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What diet & nutritional factors are important for bone strength?
... Frax tool which is a thing that predicts what your own fracture risk is. You can run this on an Apple, on an ... web from the Frax website and that will tell you what your own risk is over the next 10 years. So yeah, nutrients and ...
Seagrasses clean up polluted waters
... Now scientists have discovered that the sea may have its own solution in the shape of seagrasses, which come with their own inbuilt water cleansing system. Drew Harvell, from ...
Chronotherapeutics
... of a planet - it is part our cells, encoded in our own DNA... It turns out that almost every cell, be it bacterial, human, in the skin, liver or brain has its own 24 hour "circadian" rhythm. That is, a proportion of the ...
What determines the chromosome count of orga?
... apart into two. This is something that's happened in our own lineage for example, our own chromosome Two seems to be the result of the fusion ...
Why is a chilli called a chilli when it's hot?
... name comes from the Spanish word 'chile', which has its own roots respectively in the Nahuatl language (the Aztecs ... chile in Nahuatl. The Spanish then took this into their own language and the English language borrowed it from them. ...
What causes heart palpitations?
... the right. A palpitation is when someone is aware of their own heart beating. That's quite common and I'm often aware of my own heart beating specially when I'm in bed going to sleep, ...
What is SciHub?
... a particular paper; in fact, you want to read one of your own papers that you published a few years ago. So you go to ... are presented with a bill to read what’s ostensibly your own work. Sound familiar? Unless all your papers are with ...
Are far-away galaxies light years distant still there?
... that a star on the opposite side of the Milky Way from our own solar system has been travelling for 150 000 years before ... it arrives at the Earth. The next nearest galaxy to our own is the Andromeda galaxy and that's about 3 million light ...
Perfecting the Tastiest Tomato
... of Florida, explained to Chris Smith that it was his own displeasure at the inferiority of shop-bought tomatoes ... - If you're of a certain generation and you've grown your own tomatoes, or had access to them, you realise that some of ...
eLife Episode 50: Inside Your Microbiome
... that live on us and in us and outnumber our own human cells by maybe 50 fold: we’re literally passengers in our own bodies, and over the next 30 minutes we’ll hear how ...
How long do fundamental particles last?
... last for just under 15 minutes if they're on their own. To do an experiment - actually the experiments we do ... a nucleus, then it effectively lasts forever. But, on its own, just under 15 minutes. Dave - So being inside that ...
Why is a duck tapping on my window?
... of a duck on the other side. Ducks can't recognise their own reflection. The only bird known to recognise their own reflection is, actually, magpies, so it could be thinking ...
The Cosmic Positioning System - GPS for Satellites
... we are, but how do the satellites themselves know their own location? Well, all satellites use a kind of cosmic ... Chopo - Well, the satellites can define their own reference frame if you have accurate tracking. But the ...
What's the attraction of gaming bars?
... games there. Toby - My name is Toby. I'm from Lincoln. I own the gaming bar Aikido. Chris - So just tell us a bit ... video games and then sort of thought that maybe... do my own twist on it and make it with the craft beers and the ...
The World Community Grid
... so, what the grid is, anybody can join. It's using your own PC or computers that you own to join a network of computers and those computers are ...
Synthetic enzyme organelles
... A number of different inhibitors - each specific to its own enzyme - are then linked by a string of DNA. In the ... of the different enzymes, each inhibitor hooks its own enzyme, trapping them around the DNA scaffold and ...
How Massive can a Star be?
... stars, which have less than a tenth as much gas as our own Sun, to giant stars like Betelgeuse, with masses of ... planet like Jupiter, rather than a star that produces its own light. At the opposite end of the mass spectrum, if a gas ...
Does soy contain oestrogen?
... But soy contains some chemicals that mimic the body's own oestrogens called phytoestrogens. And the history of ... phytoestrogens, but it may not be as strong as our body's own. And so this means they can act to both promote oestrogen ...
What is a weed?
... out an answer as well as take on panellist Bill Colledge's own question. Howard - Well, I think you've really answered your own question. But just to explain: beauty really is in the ...
The history of eSports
... League of Legends, Counterstrike. They all have their own competitive matches their competitive scenes hundreds of ... of viewers watch matches from the comfort of their own homes as well. So Georgia Mills has been looking at the ...
Do you know your alcohol consumption limits?
... it's up to us to judge whether we’re over that - and our own - limit. According to research published this week ... and, without too much persuasion, volunteered to do her own self-assessment... Kai - We had 90 participants that ...
Do any animals have chloroplasts and can photosynthesise?
Not that I know of as their own chloroplasts, but there are more complex multicellular ... chloroplasts out of green algae and keeps them in its own gut. It lets them photosynthesise and nicks the sugars ...
What controls the heart rate?
... has a very well designed electrical system, which has it's own internal pacemaker that beats very regularly, a bit like ... and feeds wires inside the heart; taking over the heart's own pacemaker at times when it becomes impaired. What ...
New Ways to Monitor Diabetes
... diabetes. This leaves patients unable to control their own blood glucose level and causes serious complications ... Ben - At the moment, diabetics tend to monitor their own blood glucose level by a very old method of pricking ...
Q&A: Atoms, Avalanches & Armpits
This week, could we colonise a planet beyond our own galaxy? What’s the greenest way to heat my home? And ... and technology journalist Tim Revell and our very own physics boffin Adam Murphy. Why do I get cold feet but ...