If you haven’t already seen it, here’s UC Berkeley’s viral-hit, The Nano Song. It went big about a month ago and is still brilliant. Explanation of how it came about, and a link to an Mp3 download here. Nanotechnology explained through song. With puppets.
More recently, this week New York Times Deputy Science Editor, Barbara Strauch, [...]
By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
A hormone could offer hope as a new treatment for infertility, according to research part funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Researchers from Imperial College London found that the hormone kisspeptin significantly raised the levels of key sex hormones in infertile women. This could now form the basis of a [...]
Science Punk has a good post on a rather gory accident with magnets. As the post notes, super magnets certainly are not toys. The money shot is at the three minute mark; scary what can happen if you just slip a bit. Read Science Punk’s post for some X-rays and a gory photo of the [...]
12 Mar, 2009
Posted by: ayasawada In: News
By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
A study of one million Swedish men has revealed a strong link between cognitive ability and the risk of death, suggesting that government initiatives to increase education opportunities may also have health benefits.
Dr David Batty, a Wellcome Trust research fellow at the MRC Social and Public Health [...]
Here’s the March edition of the IC podcast, presented by Gareth Mitchell.
Highlights:
01.42 Professor Paul Dolan on why happiness is a serious subject
09.51 Headlines from around the College
12.11 Professor Murray Shanahan on cognitive robotics
20.21 Dr Julian Asher on synaesthesia and the genetics of obesity
March Imperial Podcast