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Neuroscientist and stand-up comic Sophie Scott explains the complexity and social importance of laughter.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Theodore Alexandrov is taking what he learned from working on the economy and applying it to the chemicals on our skin.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How electrodes placed directly in the brain are teaching us about learning.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Wouldn’t it be great to live without fear? Or would it? Research is showing just how important fear can be.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
For thousands of years, nature has produced brilliant visual effects. What is the physical principle behind it and how can we use it?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Watching what happens to the electrodes in a lithium-ion battery with neutron science.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
What makes a cell turn cancerous – and how does a cancer become infectious? In the second of two articles on transmissible cancers, Elizabeth Murchison explains what the genetic details tell us.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
After four years travelling around the globe, the schooner Tara has returned with a world’s worth of scientific results.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
From a scientific career to the theatre: how Ben Lillie tells the stories behind the science.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Exploring coloured chemistry using smartphones
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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Learning from laughter
Topics: Biology, Health
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The mathematician who became a biologist
Topics: Profiles
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How neuroscience is helping us to understand attention and memory
Topics: Biology
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An almost fearless brain
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
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Structural colour: peacocks, Romans and Robert Hooke
Topics: Physics
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Towards a better lithium-ion battery
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
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Infectious cancers: the DNA story
Topics: Biology, Health
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Tara: an ocean odyssey
Topics: Biology
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From smashing science to smashing stories
Topics: Profiles
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Smartphones in the lab: how deep is your blue?
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
