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Chalk Talk DNA
DNA contains the genetic code used by all known living organisms. It also contains historical information, because it collects ""mistakes,"" called mutations, over time. DNA is a building block too--it has the ability to self-assemble...
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Developing Hardier, Weather-Resistant Crops
At first, the back room of plant physiologist Edgar Spalding's lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison might be mistaken for an alien space ship set straight out of a Hollywood movie. It's a room bathed in low-red light with camera...
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Glowing Squid
The Hawaiian bobtail squid and its resident bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, have a powerful and still somewhat mysterious symbiotic relationship. The luminescent bacteria populate a small pouch on the squid's underside called the light...
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Chalk Talk Mitochondria
This episode of Chalk Talk gives viewers a look inside the ""power plant"" of most complex cells. Mitochondria provide energy for cells to move, divide, and do all the things they need to do to function properly. Mitochondria are found...
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Butterflies And Bats Reveal Clues About Spread Of Infectious Disease
There's a most unusual gym in ecologist Sonia Altizer's lab at the University of Georgia in Athens. The athletes are monarch butterflies, and their workouts are carefully monitored to determine how parasites impact their flight...
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New nanotechnology to produce sustainable, clean water for developing nations
The world's population is projected to increase by 2-3 billion over the next 40 years. Already, more than three quarters of a billion people lack access to clean drinking water and 85 percent live in the driest areas of the planet. Those...
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Sea Turtles
Sea turtles, salmon, and sharks sometimes travel the width of the ocean to return to their ""breeding ground"" to reproduce. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Biologist Ken Lohmann at the University of North Carolina...
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Batty For Bats
With support from the National Science Foundation, some Brown University scientists are doing extensive research on bats, studying everything from their agility in flight to the elasticity of their bodies. Researching a bat's evolution,...
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Lice And Human Migration
Paleo-anthropologists believe Homo sapiens evolved in Africa 100 - 200 thousand years ago, and eventually moved out of Africa to populate the globe. But, how can researchers trace the specifics of that human migration? With support from...
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Spider Silk
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, humans have been using spider silk to dress wounds. Scientists now know spider webs not only have healing qualities, they can be stronger than steel! University of Wyoming Molecular Biologist Randy...
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NSF Science Now: Episode 37
In this week's episode, we examine tunable prosthetics, explore origami engineering and duck-billed dinosaurs, and discover how king crabs are migrating to the warming seas off the Antarctic Peninsula. Check it out!
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Food and fear: Modeling animal trade-offs shaped by landscape complexity
The Lemhi Valley is a high desert sagebrush steppe environment in eastern Idaho, along the border with Montana. It's a critical habitat and a gorgeous piece of intact sagebrush landscape, according to University of Idaho mammalian...
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Mount St. Helens
The area of Southern Washington State around the Mount St. Helens Volcano has been nearly devoid of life since the 1980 eruption - making it a biology lab like no other as scientists observe it springing back to life. The regenerating...
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Evolution In Action
Professor Lawrence Gilbert and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered a population of tropical butterflies that exemplify ""evolution in action,"" and a rare research opportunity. Gilbert says they may be...
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Social Insects
Michael Goodisman is digging up the dirt on yellow jackets' peculiar sex lives by studying their nests, behavior, and genetic make-up. With support from the National Science Foundation, he is getting a better understanding of what drives...
Press Association
We won't be coming back with more borrowing or taxes - Chancellor - full CBI session
The Chancellor told the CBI conference she would not be coming back with more borrowing or taxes. Asked if she could confirm there would be no more big tax rises on businesses, Rachel Reeves said: “I faced a problem, and I faced into it,...
Press Association
Firm's £500m investment in UK is show of confidence in Government - Chancellor
Chancellor Rachel Reeves described a £500 million private investment by a US firm into a UK research campus as a “real show of confidence in what this Government are doing to grow the economy”. The investment by San Francisco-based...
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Starmer and Streeting launch consultation on NHS future - in full
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting, with chief paramedic at London Ambulance Service Pauline Cranmer, meet NHS staff during a visit in east London. NHS workers “deserve a lot better” than what has happened...
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Starmer answers questions after delivering speech at Resolution Foundation conference
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer answers questions after delivering his speech at the Resolution Foundation conference. Sir Keir said reform was still needed when asked whether Labour would avoid cutting departmental budgets after the next...
Bloomberg
Biopharma's Tech Adoption Challenges
Life sciences-focused cloud startup Benchling has seen its business soar over the last few years, amid a renewed interest in biotech among investors. Benchling CEO Sajith Wickramasekara joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss the...
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Starmer welcomes UK return to EU Horizon science programme
Pool clip with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer following a visit to AstraZeneca in Macclesfield. He discusses the UK's re-entry to the Horizon programme, the manhunt for Daniel Khalife and the upcoming Tamworth by-election
Bloomberg
VC Spotlight: Generative AI and Healthcare
Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Vijay Pande, who oversees the firm's health and bio fund, joins Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow to discuss his AI strategy, and how generative AI can help safely engineer medicines at scale, support doctors and...
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A Tyrannosaurus Rex and a triceratops tangle in a forest: a 3D animation depicts the skeletal and muscular systems of a Triceratops.
A Tyrannosaurus Rex and a triceratops tangle in a forest: a 3D animation depicts the skeletal and muscular systems of a Triceratops.
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A Quetzalcoatlus flies above a valley: a 3D animation depicts the nervous system of a Quetzalcoatlus: a Quetzalcoatlus flies over a river valley.
A Quetzalcoatlus flies above a valley: a 3D animation depicts the nervous system of a Quetzalcoatlus: a Quetzalcoatlus flies over a river valley.