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Saiga die-off

Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland on the mysterious death of about half the world’s population of saiga antelopes in two weeks. (Extract 3 of 4 from the I...
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Prize pitch

The Institute of Chemical Biology’s Dragon’s Den-style competition gave doctoral students a chance to win £20,000 by pitching their projects to a team...
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Finding out how bacteria swim

Gareth Mitchell looks down the microsope at the 2014 Imperial Festival to find what enables bacteria to swim. (Podcast 21 May, extract 4/4)
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Julie McCann: Smart dust

Professor Julie McCann takes her inspiration from nature for writing algorithms that allow distributed wireless networks to become self-organising, ad...
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Vesicle traffic

The winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine helped us understand how materials are packaged and transported in cells, as Dr Anita Ha...
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