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Google delays DIY smartphone initiative
... lend me your speaker, etc. And also, people who make their own bits, but the downsides are, it will be a bit bigger ... used. There's an open source car, so you can build your own car using components, print your own components. There are drones, robots and a number of ...
Washing your Hands!
... and allocate a toilet to the sick individual with their own hand washing basin. If you haven't got that luxury, ... then making sure that the affected person has their own towels and flannels. There's no sharing of those kind ... What practical advice can you give people for a.) their own hand hygiene to make sure that they don't either transmit ...
Encyclopaedia corner: black holes and kilograms
... And then from those measuring companies would make their own standards. And that's how they'd calibrate weighing ... iridium, because that doesn't rust and won't change on its own. Phil - Now scientists, I know, love to be precise. Adam ... the kilogram on eBay. Wouldn't that be fun? Adam - Yeah. I own the kilogram. Deal with it. Phil - That's fantastic. Adam ...
Brain implant that restores touch
... over a number of years now by a few groups, including our own here at the University of Pittsburgh, where people have ... he feels as though sensations are coming from his own hand. Chris - What sorts of sensations does he say he ... these stimulus strains it feels as though it is your own hand being touched. We've got a lot of work to do on ...
A Conscious Computer?
... simply look at the neural circuits and meet them on their own terms and ask, how do we get systems of interacting cells ... Schizophrenia form predictions and how they evaluate their own predictions, what we found is that they often get things ... we recognise particular errors that we might make in our own judgment. I don't know whether you've seen the film ...
Do our voices sound different in our heads?
... In radio, I am constantly disappointed by the sound of my own voice so, I was keen to bring in the experts for this ... a bit more 'god like'. It's like having a producer on our own voices.Nick - Yes, I imagine that's exactly right. It's ...
Psychologist gives the gift of Xmas shopping advice
... someone a better version of a product than the one that we own ourselves. In fact, we might just not buy them that ... the version that's slightly worse than the one that you own because you don't want to feel in competition with them - ... our egocentric thinking. We are thinking so much about our own disappointment that we actually forget that the person ...
Are black holes magnetic?
... galaxy. This is the nearest example of a black hole to our own sun, and it weighs millions of times the mass of our sun. ... we think stars have quite strong magnetic fields. Our own sun for example has quite a strong magnetic field and ...
A history of telescopes
... of 1609, hears about the telescope and begins making his own. And it's in the autumn, kind of October, November, that ... And finally he says that Jupiter has four of its own moons circling around it. And some of these are claims ... sphere, undermines that. The idea that Jupiter has its own moons moving around it as the centre undermines the idea ...
Using antibodies to treat COVID
... get sick and they haven't got good antibodies of their own. And what we found was if we use the antibodies in the drug and give those to patients who don't have their own antibodies, actually we can reduce the risk of dying. We ... for antibodies. And if they don't have antibodies of their own the treatment would then be given. Chris - And how big a ...
Hobbyists hope to make spaceflight history
... to the right shop. Only now we are starting to develop our own liquid fueled rocket engines, these are by-propellant ... could send this mission to space on the back of our own engine. So we call this new engine White Giant, it ...
Will robots take over the world?
... what we think that they might be - building them in our own image in our own minds? Martin - Well that's part of the problem. Every ... bring to that word all the baggage that we have from our own experiences of being a sentient creature. So we talk ...
How Gamblers and Pigeon Are Similiar
... and pigeons learn about rewards and risks from their own experiences. So, when we were looking at when they're ... similarly had to go into this environment and from their own experience, find out what was hidden behind the different ...
The planets suite
... a massive body, which is four times larger than our own Jupiter and orbits once every 14 years, and a ... a 260 day orbit, similar to the trajectory of Venus in our own solar system. This means that it's likely to be a warm ...
Are we living in the matrix?
... civilizations might also attain the ability to run their own simulations, such that there are simulations within ... to simulate a full realistic universe as complex as our own, why would they want to? A good place to start in ... civilisations may also attain the ability to run their own simulated realities, so if we are living in a simulation, ...
Chuckling cuckoo imitates predator
... up raising cuckoo chicks, often at the expense of their own offspring. In order to carry out their cunning deed, ... the reed warbler’s attention from its nest to its own safety, increasing the cuckoo’s chances of successfully ...
Can plants keep time?
... a coordination between them or is each cell doing its own thing, but it just all occurs at the same time. Kate - I ... earlier. Alex - At least in leaf cells, each cell has its own light sensor. So, these proteins are present in all the ... of Cambridge Alex Webb tells us how plants have their own body clock, and how they don't like to be woken up too ...
QotW: Can accents influence my brain's voice?
... voice, and for some people the voice has the person’s own accent! In an interesting study, researchers at the ... that participants produced inner speech with their own accent while reading. James - How interesting. You ...
3D Tissue Imaging and Subordinate Meerkats
... very close by you can see, well, has that tumour got its own blood supply or is it a very early stage tumour that is yet to develop its own blood supply? --- New compound to treat Autism A drug to ...
In the open
... are reading your work and then referring to it on their own work, siting it. There are a lot of studies that show ... to be more likely to cite it and refer to it in their own work. Chris - What about the question though that people ...
Many new mouse mutations
... themselves so that they can get that mouse into their own laboratory and do their own specialised tests because they're the experts in their own disease areas. And so, they're likely to be able to do ...
Replacement pancreas grown in a rat
... a mixture of mouse and rat cells. Critically the rat's own DNA had been genetically edited to deactivate a gene ... mice with a form of diabetes caused by the loss of their own pancreatic cells. Other than administering a short 5 day ...
How does it feel to be a bee?
... – or subjective experience of the world and their own bodies – there are still huge gaps in our knowledge. ... really fit into the categories that we use to describe our own feelings,’ he said. Animal welfare Part of the ASENT ... On top of that, says Prof. Broom, we have stages in our own lives when we are less sentient – such as before birth ...
Studying walking to understand cerebral palsy
... in the Netherlands. ‘The ability to walk on your own comes later.’ Dr Dominici and her team are using the ... the muscular and brain power required to walk on their own for a project called Learn2Walk. In a paper published in ...
Contagious cancer steals DNA from host
... The majority of cancers we see arise from an individual's own cells, but in this dog tumour the cells from that ... If you can imagine that dogs usually carry around their own normal mitochondria, but these host mitochondria then ...