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How many invertebrates go extinct in Australia each week?
... the University of Adelaide and John Woinarski at Charles Darwin University point out, the problem isn’t just one of ... Marsh, University of Adelaide, & John Woinarski, Charles Darwin University Bugs' lives... How many invertebrates go ...
Your Questions and the Science of Sword Swallowing
... Walk' with Sir David Attenborough to learn about Charles Darwin, and Dave seems to defy physics by making bubbles that ... walk' with Sir David Attenborough to learn about Charles Darwin, and Dave seems to defy physics by making bubbles that ...
The roamin' Roman Empire, and Charles Darwin's love life
... the way out of the biodiversity crisis? And, was charles darwin as romantic as he was scientifically brilliant? Plus, ... of animal hybrids The roamin' Roman Empire, and Charles Darwin's love life ...
Jellyfish stirring things up.
... This was an idea first reported 50 years ago by Charles Darwin - grandson of famous author of On the Origin of ... out that up to 90% of the water movement came down to Darwin's theory and not because of a turbulent wake streaming ...
Genes jump from snakes to cows
... results must be wrong. It's really weird. Kat - So, either Darwin was completely wrong, evolution isn't true, or there's ... is going on here? This is nuts! Nell - Well, we think Darwin wasn't wrong, so that's a relief at least, but what it ...
The Tide of Toads Plaguing Australia
... at the movement patterns of toads up in the bush near Darwin, we've found that longer legs help toads to move ... mostly studying the snakes at an area not too far from Darwin for about 20 years. We've got a study site that we ...
The Jellyfish Effect
... researchers found that a theory developed by Sir Charles Darwin actually described the effect of these jellyfish quite well. Sir Charles Darwin was in fact the grandson of the more famous ...
World Solar Challenge: Across Australia
... 26 countries racing across the Australian outback from Darwin to Adelaide in purpose-built solar-powered cars. To ... all the time? Stephen - We're mainly driving from Darwin in the north, to Adelaide in the south and so, the sun ...
Darwin's missing notebooks
... news recently, hasn't it Emma, because of the news about Darwin's missing notebooks. Have you heard about this? Emma - ... of scientists behind the latest Naked Scientists show... Darwin's missing notebooks ...
Fit Fathers, Unfit Daughters
... have relatively low breeding success. Chris - Because Darwin would have us believe that as you breed populations ... is expected to favour only the best adapted individuals; Darwin's survival of the fittest. What we're suggesting is ...
Did Life on Earth Begin in an Asteroid Crater ?
... A hole in the ground, full of water and heat really is Darwin's proverbial warm little pond, the ideal place for ... micro-organisms. Charles Cockell, Open University Was Darwin's little pool, where life began, in an impact ...
Grass roots fossil finding
... option that's probably from dinosaurs. Chris - Was Charles Darwin cognisant of fossils? Did he use them to reinforce his ... they weren't so useful to him? Lucy - Bit of both. Darwin was actually a very good geologist and he's famous for ... still, but you didn't know how old any of them were. So Darwin tried to calculate based on how fast the land was ...
Why do I get travel sick?
... - Have you ever had thing actually where you get, Erasmus Darwin who was Charles Darwin's uncle I think, first described it and said, he ...
Finding the Oldest Evidence of Life
... at the fossil record though, and this frustrated Charles Darwin, life appears to pop into existence about 540 million ... I think that's right. This is an important factor that Darwin was puzzled about. The lack of information is that ...
What makes a mammal?
... from? Liam - When people starting doing taxonomy after Darwin, which was based upon shared history and ... mousey thing. Liam - Yeah, precisely. For a century after Darwin, people were doing taxonomy on morphological basis. ... Liam - Yeah and I had a moment - that was actually in Darwin’s garden, I think - I was just wandering around ...
Scientific Springfield - The Science of the Simpsons
... of species was written by a cowardly drunk named Charles Darwin," "This is slander. Darwin was one of the greatest minds of all time!" "Then, why ...
Why have sex?
... male and just makes all female progeny. Georgia - Key to Darwin's theory of natural selection is survival of the ...
"Whats Science Ever Done for Us?" What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life and the Universe
... and many illusions to people such as Neil spore, Einstein, Darwin and Newton...I thought it was about time to look at ...
Talking our way out of Africa
... Auckland in New Zealand. Quentin - Ever since Charles Darwin, it's been recognised that the evolution of languages ...
Solar Powered Car Race
... Australia and do a race 3,000 kilometres from the north in Darwin to the south in Adelaide. There's about 40 teams ...
How to fill the ark
... journal Ecological Economics, Kerstin Zander from Charles Darwin University in Australia, led a team of scientists who ...
The London Underground Mosquito
... World War. This story has inspired a new book called “Darwin Comes To Town – how the urban jungle drives ...
Dancing in your Genes
... dance. Now it's thought to be that dancing might be, as Darwin suggested, some kind of courtship ritual so that like ...
Human evolution - Professor Mark Thomas
... that we think about is natural selection. And of course, Darwin first proposed this is the means by which species ...
Coming to a billboard near you: self-evolving adverts
... able to create self-evolving adverts inspired by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Visar Shabi works on genetic ...