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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 ...

A "lucky" four-leaf clover

Good Luck

Can positive thinking create its own momentum, or to put it another way, does negativity reap its own bad harvest? Esther-Miriam Wagner and Robert Tombs read ...

The Milky Way

Fact Impact - The Milky Way

... around 400 billion stars Many of them suns like our own, surrounded by their own planetary systems. The Milky Way is shaped like two fried ...

Cytological specimen (ThinPrep) from a patient who was later diagnosed with cervical adenocarcinoma in situ. There is at least one mitosis.

HPV and Cervical Cancer

... that happen and the virus actually uses the cell's own ability to divide to help it make its own virus particles.  But if it's turned on, if certain ...

GUT MICROBES

Appetite and the gut microbiome

... control and hunger, through interacting with our body's own hormones and also nervous system, especially the vagus ... our eating behaviour, you know, perhaps for their own means to make us eat certain foods. But if we consider ... in the same molecular pathways that are used by our own body to signal when we're full up. Katerina Johnson, ...

Long exposure image of a question mark in neon lights

What's the diameter of a neutron star?

... test the metal of our panelists with some questions of our own! Chris Smith puts them to University of York animal ... bed is the ‘tech no’. The frying pan comes with its own app and a built-in scale so it can weigh and then ... full of one would weigh about 10 million tons. Our own sun in comparison: 1.4 million kilometres in diameter. So ...

Do we live in a multiverse?

... as there could be many parallel worlds, similar to our own where replicas of us lead different lives. There could be ... universes existing in higher dimensional space than our own, and where a gravitational pull is the only thing shared ... which universe we live in? What is the significance of our own existence if there are other universes? Various fields of ...

The planetary system harboring Kepler-138 b, the first exoplanet smaller than Earth with both its mass and size measured.

Smallest exoplanet mass measured

... The findings will help us to understand more about how our own Solar system was formed. Writing in Nature this week, ... distant or about 10 million times farther away than our own Sun, orbits the red dwarf star Kepler-138. It was ...

Computer generated image of Red blood cells travelling in a blood vessel

Sticky cells to heal wounds

... together. The ultimate goal is to take a patient’s own stem cells, culture them in a dish and then endow them ... so these are therapies where we use for example patients own cells to treat, is that the environments that the cells ...

The science of suspense

... Dr Keith Bound, at Receptive Cinema, has been using his own technique to do something very similar... Keith - ... which is where you're worried about something on your own, and not any character's, behalf. For example, the camera ... can tell us things that we might not pick up on our own... Keith - Consciously, we would not know which part of a ...

Oil spill

Nanosheets Soak Up Spills

A material capable of absorbing up to 33 times its own weight in oils and organic solvents has been developed by ... capable of rapidly soaking up over 30 times its own weight in oils, organic solvents and dyes. To work like ...

Water vole

Water vole reintroduction in the Lake District

... ago. And they were a really important species in their own right, of course, but they're also a really vital part of ... So it is really important to bring them back for their own sake, but also for the health of the whole ecosystem. ...

Heart Box

Science of Love - Cupid's Chemistry

... in fact, three distinct stages of love; each with their own characteristic emotional profile and scientific ... seek out somebody with an immune system different to our own. Additionally, it is important to find a mate with whose genes are also similar enough to our own to confer a tried and tested immune system. Is this the ...

Atmosphere of Mars taken from low orbit

The hunt for microbial Martians

... about life on another planet, you think about life on our own planet, it's all based on DNA and this kind of thing, and ... to tell if you'd find Martian life. Something that had its own independent genesis on Mars, or maybe found terrestrial ... or perhaps more recently with one of, you know, our own dirty probes, perhaps we're going to find your own dirty ...

photo of a man looking bored

Life on pause - lockdown boredom experiences

... me, this is why I ended up deciding to kind of give it its own little term Covid boredom because of this very unique and ... used a number of times in the media. It was used by my own institution. We were put on pause. The national hockey ... but at the same time, making that reality part of our own lives is not easy. And I think until we're forced to do ...

A greyscale computer image of a HIV virus particle

Umbilical cord blood stem cells cure HIV case

... the cells from another person are used to replace Adam's own blood cells. But to do that, you've got to remove Adam's own immune system and blood cells using chemotherapy, which ... next step would be to get stem cells from a person, their own stem cells, that we can prove they haven't got HIV in ...

A bird perched on a roof

Why do birds fly into windows?

... The other thing is that the birds may be seeing their own reflection and, as it is the time of year when birds ... it and not realising that it's not another bird, it's its own reflection. Especially with houses normally if the room ...

Campylobacter bacteria are the number-one cause of food-related gastrointestinal illness in the UK. This scanning electron microscope image shows the characteristic spiral, or corkscrew, shape and related structures.

Gut bacteria affect response to cancer therapy

... we have trillions of bacteria; they actually outnumber our own normal cells by up to ten to one. And it’s becoming ... a digestion standpoint but they can actually influence our own immune system. So we studied a large group of patients ...

orangutan ape

Ape origins of human language

... 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> ...

Salmon Sushi

Does the DNA of food survive digestion?

... had leached out into their intestines and those people's own intestinal bacteria had picked up the DNA and incorporated the genes into their own genomes. This is as one person put it, rather like you ...

Smoking

What are the effects of medicinal cannabis?

... has been on CBD and THC. Interestly, the body has its own cannabinoid system. And actually, one of the first endogenous cannabinoids, the body’s own cannabinoids was a drug called anandamide, which is ...

Ampoules and vials of vaccine

How would a COVID-19 vaccine work?

... to be very careful, in the sense that you have to use your own sense and scientific knowledge to create a vaccine which ... in that you inject the DNA or RNA and you allow your own body to make parts of the virus that can protect you and ... and you put that genetic message into the body, and our own cells pick that up and decode it, and then show that to ...

High grade dysplasia (carcinoma in situ) in the uterine cervix. The abnormal epithelium is extending into a mucus gland to the left of centre. This disease can progress to invasive cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) of the cervix.

The Hallmarks of Cancer

... cells? Robert -   That cancer cells stimulate their own growth; that they're resistant to inhibitory signals that ... to the tumours; that they can become resistant to their own programmed cell death - sometimes called apoptosis; and ... of drugs that are created which can act either on their own or more often, in concert with other drugs, to really ...

UFO sighting

The Search for Life in Outer Space

... about 2 thousand are sun-like stars. Chris - So like our own star? Maggie - Not exactly like our own, but similar enough to our star that they could live long ... could have life on them that are somewhat similar to our own. Chris - That's quite a lot, isn't it? Maggie - Yes, its ...

Rats leaning over the edge of their container.

Key brain areas light up when rats help other rats they know

... and they care a lot if they see a member of their own social group in distress. And what we find is that rats ... trap, and release a cage mate or another rat from their own social group that is trapped inside. So we use this ...