On this week’s Nature Podcast, Adam, Kerri, Charlotte and the gang look at climate change: Nicholas Stern tells how the recession could help curb global warming, Nature’s climate science editor is in the studio to talk about the latest research, and scientists imagine what the world would look like in the worst-case scenario of 1000ppm [...]
On this month’s Imperial Podcast Gareth Mitchell looks at: turning buses into portable air pollution detectors, making nuclear fission more efficient and quick genetic testing for drug suitability. Highlights:
01.34 Professor Robin Grimes on how to get more energy out of nuclear fuel and the pros and cons of the nuclear option
08.31 Headlines from around the [...]
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, [...]
Rather than spam the blog with every shiny thing that captures my attention (and I have a very short attention span), I think I’ll try collating them into a single post. So without further ado, here’s some of the stuff I’ve been looking at this week.
RNA transcription: in LEGO! An extremely cool animation on MIT [...]
09 Feb, 2009
By Mun-Keat Looi on the Wellcome Trust website.
Data from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC) have helped uncover ten new genes linked with heart disease.
The findings, revealed through three genome-wide association studies published in ‘Nature Genetics’, demonstrate the value of large-scale genomic studies in discovering leads that could aid the development of new [...]