that crickets perceive their own chirps as quieter than those of other crickets. Having ... ownership, so that we know whether a touch comes from our own moving fingers, say, or some foreign object. ... of tickling in the somatosensory cortex when it is our own fingers, not someone else’s, at work. Dr Kilteni’s ...
Be PrEP-ared: buying anti-HIV drugs online
... absence of a vaccine, men are taking matters into their own hands, as Graihagh Jackson found out... Will - I’m Will ... is the ticket out? Will - I don’t think PrEP on it’s own will be what leads to the eradication of HIV. I think ... services for many, some are taking matters into their own hands. Be PrEP-ared: buying anti-HIV drugs online ...
Gene therapy for HIV
... to give high doses of chemotherapy to clear the patient's own cells, to allow the incoming cells that are resistant to ... from a donor. You're saying “can I take a person's own cells or even get donor cells and change them in some way ... immune system can be rebuilt from those cells and their own virus can attack them.” Michael - The idea is to take ...
Einstein helps astronomers to weigh a star
... Stein 2051B weighs about two-thirds as much as our own Sun. This observation is enormously important, because ... These are stellar cinders that form when stars like our own Sun, which account for two thirds of the stars in the ... out the evolution and histories of galaxies like our own. Previous measurements of Stein 2051B had suggested that ...
Colonise Mars to save the human race?
... But I think... Chris - Planets that are outside our own Solar System. Ryan - Yes, exactly. Chris - Yeah, distant ... a little bit uncomfortable, the idea that this makes our own planet is disposable or that we're giving up on it. So, I ... to preserve ourselves because we've caused problems on our own planet, on planet Earth that we automatically have the ...
The Anthropocene
... refer back to the current geological epoch, but also for own understanding of our place in Earth's history. DIANA:So ... if geologists exist in the future, and look back at our own time period, they will say that the 'Anthropocene' ... refer back to the current geological epoch, but also for own understanding of our place in Earth’s history. The ...
Lost in music - how birds learn songs
... respond to complex auditory stimuli such as the bird's own song. But those same neurons are also active when the ... of other birds that have songs very, very similar to its own song. So, that's part of the answer. The other kind ... And other birds' songs that are very similar to the bird's own song will excite those nerve cells. Because the animal ...
Homing In With Heat - Vampire Bats find Blood
... feed? Well the answer is that they've evolved their own built-in infrared detectors to pinpoint where the best ... involved in temperature sensation in the bats and in our own nervous system is what allows us to appreciate sort of ... feed? Well the answer is that they've evolved their own built-in infrared detectors to pinpoint where the best ...
What has physics got to say about time?
... bounce back out again and that we would experience as our own big bang. So, this is a picture of a cyclic universe ... different parallel universes, if you like. So, our own universe will be one of the layers and then separated by ... good question. They could be very different from our own universe. They could have different laws of physics in ...
Bacteria seeking Asylum...
... And why do we fight back so violently to protect our own interests? Of course, being more scientific than ... army will not give us a chance and eagerly sacrifices its own cells to destroy us. The 'Acquired' branch of your Immune ... will wage a war that is as vicious and as ruthless as your own... It's funny how the microscopic world of bacteria and ...
Worst ever avian flu outbreak
... and they're bringing infection and that's getting into our own kept birds. Chris - And what sort of flu are we talking ... himself. He had very close living circumstances with his own birds. So, a very low risk to people, but it's very nasty ... change something in the environment, or it changes of its own accord, we're thinking what might be the impact for ...
The London Underground Mosquito
... nothing to do with trains: because the Underground has its own species of mosquito. Genetically distinct from its ... it's happening everywhere all the time including in your own street and in your own backyard. Francesca - Menno’s favorite example of urban ...
FameLab: Astrobiology
... you to that? is there nothing interesting enough in your own field? Patrick - Well, there's plenty interesting. The ... but much like us, they have trouble getting out of their own neighbourhood. We only got to the moon pretty recently, ... Maybe everybody else has trouble just getting off their own planet as well. But then again, our civilisation is ...