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EVE Online: gamers analyse COVID data

... industry, where you look at the markets, or you mine your own materials, and then you build stuff for other players to ... if this dot is a part of that cluster, or is it in its own cluster, or maybe that one, you get the idea. And the ... deeper way than if scientists were doing it all on their own. Ryan - We have really, one-on-one collaborations with ...

Are Parallel Universes Just Science Fiction?

... with a life slightly but eerily dissimilar to your own? What if there is an Earth 2.0? While this topic is the ... then do we really have free will, or is our path in our own timeline just predetermined? While for now it is unlikely ... with a life slightly but eerily dissimilar to your own? What if there is an Earth 2.0? While this topic is the ...

KIDNEY MODEL

Making mini kidneys

... doing that, presumably Jamie, if you do it with a person's own stem cells, is that they end up with tissue which is ... can take these cells out into culture dishes and use their own ability to organize themselves to make very small ... the small anatomical structures of the kidney on their own. And we just have to sit back and watch, which is ...

Human eye

The BRAIN Initiative

... and to understand, and manipulate our behaviour. Who will own that data and how should we use the information? In ... where for about a thousand dollars, you can have your own genes analyzed and know what may be some of the ways to go about dealing with disease in your own body and it revolutionized medicine. One of the ...

Trappist-1

Is there life on TRAPPIST-1?

... amount of certainly, that they must be rocky. Izzie - Our own home, planet Earth, is also a rocky planet, so are ... and Mars. But how similar is this system compared to our own? Amaury - They're remarkably similar. When we had large ... Astronomers explore a planetary system very similar to our own. Is there life on TRAPPIST-1? ...

If you shine red light on cones it will be absorbed by the red ones using up most of their rhodopsin

Seeing the Light

... find these? Rob -   So, that was work not just from my own lab, but from various labs around the world.  My own contribution to it when I was working as a post doc in ... what time of day it is.  If we can do that by having its own light measurement system, why wouldn't it? Kat -   At ...

Hydra

Can cancers control their hosts?

... remote host tissues, like blood vessels, to enhance their own growth. Justine Boutry… Justine - We observed some ... be clear, the tentacles are growing from the recipient's own tissue. It's not that the cancer or tumour cells turn ... formation of new blood vessels. It's still the person’s own blood vessels growing, but the tumour cells are ...

eLife

Why does fog cloud driver judgement?

... then what happens to the driver is they perceive their own speed being lower and therefore, you accelerate to match ... that it's not only perception going on.  We have also our own motivations.  For example, if we are in a hurry, if we ... in the simulation, all the drivers over estimate their own speed.  With our findings, we could think of some ...

Artist's impression of the James Webb Telescope

Space in 2021: rovers & a new space telescope

... a plutonium thermoelectric generator, and it even has its own drone. This is like a super yacht with a helicopter on ... go on for a very long time. But what I try to do in my own research is have some studies that are relatively brief ... that may be more three to five year studies; for my own personality and motivation, that's very good to get some ...

The Milky Way galaxy.

Cosmic dawn: when the stars switched on

... physically little blobs. Just to put it in context, our own galaxy is the Milkyway, and these galaxies are about a ... calibrated and used very successfully for stars in our own Milkyway which looks at a feature of hydrogen in the ... the origin of everything we see around us, including our own bodies. God, when did all this happen? When did this ...

Learn to read

A new way to learn to read can help children struggling with the basics

... 'beach', some children may not hook that up with their own experiences at the beach and when they don't do that, all ... from physical manipulation, they're able to do it on their own. Chris -   And this is something that we do as adults ... So, when we read something, we're seeing pictures in our own mind to decode what's going on, and we don't even notice ...

Sea cucumber snuggle - Scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia

Artificial Enzymes, Sea Cucumber Skins and Safer Chips

... reactions for us but to do that you need to make your own enzymes. Now Ling Jiang and colleagues at the University ... Ohio, have used this as inspiration to make their own material which does exactly the same thing. They made ... using exactly the same mechanism. They're making their own nano-fibres of cellulose. It's basically the same ...

Why does my voice sound different in my head?

... they called the speech jammer which actually played your own voice back at you at just a few milliseconds delay, I believe, and it's so disrupting to hear your own voice back with that slight delay that it basically shuts ... they think "do I really sound like that?" Do we hear are own voices differently that how we sound to others? I hope ...

A potter working some clay on a wheel.

Handmade: materials and the art of crafting

... Anna - I learnt these materials have intersected with my own life - very much so as well. So when I started writing ... so the intersection of these different materials with my own life experiences is really the narrative driving the book ... start to see how materials have intersected with their own lives as well, and tell their own stories with them. Anna ...

Professor Sir John Gurdon, winner of Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2012, at the annual Scholar's Dinner of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 10 October 2012

John Gurdon, 2012 Nobel prize winner in Physiology and Medicine

... of an adult, is then put into an egg cell, which had its own genetic material removed, you can get a new frog which is ...

a laptop, smartphone and stethoscope

Future hospitals: IT

... empowerment through transparency and access to their own data. I think remote monitoring of patients, whether in ... more personalised care for patients, based on their own activity, their own physiological parameters, their own clinical baseline. ...

An ant

Fungus farming leaf-cutter ants

... ants; and they're very special: they farm their own food in underground gardens, and that is almost ... the ants do, they manure the fungus gardens with their own faeces - it is actually very clever if he can first ... inoculation, which will then basically mean she in her own body can manage that symbiont as far as is required to be ...

Adult orangutan

The layered language of great apes

... cognition, cultures as a time machine to go back to our own ancestors and try to understand what they were capable of ... is important because this is how we tend to organise our own stream of words and sentences. I can be saying a phrase ... And now we have smaller nodes, staccato notes with their own little tempo inside the main beat <sound imitation> ...

Bento Lab

Philipp Boeing - A lab for everyone

Kat - Imagine all the kit you need to start your very own molecular biology lab, packed down into the size of a ... And if you fancy getting your hands dirty with your very own laptop-sized lab, visit their website - ... Bento Labs Imagine all the kit you need to start your own molecular biology lab, packed down into the size of a ...

A vaccine being prepared by gloved hands

Nobel Prize for Medicine: mRNA Covid vaccines

... realised that it might be possible to deliver our own messages into cells in a genetic form; including the ... It sounded simple, but when scientists tried adding their own mRNA genetic codes to the body, the cells of the immune ... them. Developing this technology was a breakthrough in its own right; and although Karako and Weissman developed the ...

radiograph of the chest

Discovering X-rays

... discovery. People began to experiment and build their own kit. You can imagine the scary levels of radiation people ... of entertainment. It became very fashionable to get your own sort of x-ray image of your own hand or foot. But increasingly and gradually, we became ...

Peter Cowley and Liesbeth Blom

Public Success, Private Grief

... to understand what had happened and why, building up his own narrative, “so that I was comfortable and could settle ... and family and discussed at length the impact on his own mental health, as well as using formal counselling. But ... pain, he kept active. These life events helped him put his own prospects in perspective when he received a diagnosis of ...

Air quality monitor

How we can monitor air pollution?

... is a problem, people are now taking matters into their own hands to monitor the air and take steps to protect ... an open source design. Chris - So effectively you're your own competitor. So how do you make any money? Achim - We make money by selling our own products and I think it makes us a lot stronger because ...

FRIDGE LARGE

Menu labels impact calorie content

... aren't even aware of the nutritional information of their own food and drink, that given that information they can know ... think how many restaurants don't even know what's in their own food and drink, let alone the consumers. Chris - How were ... those restaurants? Dolly - We didn't look at this in our own study, so the evidence is pretty weak on the impact on ...

On the Importance of Expeditions to Science

... becoming a skilled field biologist is dependent on your own initiative. If your dream is to do meaningful research in ... planet, then pack the toilet paper yourself, and plan your own expedition. Tucan in the Peruvian Amazon Cycling across ... unresearched wild population is not just a tragedy in its own right, but reduces our ability to learn more about the ...