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Oxygen to help treat cancer
Oxygen can help strengthen our own immune cells and awaken their abilities to fight off ... abilities, of immune cells. Cancerous tumours have their own strategies, however, to combat the natural defences of ...
In computing, how does "the cloud" work?
... can I not tickle myself - is that similar to why I mind my own farts less than someone else's? Does breath-holding block ... Why would a telegraph pole by the road vibrate of its own accord? Dr Chris and Lester have the solutions! Modern ...
Altruism in humans - what makes us special?
... the fitness of an organism at the expense of your own fitness, so your own potential to reproduce genetically. With humans it’s ...
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 ...
The Poincare problem solved!
... and to find out why the Millennium Bridge was in fact its own millennium maths problem... Katie - Turns out when this ... resonance, resonant frequencies, and each object has its own resonant frequency and it just happened that the ...
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 ...
Earth's journey through space
... it doesn't stop there does it because the sun is on its own orbital journey around our galaxy. And our galaxy is on its own orbital journey around its cluster of galaxies. Matt - ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hydrogen-powered Party Poppers
... programme recorded live in the kitchen, we produce our own home-made ice cream, hear about the brain-basis of the ... probe the origins of the Star of Bethlehem, and make our own hydrogen-powered party popper. Merry Christmas! Home-made ...
Bee microbiome fights parasites with cyanide
... microbes; in fact some say that we’re passengers in our own bodies, outnumbered in cellular terms by our own microbiomes. We know that these microorganisms are ...
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 ...
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 ...
Machinima
... is where people use computer games to make movies of their own. They use design features built into the game to edit ... the scenery and use characters to tell a story of their own. They record this and distribute it over the internet. ...
Coronavirus globally: WHO plans for next wave
A pandemic isn’t a problem any country can solve on its own - after all, eliminating the coronavirus in your own home doesn’t do much good if it can easily return from ...
What kind of damage can a mascara brush do?
... to your lashes, you are reinfecting yourself with your own bacteria. Chris - But if they're your own bacteria already, is that bad? Roger - Yes, but they have ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...