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One in Five Sun-like stars have Earth-like Planets
... it means for the search for other worlds a bit like our own, we're joined now by Dr. Andrew Howard who is at the ... a census of the planets orbiting the stars nearest to our own solar system. We looked at each one of the 166 stars ... finding sit with our understanding of how systems like our own do put themselves together and evolve in the first place? ...
Finding a meteorite for yourself...
... tips from astronomer Carolin Crawford on how to find your own hunk of Chelyabinsk meteorite fragmentspace metal after ... in their insulation in the roof. So they had their own little meteorite that had hit their roof - I think that's ... University of Cambridge Top tips on how to get your very own space rock... Finding a meteorite for yourself... ...
Implanted Electronics and Artificial Skin
... made on very hard and flat surfaces. If you look at our own body we are a 3D object that is moving all around. The ... brittle but materials that can be elastic, similar to our own skin, for example. Kat - A kind of bionic man-type thing? ... that we can mimic sensory function that is embedded in our own skin. Kat - how are things going at the moment? What sort ...
The science of a bushfire
... fires, when they get so very big, they end up making their own weather system. Guillermo - Fires are self sustaining by ... So then this smoke, under some conditions creates its own clouds and then these actually move around. Also you need ... smoke going upwards, and the sucking in of air creates its own wind, and these winds actually further accelerate the ...
Policing social media: is it possible?
... to the death of teenager Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017, and whose Instagram feed was later found to ... certain types of content, they fighting against their own internal...? Peter - Exactly. So I'll give you an example ... - I'm sure the three of us in this studio all have our own views about this, and all your listeners will have their ...
Pirate Bay on the Plank
... shared. Obviously this is very controversial. People who own the copyright don't like this kind of thing: the music ... use. I think what's interesting about Yahoo, they own some very interesting properties. They own Flickr, del.icio.us, they own Upcoming, they're heavily ...
Mythconception - are bats really blind?
... was this idea to drop a bomb full of bats, each with their own bomb on timer. The bats would flee from the larger bomb, ... nightly meal it will very kindly vomit some of it’s own dinner into their mouth. I bet your neighbours wouldn’t ... shaped faces, but they’re all good looking in their own way. If you still think they look a bit scary, look up a ...
Meet our panel
... Prize, didn't it? These are planets that are not in our own solar system. They're planets orbiting stars elsewhere ... this is that planets don't usually emit very much of their own light. They're usually blinded by the light of the star ... has at least one or two planets around it. And in our own galaxy alone, there are 200 billion stars, something like ...
Kenya’s National Parks Not Safe from Wildlife Decline
... encourage communities to become closely aligned with their own wildlife sanctuaries, their own lodges, their own scouts and their own conservation efforts' said Western. ...
The Event Horizon Telescope project
... of the shadow cast by the black hole at the centre of our own galaxy, as he explains to Georgia Mills... Shep - There's ... something like that? Shep - Well, in a paradox of their own immense gravity, black holes, which by definition are ... one of these black hole shadows is in the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy and radio waves are the perfect medium ...
How do magnets work?
... which makes a little tiny electromagnet. Now on its own this doesn’t make something even magnetic. These little ... here is lots and lots of tiny little metal nuts. On their own they’re not stuck to each other; whereas you bring a ... problematic, and these iron nuts are the same. On their own they don’t stick to each other but because they have ...
Quirkology
... should send a card like that but you know, each to their own. People who tended to send those cards were the ... them into that comfort zone. Helen - Richard, I make my own cards. What does that say about me? Richard - That means ... throw all that card stuff away. Helen - I put a lot of my own energy and my own thought process into it. Richard - ...
Why the building microbiome matters
... in us. And not just us, the environment around us has its own microbiome. This is essential for everyone's good health. ... it'll diversify your desk. And could that improve our own microbiome diversity and our own health long term? Chris - And do they, Phoebe? Phoebe - ...
Battle of the Bugs
... that the key to killing MRSA may lie with one of its own relatives. In a paper published in Nature this week, ... 2. So why would Staph epidermidis want to kick out its own cousin? Pure selfishness is the answer. By taking up ... that the key to killing MRSA may lie with one of its own relatives - Staphylococcus epidermidis Battle of the Bugs ...
A Breathalyser Test To Sniff Out Bombers
... will allow you to probe right back to the start of our own universe pretty much. How does all this talk of UFOs sit ... the interesting question for me. We're searching in our own solar system to try and find life on other planets, and ... to find amoeba life, let alone intelligent life like our own. So the big question for me is if these UFOs really are ...
Mythconception: We share half our DNA with bananas
... vitamin C gene. Whereas some animals can produce their own vitamin C, we have to get it from our diet by eating ... genes’. When a virus infects a cell, it injects its own DNA into that cell, and this DNA replicates itself as ... the offspring will have that virus DNA integrated into its own. Because viruses are everywhere, this has happened a lot ...
The CytoMatrix: Reloaded
... the body, stem cells grown on the Cytomatrix secrete their own growth factors which means they can multiply, producing 4 ... cell transplant but have no available stem cells of their own". The other major benefit of establishing a pool of your own cells is that, rather than using stem cells only as a ...
Can we distinguish ChatGPT from human speech?
... ChatGPT some questions which I knew the answers to from my own research, to see if it would get it. And what concerned ... - I wouldn't trust it. For example, it does make up its own references, so I certainly wouldn't trust it to write my ... first draft maybe of something, but then you can use your own tools and skills as a student, as a scholar, to make it ...
3D printing a mini heart
... the world. Each of those hearts went to someone whose own heart was failing and for whom all other treatments had ... Steven - So what we would do is we would take a patient's own cells and basically reprogramme them to the different ... the mini heart though, you don't need to have a patient's own cells because it's not designed to be implanted back into ...
Don't Worry, be Happy!
... of Independence While happiness itself is sought for its own sake, every other goal -- health, beauty, money, or power ... There are plenty of miserable millionaires. In my own case I have often found an inverse correlation between my ... that are truly enjoyable are those that we do for their own sake; because they are intrinsically, not extrinsically, ...
Gene therapy for epidermolysis bullosa
... which are cells that we can generate from the patient's own cells. Because the cells have a potential of ... instance, if you put them onto an animal in place of its own skin, do they work? Joanna - Yes. We used for this immune ... you to do this in a patient, because it would be their own cells, there wouldn't be an immune problem. So you could ...
Tiktaalik
... birds, mammals and even us. So this is part of our own, albeit very ancient, evolutionary past. The discovery's ... of bones that compare very closely to the bones in our own wrist, in our own hand. And so in that sense, it's a real mosaic. It tells ...
Better screening needed for transpoosion
... simple to do yourself - taking matters into their own hands. Kat - Do we know whether there are any ill effects ... which is crazy because there's also people storing their own poo for when they get ill later because the best donor is ... thinking about this and at the moment, we can store our own poo but it would break through any regulations to give it ...
3D-printed rabbit with its own DNA blueprint
... use exactly the same molecule as biology uses to store our own blueprints, but we don't use natural DNA. But we have the ... we really did, is 3-D printed objects, which contain their own building instruction or blueprint within this 3-D printed ... you replicate a plastic rabbit? 3D-printed rabbit with its own DNA blueprint ...
Why asteroid YR4 won't collide with Earth in 2032
... the thing about an asteroid is that it doesn't emit its own light, it just reflects sunlight. And the bigger it is, ... the European Space Agency is just starting to set up its own network of surveillance telescopes, every night, they ... more than halfway between the Earth and Mars in its own elliptical orbit about the Sun, an orbit that it's had ...