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What is a tingle down the spine?
... they saw as the position of the thrower's hands onto their own motor areas of their brain in order to work out and ... doing, what we're seeing going on around us onto our own internal map of the world: these mirror neurone. These ...
SARS-CoV-2: natural or man-made?
... - that the spike binds to. Other animals have their own versions of ACE2 as well, but Nik’s work shows that the ... from somewhere; humans don't just invent viruses in their own bodies. So where did it come from then? Nik - One ...
Charles Darwin - In his own words...
... which Darwin describes as being so uncannily like his own theory. In some ways it was as if Wallace had actually ... 1st of July, 1858. 150 years on, we look through Darwin's own letters to find out more... Charles Darwin - In his own words... ...
Adults need learning, too
... the lifespan; you will have diminished confidence in your own ability to learn; and then you won't necessarily pass onto your own children a joy or confidence around the learning ...
Viral vector vaccines: what are they, and how do they work?
... of the infection into the body, and then to rely on our own cells decoding that message and making the pieces of the ... take a virus, and first disable it by removing its own genetic instructions that tell it how to grow. This means ...
The history of UFOs
... have been documented around the world. But how has our own culture shifted the discussion behind UFOs since then? ... say. Adam - It's quite possible aliens are updating their own fashion through the years. The 50's silvery disk, their own version of a Volkswagen Beetle perhaps, and the 90's ...
Voices in the Dark
... voices can have such vivid personalities of their own that although they are invisible, voice hearers often ... more ambiguous. Voices can guide the hearer towards their own destruction in seemingly subtle and deceptive ways. This ... yourself, telling yourself to do things, evaluating your own behaviour. Narrator - We can also perhaps begin to see ...
The Science of Parasites
... cuckoo for example, which, seemingly too lazy to rear its own young, lays its egg in another bird's nest. When you look ... ploys, they evolve to develop strategies of their own to avoid being made a fool of in future. From generation ... adept at spotting intruders' eggs amongst their own precious offspring. In response the cuckoo has evolved ...
Molecule freezes at sight of its reflection
... fresh, by building the mirror image of one of nature's own antifreeze molecules. Writing in this month's Journal of ... The team started by making a replica of the snowflea's own antifreeze molecule by chemically linking together the ...
Lithium shows scientists where to find far-off planets
... spectrum of light given off by a star, whilst others - our own Sun included - contain less than 1% of this amount. To ... into account, a surprising trend emerged. Stars like our own Sun, with planets, lacked lithium, whilst their more ...
Could nuclear testing cause earthquakes?
... Both of them can generate little earthquakes on their own, as to whether they can generate a big earthquake, the ... in is not enough to generate a big earthquake on it's own. Unfortunately, we don't know much about where the big ...
Fact Impact - Galaxies
... we've known that there are other galaxies beyond our own And now it's thought the visible Universe contains ... those first galaxies would have been much smaller than our own Milky Way, perhaps ten thousand times smaller. Bigger ...
Using CAD to reconstruct breast tissue
... to use this CAD model as a scaffold for the patient's own cells to grow through, meaning that a purpose-grown ... end result would be a new breast, made of the patient's own tissue that is perfectly symmetrical to the original. The ...
Play in kids' social development
... for play. So it's something that you're doing for its own sake, that it's not with a particular goal in mind, but ... other thing that we've been doing is getting children's own perspectives on play. So that's been really good fun! ... related to that, we've also been asking children for their own views and experiences of play too. Katie - So there's a ...
China's single time zone
... you might find that actually people there refer to their own time as being two hours behind Beijing time. In other words, they've invented their own unofficial time zone. Essentially, people begin to adapt ... the time, but also in new ways about the size of their own country. Don't forget that, when the time zone was ...
Peeking at poo: how some stay slim
... living there. And we know that everybody has got their own special mix. And up until now, the thought has been, ... mix. But what we wanted to know was, what if it's your own genetic makeup? Does that have any effect? Chris - ...
Video calling your doctor
... when you're not feeling well, it's nice to just be in your own home and be able to chat to your doctor or nurse like ... more assertive, if you will. So because they are in their own home and they have to, some do more self management in terms of their own care. They also take that responsibility towards ...
Could we farm out pest control to insects?
... the husbandry skills of Ambrosia beetles, which grow their own food source - fungus - and are the only farming insects ... Biedermann. 'But Ambrosia beetles have been growing their own food for over 30 million years. Whatever tricks they once ...
If you were in space without any protection what would kill you first?
... can block your mouth and nose, and you could drown in your own tears. Kat - Will they be frozen though? Caroline - I suppose. Would they freeze? Kat - You drown in your own frozen tears. Andrew - Oddly, they boil and freeze. So ...
Where is the HIV vaccine?
... genetic makeup represents only 0.0003 % the size of our own genome? Why is the HIV problem such a tough nut to crack? ... as a short sequence of genetic code sequestered within our own DNA. Critically though, it can re-emerge from this ... and answers, it is not difficult to imagine how our own expectations could let us down. It is sometimes difficult ...
The Art & Science of Homebrewing
... brew master to ferment the finest beers in your own home. A good brewer needs to know the proper method of ... basic scientific understanding to get started. Making your own beer requires that you seek balance in the recipe and ... get used to particular recipes and want to make them your own. You ask questions such as, “How much coriander should ...
What would cause the next nuclear strike?
... what they need to do. Chris - It would also be on his own doorstep, wouldn't it? Because if the intention is to ... cease to be the opposition's problem. It would be your own problem to clear it up. Richard - Absolutely. And of ... is now you would like to think of as part of your own? I think the other aspect, of course, is it's massively ...
The Evolution of Love
... is the point? If the purpose is ultimately to further our own species, why bother with love? Now scientists at the Max ... finch 'speed dating' the birds were able to choose their own mates. Of those which formed partnerships, Ihle took ...
Landing: The evolution of avionics
... could completely go to sleep. The aeroplane would find its own way there, with very modern avionics and would even land ... you get guided to within a mile or so of of the enemy your own radar can then guide you to it and you shoot it down. ... communicating through it. You're able to find your own targets. Somebody on the ground might send you a message ...
Do babies acquire immunity from breastmilk?
... so-called "passive immunity" while the infant animal's own immune system becomes established. But, we don't believe ... after that time the baby should be able to stand on its own two immunological feet. Unfortunately, although ...