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Cannibal galaxies and dark matter hurricanes
... for want of a better word, of stars which are doing their own thing and you can see that they're moving in a trajectory ... tells you that those have obviously come in with their own agenda, their own direction, movement, velocity, and that's how you could ...
Opening Oreos with perfect precision
... Naked Scientists office, and it seems everyone has their own way of eating them. Recently a team at the Massachusetts ... that persuasion. And since this just so happens to be our own Otis Kingsman’s preferred method of eating an Oreo, we ... distributed the design files for someone to make their own Oreometer, to do other tests, maybe with Oreos at ...
Rodents use smell to navigate social status
... social rank of an unfamiliar mouse and compare it to their own. They use this information to determine their behaviour. ... I suppose it has to weigh up two bits of information: its own standing in the social hierarchy and that of its ... we've reached a reasonably good understanding of how your own position in the hierarchy is encoded in the brain. We've ...
How high can a mountain be?
... mountains eventually tend to fall down, just through their own weight. And the important concept here is something ... a certain height, it will begin to fall down under its own weight. So, the Himalayan chain is actually beginning to ... - Thanks, Nicky. So, mountains fall down due to their own weight and the height at which they start to fall is due ...
Technology Update - Hyper-Local News
... and route finders many of us no-longer feel the need to own or even look at a map. There's more to a map than meets ... health records showing who lived and died. He added his own data, the data that he and Whitehead had collected, took ... was the other way around. He developed the theory on its own that the water was the problem. He built the map more ...
Mob rule to scare away cuckoos
... away with it, but if you're the victim you're wasting your own resources on someone else's DNA. Writing in Current ... and just reject any eggs that don't look like their own, but the cuckoos have evolved to be able to lay 'mimic' ... strategy according to their conditions, not unlike our own military! Mob rule to scare away cuckoos ...
Liver grown from stem cells
... steps down a road that could see doctors using a person's own cells to grow a replacement liver. Yokohama City ... whether their replacement livers could replace an animal's own organ. By implanting their human liver replacement tissue ... mice genetically programmed to develop failure of their own livers, the Japanese team were able to show survival ...
Garrett Hellenthal - British Genes
... that different parts of the UK seem to harbour their own distinctive genetic flavour and revealing where some of ... that you've been isolated, you might start to develop your own cultural traits. But it doesn't mean in any way that the ... and hence, it's not surprising that they have their own minor cultural differences. Kat - There's quite a lot in ...
Spying on the stars
... orbiting around a star - obviously not including our own solar system. Publishing their results in the journal ... also younger, with a big far-out dust disk, similar to our own Kuiper belt. The planets, which formed about sixty ... that the system may be a scaled-up version of our own Solar System, but going round a brighter and bigger star. ...
Jeff Bezos' moon lander
... satellites potentially, and instruments. It's part of his own programme but it's got to the point where he's designed, ... probably break even, where Bezos is funding it with his own money. Adam - So there are at a very different stage in ... has claimed that he is putting in a billion a year of his own money into this project. Adam - So that means he's got a ...
Early humans get a taste for seafood
... particularly for Neanderthals and for early members of our own species. And what this tells us is that marine food stuff ... seem to have been a critical part of the evolution of our own species and we have a number of sites on the coast of ... South Africa and on the Horn of Africa too that reveal our own species using shellfish 100-130,000 years ago. The ...
What are ultra-luminous X-ray sources?
... whether they are similar to some black holes we see in our own galaxy, thet are roughly the size of our sun or whether ... we've seen very similar behaviour in sources in our own galaxy when they're at their brightest. And the great thing about the sources in our own galaxy is we know how big the black holes are. The ...
DNA of things: storing DNA in objects
... use exactly the same molecule as biology uses to store our own blueprints, but we don’t use natural DNA,” explained ... for it to be safely mixed into plastic. “DNA on its own does not mix with polymers, and even if it did it would ... this technique allows inanimate objects to carry their own designs inside them, just like living things do. “At ...
Tooth plaque reveals what Neanderthals ate
... the evolution of modern human diets and how our own bacterial components have evolved. Remains from two ... dental calculus, a technique that has only come into its own in recent years, 30 years after dental calculus was first ... history opens a window into the evolution of our own microbiomes and health. “To be able to track the ...
Out of Body Experiences - On Demand!
... typically involves a sensation of floating outside ones own body and, in some cases, seeing ones physical body from a ... they were seeing on the screen was them outside of their own body, as Dr Henrik Ehrsson explained, when the discovery ... a head-mounted display (goggles). So they would see their own bodies being stroked 2 metres in front of them. What then ...
Kitchen Science - Rising Arms
... with a flu, leaving me to handle Kitchen Science all on my own. But luckily, I'll be joined later on by Meera ...
Coding and tech skills help refugees and low-income communities to succeed
... improve access to technology and skills development in his own community. Ibrahim Ouassari set up the MolenGeek coding ... to pursue a career in the tech industry or set up their own business. It has a mix of students, entrepreneurs and ... who just want to learn the technical skills for their own use. They may have their own project or just wish to get ...
Is your Internet security up to scratch?
... those networks in less than 60 seconds and show them their own passwords. And what was very amusing was of course, most people didn't know their own password and had to go and look at the sticker they put ... experiment. As we were cycling around, we had our very own wireless network which we offered to members of the ...
Hard graft yields new artificial arteries
... vessel - the ideal source was usually one of their own long saphenous veins, which run up the legs. And ... of months. In general, except where pieces of a patient's own vessels are used, most vascular grafts (75%) work for ... study of the implanted grafts showed that the animal's own endothelial cells, which line the vasculature, had grown ...
Stomach sensations
... toilet. Katie - I've heard that the gut actually has its own brain. Jeremy - Well it's not a brain like our head ... - what makes the gut so special that it deserves its own brain? Jeremy - Well one could turn that question around ... Jeremy - So the gut actually is able to control its own movement entirely through the enteric nervous system. ...
Trans-poo-sion: the faecal transplant
... work? Brendan - It's poo so people may be able have their own or maybe their partners and more and more commonly now is the idea of poo banks around. So, within your own poo, you obviously have your own microbes and you need actually to start establish the ...
The First Amphibian Genome – A Genetic Leap Forward
... has roughly the same number of protein coding genes as our own. The western clawed frog is particularly interesting for ... genome is remarkably similar to that of the chicken or our own in basic structure, for example, frog genes have very ... human genes. Frogs are known to produce their own antibiotic compounds, to help keep their moist skin free ...
Parasites and Allergies
... bit immunosuppressive, dampen the immune system for their own protection. In the absence of those parasites and those ... in mice so that parasites were able to expand the body's own mechanism that protects us from allergy. Kat - So the ... the parasite manipulating this human immune system in its own interest, but at the same time, actually having a ...
Why bother with the appendix?
... bacteria that live with us. There are 10 trillion of our own cells containing our own DNA in our body. But there are actually a hundred ... them, our bacteria, the appendix acts as a place where our own resident bacteria can hide and stay safe, until after all ...
Electric eel ten times the power of a taser
... can be tested directly, and the resistance of the eel's own body could be measured by getting the animal to strike at ... one critical part of the circuit open - the victim's own tissue. For this measurement, Catania contributed his own arm. Using a specially-built apparatus that enabled him ...