Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Types of twins

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Scientists are very interested in twins because it helps us identify the differences between genetic and environmental factors that influenc...
Thursday, 17 June 2021

Three Things I Don’t Know (Part III): Eyes

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So, I asked myself, what unanswered scientific questions do I have, and are there answers out there for me? I had a think. And I came up wi...
Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Three Things I Don’t Know (Part II): ‘Flu

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So, I asked myself, what unanswered scientific questions do I have, and are there answers out there for me? I had a think. And I came up wi...
Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Three Things I Don’t Know (Part I): Cold

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So, I asked myself, what unanswered scientific questions do I have, and are there answers out there for me? I had a think. And I came up wi...
Tuesday, 4 May 2021

Of quartz – A colourful problem

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Where does colour come from ? Pigments, we say: the ability of certain materials to absorb and reflect different colours of light as electro...
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Thursday, 22 April 2021

Going with the flow

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Inkanoack (CC0 Public Domain via Pixabay) Ice is often overlooked. A small fraction of water, hostaged on land – it’s even missed out on the...
Monday, 5 April 2021

A smart race

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Nanorobot swarms are the stuff of sci-fi films, but smart dust is being developed now. Johan Oomen. An assembly of microelectromechanical ...
Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Resistance

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In 1929, Alexander Fleming published his first observations of penicillin under a microscope. A sloppy technician, he’d returned from holida...