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Rare earths: where to find them?
... exactly it. You know, we could use the bacteria on their own potentially, but biology is a lot slower than chemistry is. The protein on its own, if we can make it and we can make it on its own, it works very, very quickly. So we're using the ...
Using balloons to see Dark Matter
... so Richard Massey from Durham University has developed his own approach. He is using a helium balloon to carry a ... bored waiting and said, "Wouldn't it be nice to have our own satellite, our own telescope in space?" unfortunately, in these times of ...
Who owns the Moon?
... international law, nation states are not permitted to own the moon. But there is an ambiguity because when the '67 ... or would they be just capable of exploiting it to their own benefit and sell things off the back of that which they ... at least private companies that went to the moon on their own initiative, if they were able to find anything worth ...
Preservation of Parasites
Almost every species has its own unique species of parasite - so with every extinction ... and by learning about parasites, we can learn about our own physiology and anatomy. We also know that parasites are ... of Natural History Almost every species studied has its own unique species of parasite – so with every extinction ...
Forgiving
... should forgive, a) for the good order of society, for our own spiritual and mental health, and also for the liberation ... for us to forgive and we can't do it just out of our own strength. Kitty - Forgive me, Gemma, but I'm about to say ... among us, um, is about Jesus himself embodying in his own life the forgiveness of God. So, for instance, at the ...
Researching synaesthesia
... example in different people or does each person have their own individual take on it? Duncan - People often have their own individual takes. I mean, there is some kind of themes ... patterns which emerge, but often, people will have their own individual experiences. Often members of the same family ...
Why do we get relief from crying?
... There wasn't much I could find on this. There was our very own study that talked about the excretion of cortisol through ... is sort of hypothesis. So, I've come up with one of my own and that's from an unlikely source as to why we might ... he talked about endorphins which are our sort of body's own pain killers and he talked about how the act of laughing ...
Trying to fix broken gadgets
Have you ever tried to fix a piece of technology that you own and come unstuck? Well that’s what happened to John ... Because in a lot of cases we buy these things, we think we own them, but actually we can't do anything with them that ... University of Cambridge When trying to mend something you own doesn't turn out to be easy... Trying to fix broken ...
Water discovered on a habitable planet
... how they did it… Ingo - We found a planet outside our own solar system which is rocky and it has an atmosphere ... now have a relatively small planet, quite similar to our own, with evidence of water. How does this shift the balance ... into the universe, that there are other worlds like our own out there? Ingo - Well, I mean that's the exciting bit, ...
Inclusive computing
... majority. For example, a mobile phone touchscreen, on its own, is not very helpful for people who are blind or low ... and confidence in being able to do things on their own. But because of the way software is being built right ... and they don't want to sit in a different room with their own separate technology. They want to code with their ...
Stopping star formation in its tracks
... behind how galaxies form and develop, including our own cosmic neighbourhood, the Milky Way. Dr. Marc Sarzi, who ... forming stars a long time ago, and other galaxies like our own that have continuously formed stars throughout its ... where stars have been forming continuously, like our own Sun, 5 billion years ago." The cosmic gales from black ...
Extreme life lurking underground
... life on other planets, the extreme conditions inside our own planet may provide clues as to how life like this might ... chemicals and the minerals in the elements to make their own food and survive these conditions. Chris - How did they ... going to take a lot of time. Microorganisms work at their own pace. Over time we can use it for small-scale ...
Remote Monitoring of Plants and Keeping an Eye on Salinity
... is to minimize the pests. I think every room has its own air control in and out, isolated. So that reduces the ... And if there's a power cut? Mark - We're generating our own power, which actually saves a lot of CO2 emission ... supplies, and so we can pipe in the gas, and generate our own electricity. We generate about 70% of our own ...
Can dead animals contaminate our food?
... on this. In most of the uk you can bury small pets in your own garden, but it has to be your own garden. It has to be your own land. You can't bury them in a local park and you can't ...
Exoplanet exploration
... Jackson through how and why she studies planets beyond our own solar system... Carole - My name is Carole Haswell. I'm ... being able to actually measure what planets outside our own solar system are made of or at least what their ... The Open University How we study planets beyond our own solar system... Exoplanet exploration ...
Is freeze-dried blood the future?
... if you could send soldiers to war with a packet of their own blood in their backpack? Ready to use at a moments ... best condition. Smith - And also, it's better to have your own blood isn't' it, if you can? Krishnaa - Absolutely! If ... the opportunity of wandering around with a bag of your own dry blood in your backpack, if anything were to happen to ...
Jupiter's aurora works in unearthly ways
... stare even further, inquiring if other planets have their own auroras and, if so, are they the same as Earth’s. One ... Mauk divulges that “the rotation of Jupiter within its own large magnetic field acts an electrical generator” and ... that Jupiter’s auroras actually look very similar to our own Northern lights, just bigger. So if future humans ever ...
Anxiety and loneliness
... the other side of the coin. Some people really like their own company. Is there anything that we understand about any ... component to that. See if you just prefer being on your own? Sarah - There's some interesting work that's been done ... This is something that you can do when you're on your own. And they were looking at the relationship between mind ...
How will we communicate with aliens?
... translate it into something. It wasn't like making up your own Rosetta Stone. I've devised algorithms that slide along ... around every other star. And if you think about just our own galaxy having at least 200 billion stars in it, we're ... you may be going towards a trillion planets in our own galaxy. That's just our galaxy. There's 125 billion in ...
What would happen if another galaxy collided with our own?
... that the Andromeda galaxy is going to collide with our own. In about 3 billion years, even before our sun has died, ... What would happen if another galaxy collided with our own? Would the spaces between the stars give us any chance of ... What would happen if another galaxy collided with our own? ...
How do chemists design new molecules?
... this and learn as it did it so you could work out from its own mistakes and what did and didn't work; how to make better ... Lee - Yeah. I was trying to be coy about selling my own stuff. But in my own lab... Chris - I'm not just planting that, that wasn't a ...
The Evasive Tactics of the Schistosome parasite
... inside a host species, as many of them do, comes with its own set of problems. Parasites have to find ways to avoid ... against in the worms. Then it takes in bits of your own blood and coats itself in your blood. Your body's immune ... good at not destroying yourself, and you tolerise to your own antigens when you're very, very small and so, the worms ...
Even insects have distinct personalities
... pet owner knows that their dog, cat or guinea pig has its own individual and distinct personality and now research has ... that form distinct personalities. 'Each individual has its own unique way of solving problems that's consistent over ... It's not just your pet cats and dogs that have their own personalities... Even insects have distinct personalities ...
Science adapting through history
... about nature, it was considered important to be on your own. There was a sense that by isolating yourself with ... for someone to say: "Oh well he or she works on their own." It's considered to be not just ungenerous, but it's ... be cheating. So now a scientist doesn't work on their own, and the very few people who do it are considered to be ...
Zero Energy Housing
... doing it much more efficiently because you've got your own local power station basically. Asif - As a matter of fact ... out? It's very much en vogue at the moment to have your own dwelling which is a detached cottage but that's got four ... energy. They produce all of what they require from their own site boundaries. Chris - But how? I know how much energy ...