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Europa

What might life on Europa look like?

... into a complex ecosystem. Chris - Essentially that's like Darwin's warm little pools, isn't it? These hot springs. If ...

John Sulston

Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sir John Sulston

... behind the human genome project. Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sir John Sulston ...

Sourdough bread

YEAST!

... documented, but it's a big evolutionary story. It's like Darwin's finches, except at the end you get beer. Chris - ...

Rapid changes in the genes for transfer RNA have been observed have been observed in experiments on yeast.

From fungi to beer: the evolution of yeast

... documented, but it's a big evolutionary story. It's like Darwin's finches, except at the end you get beer. Chris - ...

NMR structure of the central region of the human GluR-B R/G pre-mRNA, from the protein data bank ID 1ysv

Chemists cook up recipe for life

... simple way to make the other two bases. "Then we've got Darwin's little pond," says Sutherland.  Regardless of ...

A spider's web

The spider that eats its own penis

... life. Those things aren't going to grow back. And Charles Darwin defined procreation as the whole point of life. It's ...

Alison Woollard - Genetic revolutions

... proposed a mechanism for heredity that was missing from Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. So, that ...

Cartoon of a virus or germ

Mutations in SARS-CoV-2: friend or foe?

... the virus, similar in principle to those made by Charles Darwin to describe how species evolve over time. Differences ...

Can elephants cry?

... produce tears. I mean, it's something that puzzled even Darwin. There's a really nice book called "Why humans weep." ...

Transmitting H5N1 and A 50 Gigapixel Camera!

... refine pieces of music enjoyed by the masses. The website Darwin tunes, which has been online since 2009, invited ...

Page from a hieroglyph dictionary

What did the Egyptians have against alphabets?

... fittest survive! Meghan - Those who are dedicated. Chris - Darwin would approve! Meghan-  Yeah, absolutely. How were ...

The appendix

What your appendix does for you

... this is a very recent change in perspective because even Darwin thought that the appendix is completely useless. He ...

ADHD

Is there an evolutionary advantage to ADHD?

... like this is it's actually, people have found ever since Darwin, that it's actually quite easy to come up with ...

Fiddler crab

Flirting crabs hit the dance-claw

... you conclude from this? Sophie - These were conducted in Darwin in the Northern Territory which is great because there ...

The image shows a field at sunset.

Thieving grasses skip evolution

... our understanding of the theory of evolution. The basis of Darwin’s theory is that all life descends from a common ...

Hearts

What is the purpose of sexual reproduction ?

... are more likely to be passed on. This is the basis of Darwin's theory of evolution and the mechanism by which it ...

Dinosaur skeleton

What was the first dinosaur discovered?

... physicists of his day used this fact to argue against Darwin right. He said the Earth and the Sun can only be about ...

Archie The Giant Squid

... Beckerleg, our roving Naked Scientist reporter down at the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum in London, ...

Stanley Miller's experimental set up

Getting Life Started on Earth

... happened in a sort of a global atmosphere. Chris -   It's Darwin's warm little pond almost, isn't it?  So, you're ...

Lava field at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

How early life copied itself

... working on it! Chris - Does this mean though, that in Darwin's little pool where there must have been these early ...

Child laughing heartily

How did laughter evolve?

... between what you expect and what actually happens. Darwin said that basically there's incongruity; you mustn't ...

IgNobel founder Marc Abrahams, Wisconsin-Madison scientists Molly Jahn, ABC Science Show's Robyn Williams, Naked Scientist Chris Smith, MIT's Kathleen Kennedy and UK science minister David Willetts at the AAAS, 2014.

Naked at the AAAS 2014 meeting

... people? Robyn -   Well, the figures for the rejection of Darwin and Evolutionary theory I thought was something like ... Australia about 30% of the population doesn’t agree with Darwin’s ideas.  I thought it was more like over half in ... in the United States so that you can actually teach Darwin’s ideas freely and exchange these ideas without the ...

Foetus in ultrasound

Why are some people left handed?

... see that very easily in small modern families.  Charles Darwin had 10 children.  His wife was left-handed and two of ...

Multiple- resistant TB, Methane under the Antarctic and Curling Cucumbers.

... have been posing a problem for scientists since before Darwin's time. Tendril twistability helps the cucumber plant ...

The peppered moth.

The Evolution of the Peppered Moth

... a huge difference between somewhere like Galapagos, where Darwin made many of his observations, and 'us'.  By 'us' I ...