3 September: The galaxy that eats others for breakfast, the oldest hand-axes in Europe, engineering our climate, and predicting 'tipping points'.
Nature: 27 August 2009
26 Aug 2009 @ 02:00 am
27 August: Gene therapy for mitochondrial mutations, a 'hot jupiter' spinning perilously close to its sun, science-themed songs for kids, toxicity testing, and a chance to win tickets to a private screening of the film Creation.
Nature: 20 August 2009
19 Aug 2009 @ 02:00 am
20 August: The search for gravity waves, rice 'snorkel' genes, the world's most famous fossil site, and the dark side of antioxidants.
Nature Insight: Metalloproteins
12 Aug 2009 @ 02:00 am
Proteins that use metals to help them function are called metalloproteins. Join us as we learn how they choose their metal partners, what they use these metals for, and how studying them can help us explain everything from human diseases to the origin of life.
Nature: 13 August 2009
12 Aug 2009 @ 02:00 am
13 August: Glaciers, tectonic plates and mountain height, a mathematical packing problem solved, a history of hurricanes and the news round-up.
Nature: 6 August 2009
5 Aug 2009 @ 02:00 am
6 August: Burgeoning birth rates, the origin of cosmic rays, better models of pandemics and the economy, and jumping genes in the brain.
Nature: 30 July 2009
29 Jul 2009 @ 02:00 am
30 July: Mice made from induced stem cells, the early Earth's disordered insides, jellyfish stirring up the oceans, and Saturn's spinning speed.
Nature: 23 July 2009
22 Jul 2009 @ 02:00 am
23 July: Wild chimps show signs of AIDS-like disease, super-tiny lenses go beyond the limits of light, and we take another look at the light patterns in the Northern and Southern lights.
Nature: 16 July 2009
15 Jul 2009 @ 02:00 am
16 July: The Apollo moon landing, a new branch of archaeology for primates, where the contents of our asteroid belt came from, and two genomes of the parasite that causes schistosomiasis.
Nature: 9 July 2009
8 Jul 2009 @ 02:00 am
9 July: An anti-ageing drug for mammals, when and how our planet turned green, 20 years since the discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene, and scientists spot the most distant supernovae yet.
