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Microbial bioink makes 3D printed materials
... drugs, removing toxins from the air and regulating its own growth. “This is part of a general effort to ... Communications. Biological systems like a tree or our own body can respond to their environment, for example by ... properties of toothpaste, which is firm enough to hold its own weight when resting, but will flow much like a liquid ...
Dark matter close to home
... mysterious material that produces no visible light of its own, but which astronomers need to explain the tremendous ... see: dark matter. But how much dark matter is there in our own solar system, and could we detect it? We think there's ... throughout the galaxy, whereas planetary systems like our own are tiny condensations of matter -- a few lighthours ...
Galactic archaeology: using stars as fossils
... many as 400 billion stars, one of which is, of course, our own sun. But how and when did these stars form, and where did ... our galaxy could reveal a great deal, not only about our own home but also about the universe as a whole. So-called ... and explain some of the interesting complexities of our own. Of course, given our location inside it, the Milky Way ...
Anatomically accurate bone regrown
... accurate replacement bones using an individual's own cells has been developed by scientists in the US. There ... in the body. Although this means patients receive their own tissue, the practice is painful and limited by the volume ... produces replacement bone parts replete with the patient's own bone-forming cells. Working with pigs, which are a good ...
First ever uterus transplant in the UK
... The organ was donated to the recipient - who lacked her own uterus - by her sister, who had completed her own family. Ellie Patterson is a junior doctor currently ... following the story over a number of years. She took our own Chris Smith through what the procedure involves… Ellie ...
What is spin?
... Sun then the spin is as if the planet is spinning on its own axis as it revolves around the Sun. So just like the ... other words the sum of electrons going clockwise on their own axis, and some are going anticlockwise. But in certain ... of a fridge magnet, it's holding itself up against its own weight against the gravitational force and that's all ...
Would a sea water enema help hydration?
... things in mind, I do think that water enemas on their own, or water on its own, is perhaps unlikely to be absorbed in a clinically ... a significant absorption of fluid. Diana - Water on its own probably wouldn't do very much, but a saline solution ...
The Lost Family: revelations from DNA tests
... to these databases, is it changing how we understand our own identities? Phil Sansom sat down with Libby for an ... over 400 emails from readers who wanted to tell me their own DNA testing stories. You know, "I tested it and this is ... things that we have to discover for ourselves. We find our own language for them. We find our own labels for them. We ...
Belly fat stem cells improve spinal injury recovery
Could an injection of stem cells grown from your own abdominal fat be the key to improving outcomes for people ... adipose derived. Those words mean stem cells from your own fat, belly fat. I had a colleague who said to me ... knew that belly fat could be so useful?' So, from your own belly fat, we remove that and expand the cells until we ...
Co-op parents: meerkats and mongooses
... evolved and is shedding light on the roots of our own species’ collaborative abilities. Living in the flat, ... the selfish drive for survival and to pass on their own genes means few will help to raise the offspring of ... infanticide. We think none of the females know who their own pups are so they care for all of them just in case they ...
Training scientists to collaborate
... middle of an academic setting being told, “You need your own line of research, your own ideas and find your own funding, and your own network” pretty much. It is ...
Crickets make leaf amplifiers
... by the females who can use them to identify males of their own species from other males and find the males. These tree ... aid that helps them be louder than they would be on their own. Chris - Really what do they do? Natasha - They make a ... this? Natasha - So between a cricket that singing on its own and one in an optimal baffle there's a four times change. ...
Winks, Wobbles and Blips - Finding Exoplanets
... Obviously we're very familiar with the planets in our own solar system. We've known about those for a long ... star directly just as we can't see the planets in our own solar system when it's daytime, when the sun is up. Meera ... of sight on the Earth. We see this phenomenon in our own solar system. If Mercury passes between us and the sun ...
Tick Tock: Circadian Clock
... in almost every cell in the body. So each organ has its own clock, which sets the timing of the physiological rhythms ... the body's clocks, in all of the other tissues, set their own watches by. So what sets the master clock? This is ... other cell sees these signals and uses them to keep its own clock in check. This is great for keeping the body ...
Ocean Dead Zones, Fossil HIV and Beetle Antibiotics
Using your own red blood cells as a Trojan horse to sneak-in chemicals ... us about the origin of AIDS and how beetles create their own antibiotics all feature in this week's Naked Scientists ... 7km train transporting ore across South Africa! Using your own red blood cells as a Trojan horse to sneak-in chemicals ...
Monitoring marine reserves
... why I went to Fiji in the first place, is that Fijians own their reefs. So, just like you would own the land in your backyard and if somebody wanted to set ... in Fiji, they have to ask the permission of the people who own that reef. And so, the Fijians have this custom called ...
Why bother looking good?
... mate with other good looking people by demonstrating our own attractiveness. There is also a cultural explanation, ... we see attractive people so we try and demonstrate our own attractiveness. Katie - Now, I’ve made a bit of an ... on their appearance, and also tend to believe that their own appearance has a huge impact on life outcomes; whether ...
Chatty Dolphins
... very unusual signals, in that every animal develops its own specific sound early in life and then uses that to ... the animals really only responded when we copied their own signature whistle, but did not to all the control sounds. ... when it's quite young. So, does each dolphin create its own nickname in a way? Vincent - Yes, so one of the big ...
The spider that eats its own penis
... no one has ever asked a male Malabar why he eats his own penis at that point. But a team of scientists from Asia ... boggles, but is there anything to be said that eating your own palp might give you that burst of energy needed to defeat ... next act, to me, is almost as astonishing as eating his own palp. And it is that he offers himself as dinner to the ...
Ball-rolling bumblebees capable of reasoning
... pick up the behaviour from seeing the ball roll in on its own, but were found to learn even more efficiently when ... available, the second observed the ball moving on its own (pulled by a magnet out of view of the bees) and the ... animals, though the bees' behaviour is fascinating in its own right. Despite this, while the best of the them might be ...
Why don't spiders get caught in their own web?
... itself is very well adapted to avoid getting stuck in its own glue. But the interesting thing about this one, I went to ... things that spiders use to avoid getting stuck in their own webs. The second of which is they have a really clever ... eight years old. Why does the spider not get stuck to its own spider web? THANK YOU. Why don't spiders get ...
Why is a king cobra not affected by its own venom?
... the reason is the same reason that you don't die from your own gastric stomach juices. If they get in to the wrong part ... expert they said you can also detect antibody to their own venom in some snakes. Just in case some spilled over I ... go any further. Why is a king cobra not affected by its own venom? Why is a king cobra not affected by its own venom? ...
Making and sequencing synthetic DNA
... this once, we took the initiative? What if we made our own DNA? Because you can just do that. You can chuck a load ... that we are approaching an age of being able to sub in our own DNA to replace faulty strands, but let's keep our eyes on ... on nature, given that each organism forms and checks its own DNA instantaneously, millions and millions of times a ...
Bitcoin: the psychology of getting rich
... supply and demand, but there's also people who basically own that market and manipulate it, regulators might have a ... Promises of "trustless", "decentralised", and "be your own bank". You don't want to be your own bank. Why the hell would I want to be my own bank? Who ...
A new Earth-like exoplanet
... the discovery of an Earth-like planet that's outside our own solar system. It's thought that liquid water, as well ... There are six of them now, so each one pulls with its own period and these are strictly periodic Keplerian motions ... more like it elsewhere in the Milky Way because our own galaxy has got what, two hundred billion stars in it? ...