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Growing Human Hearts - 15.07.24
Growing a human heart from a single cell may seem ...
Growing a human heart from a single cell may seem like science fiction, but scientists at the Gladstone Institute at the University of California San Francisco, have taken a huge step forward, by producing the first three-dimensional, beating, human ...
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Volcanoes may have ended the Roman Empire - 15.07.17
Volcanic eruptions can be both beautiful and destructive at the ...
Volcanic eruptions can be both beautiful and destructive at the same time, but now scientists have found evidence they may have also been linked to plagues, and even the fall of the Roman Empire. When a volcano erupts, chemicals are released into th...
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Benefitting medically from marijuana - 15.07.15
Marijuana has a reputation for helping people who are in ...
Marijuana has a reputation for helping people who are in pain. But achieving the analgesic effect comes at a cost: users of the drug complain of memory loss and mood disturbances. Now, by identifying the pathway in the brain that is responsible for ...
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Why do our brains age? - 15.07.14
One of the key factors that makes the brain age ...
One of the key factors that makes the brain age has been uncovered by scientists in the US. Young mice infused with the blood of older animals developed a drop in their cognitive abilities. This is down to a chemical made by the immune system called ...
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Climate change is bad news for bees - 15.07.14
It's hard to miss the fact that bees are in ...
It's hard to miss the fact that bees are in trouble, with worrying news of colony collapse disorder devastating bee numbers, and concerns about the effects of pesticides on our most important pollinators. Now there's something else for our buzzing fr...
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RoboCabs: the key to curbing emissions? - 15.07.13
How does being driven around in a robotic taxi grab ...
How does being driven around in a robotic taxi grab you? Currently, cars contribute 13% to our greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. However, a new study has found that were we to switch to using a fleet of electrified, autonomous taxis - dubbed "roboc...
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Predicting depression and anxiety - 15.07.13
More than a quarter of people are affected by anxiety ...
More than a quarter of people are affected by anxiety or depression each year. But are some people more at risk than others? By studying groups of rhesus monkeys, Dr Ned Kalin from the University of Wisconsin in Madison found that individuals display...
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Men and women may feel pain differently - 15.07.04
It's an age-old debate, who feels more pain, men or ...
It's an age-old debate, who feels more pain, men or women? Scientists at McGill University have taken us one step closer to answering this question with a study using mice. Jeff Mogil and his team have discovered that the biological pathway that caus...
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What do fish and aircraft have in common? - 15.07.03
What do fish and aircraft have in common? Well, water ...
What do fish and aircraft have in common? Well, water and air are both fluids. And when fish move their tails and bodies from side to side, they push against the surrounding water and leave behind a mini whirlpool or vortex, which contains informatio...
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Just give me a second... - 15.06.30
Rejoice because at midnight tonight, a second will be added ...
Rejoice because at midnight tonight, a second will be added to clocks across the world. Seeing as you now have all of this extra time, here's Naked Scientist Tom Crawford with everything you need to know about the leap second......
