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Cities of 2100
... will be smarter. Buildings will generate their own energy and the city itself will work on what’s ... Buildings of the future will be generating their own energy. They’ll also be doing a lot of things we want ... jobs. Georgia - When you say they’ll generate their own energy, in what kind of way might they do this? Mike - ...
Pay out from Nature’s marine Bank helps alleviate poverty
... not to mention protecting nature and biodiversity for its own sake. But it's really difficult to persuade governments ... it is to have local people involved in managing their own marine reserves, giving them a sense of ownership and ... see that they make a huge difference by investing in their own marine banks - which ensure that not only the creatures ...
How to be a Naked Scientist
... audio perfected. It was very strange at first hearing my own voice on repeat during editing and I also noticed in the ... about the key parts of the show. It was bizarre to hear my own voice on the cow myth, as it was broadcast live on BBC ... myth about cows last week, I set about writing one of my own. I researched a few and discovered that lots of things I ...
Bloody good: scientists create first artificial blood stem cells
... that can make bone marrow stem cells from a patient's own tissues, offering doctors a way to overcome many of the ... be injected into recipient mice that were devoid of their own bone marrow and take over producing of blood and immune ... goal of producing bone marrow stem cells from a patient's own tissue. However, the work is still in its infancy and ...
Best Astronomy: Detecting Exoplanets
... what they're like. So as we saw earlier for planets in our own solar system, our initial attempts at characterizing them ... a number of planets. These are planets very unlike our own. They're what I like to refer to as baby Jupiter so ... and cooler planets, eventually imaging planets like our own. Chris - Can we also not, by looking at the light coming ...
Can people predict their own deaths?
... When should you wean your baby? Can people predict their own deaths? Am I allergic to exercise? What causes plantar ... Why are dreams so realistic? Can people predict their own deaths? Am I allergic to exercise? Can people predict their own deaths? ...
Why doesn't my own snoring wake me up?
Why doesn't my own snoring wake me up? What actually happens when we die? ... pleasure. Thank you. See you soon everyone! Why doesn't my own snoring wake me up? Why is there always room for dessert? Why doesn't my own snoring wake me up? ...
Hearts own stem cells heal infarcts
Stem cells harvested from heart attack victims' own hearts can be used to repair the injured organ, US ... technique. Stem cells harvested from heart attack victims' own hearts can be used to repair the injured organ, US doctors have shown for the first time. Hearts own stem cells heal infarcts ...
Can genes re-write their own code?
... we have earwax, what causes CIDP, can genes re-write their own code, do bananas in brown bags stay fresher longer, does ... compasses, why we have earwax, can genes re-write their own code and do bananas in brown bags stay fresher longer? Can genes re-write their own code? ...
How long could one survive eating yourself?
... To work out how long someone could survive by eating their own limbs, we need to make a number of assumptions. Firstly, ... live if somehow he had to live on amputations of his own body. I assume that piecemeal would too much of a shock . ... equipment, how long could you survive just eating your own severed limbs? How long could one survive eating yourself? ...
Did dinosaurs live in herds?
... Chris - "Did dinosaurs live in herds, or on their own?" - So, were they lonesome dinosaurs, or sociable ... I want to know if dinosaurs lived as a herd or on their own, and how do we know that? Did dinosaurs live in herds, or on their own? Did dinosaurs live in herds? ...
Meatballs made from mammoth
... only the instructions, they cannot make muscle on their own. So this gene sequence was added to sheep muscle stem ... Well, currently nobody knows. In Professor Wolvetang’s own words: “We haven’t seen this protein for thousands of ... until relatively recently, so it seems unlikely our own digestive tracts would have a problem with this menu ...
Amalia Thomas: Naked Internship
... And yes, you do eventually get used to hearing your own recorded voice played over and over again. Secondly, ... weeks of the programme, interns have to produce their own show. This involves choosing a topic for the show’s ... get used to reading papers on disciplines that were not my own - but it sure is a useful skill to learn! I am now much ...
Game theory: The prisoner's dilemma
... understand we’re going to do a little experiment of our own in the studio... Tom - Indeed we are Georgia - it’s ... both snitch, which is what you should do to maximise your own personal benefit here, your total time in jail is ... individual level, then you’re using it to maximise your own individual benefit. Because by always snitching you’re ...
Can Koshik the elephant talk?
... noises - elephant mouths are quite different from our own, aren't they? An elephant's mouth is very different from our own, and their vocal tract is much longer than ours. To ... even though their vocal apparatus is similar to our own, suggesting that it's not the equipment that an animal ...
Silent genes protect 'foreign' foetuses
... talking in incomprehensible slang, the feeling that your own child may be 'foreign' starts much younger than their ... The major problem with cancer is that it starts from our own cells, so it's hard for our immune system to recognise ... talking in incomprehensible slang, the feeling that your own child may be 'foreign' starts much younger than their ...
Diabetes stem cell trial offers hope of cure
A woman with type 1 diabetes has started producing her own insulin three months after receiving a transplant of ... a very good question and it's very original. So in our own lab we've been working on blood and there's another group ... thing about these cells is because they're the patient's own cells, they're not going to get rejected by the body ...
The search for the perfect planet
... with looking for the same signatures that we have in our own Earth; signatures of oxygen, ozone and other chemicals ... planets open a wide range of scientific questions on their own even before we get to a smaller, Earth-sized, cooler ... it each with masses and radii similar to those of our own. Amaury - They have a density which is not that different ...
London's burning: the Great Fire
... was reliant on small organisations, parishes to have their own firefighting equipment and that was part of the big ... happened in this fire, everybody was so busy saving their own property and running away from the fire, that they ... literally a perfect storm this, wasn't it? Did it make its own weather as well? Because when we've seen examples of fire ...
Distracting car passengers
... effects you can have, particularly if they are your own children. So in this study when we're talking about ... to be quite tricky to make laws about how distracting your own children are. Katie - Okay. So bottom line, what should ... - So this is slightly self-indulgent as this is one of our own papers. How do we study the human brain? And one of the ...
Decisions and the teenage brain
... and ultimately we become independent adults by forging our own way through our adolescence and making our own decisions and taking risks along the way. Of course it ... with their friends compared to when they're on their own. So if you think about the risks like smoking and ...
Infection-fighting Eggs
... protect their offspring by siphoning off some of their own antibodies and adding of them to the foetal circulation ... recognises the horse proteins as foreign and mounts its own, occasionally overzealous response. Human antibodies bind ... immune system takes at least five days to produce its own antibodies. For some infections this is too long. Certain ...
Wiring the Brain to Robotic Limbs
... research. We study monkeys and when monkeys move their own arms, we can record this activity and then correlate the activity to the monkey's own arm movement. Now on the last 10 or 15 years, what ... and instead of using or correlating that to the monkey's own movements, we use that to drive a robot arm and the ...
Artificial Chromosomes for Muscular Dystrophy
... able to replicate every time the cell replicate its own chromosomes. So it goes around every time that the cell ... So a better way of doing it would be to take the person's own stem cells, their own mesoangioblasts, and your chromosome to them and then put ...
Do we have free will or is life determined?
... as under external environmental stimuli. Hannah - My own view and this is just a personal view is that, our brains ... everything almost is pre-determined. That's just my own personal view. I don't know whether you've got anything ... about actually what they do and want to do with their own free will. Katie - I mean, I think you only need to look ...