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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 ...
A day on Mars
... one that lived over a century isn’t there? One of Darwin's tortoises? Patrick - Yes I think I’m with you on ...
The London Underground Mosquito
... World War. This story has inspired a new book called “Darwin Comes To Town – how the urban jungle drives ...
Could computers crack human emotions?
... communications. It's being studied scientifically since Darwin's time. He was interested in the way that we use ...
How can stars burn for billions of years?
... for animals to evolve. And he used that to argue against Darwin and of course he was completely wrong, right? The ...
Planet Earth - polychaete worms
... these polychaete worms at the Natural History Museum's Darwin Centre in London. Now, the worms can reach up to three ...
Evolution of music
... to a bit of this. So, we've got some of the tracks, the Darwin tunes as they're called. So here's the first track - ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Talking our way out of Africa
... Auckland in New Zealand. Quentin - Ever since Charles Darwin, it's been recognised that the evolution of languages ...
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 ...
What's 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 ...
Why do we open our mouths when shocked?
... been some interesting research that goes back as far as Darwin and more recently, Paul Ekman who actually looked at ...
How do spiders know how to make webs?
... well and is much less likely to pass its genes on. I think Darwin would've found this a good example actually of how ...
Do many plants signal danger to their neighbours?
... very complex situation building up. And indeed, Charles Darwin noticed that when plants were living in very ...
Why do some species have thousands of sterile individuals?
... but not as much as the queen. This posed a problem for Darwin when he was thinking about evolution by natural ...
Souping up Solar
... power technology including a Cambridge team racing from Darwin to Adelaide in a solar car, community co-operatives ...
Interactive evolution: simulating an ecosystem
... and adapt to their environment, and to each other, just as Darwin described. It’s called Ecosystem, and the Naked ...
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 ...
The art in science
... have always been vital to science’s history: Charles Darwin was a scientific illustrator, and so was author ...
How To Turn Down The Heat of Climate Change
... in Cambridge they have a series of lectures called the Darwin lectures and this year they're on survival. The final ...
An Alien Solar System
... to work together on a spectacular new telescope called Darwin/TPF (the Terrestrial Planet Finder). The idea of Darwin and TPF isto take the first pictures of an Earth-like ...
Prime numbers: Decoding the DNA of maths
... discovered it in 1859, which is the same year as Charles Darwin's publication of the Origin of Species. I think you ...
Racing solar powered cars
... and do a race, 3,000 kilometres from the north in Darwin to the south in Adelaide. There's about 40 teams that ...
Papers, please: the history of publishing
... lot of different types of formats. So for example, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species - that's a book. You also ...