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Episodes
448 episodes
Resilience, scepticism, and mRNA with Katalin Karikó
While we may associate Messenger RNA (mRNA for short) with the COVID-19 pandemic vaccination programme, its study in fact began over 60 years ago.Born in 1955 in rural Hungary, Katalin Karikó battled critics and scepticism for her resea...
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Personalised genetic insights: A revolution in papillary thyroid cancer
While the management of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is guided by recurrence risk assessment, current methods cannot accurately predict disease recurrence.Professor Oliver Bathe and his collaborators at the University of Calgary, Cana...
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Early Action Review: Preventing local outbreaks from becoming pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call for governments and their global stakeholders to reform the management processes of infectious disease outbreaks. Dr Stella Chungong and Dr Landry Ndriko Mayigane of the Health Security Preparedn...
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Fuzzy Logic: Opinion uncertainty and helping cities make better decisions
Almost every city in the modern world faces the difficult challenge of understanding its citizens’ opinions and turning them into meaningful decisions. Miloš Švaňa, a PhD student at Technical University of Ostrava, has decided to focus ...
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Breaking with heritage to revive human values
The actions of humans are typically influenced by societal norms and mainstream trends that are passed down from generation to generation, shaping our life choices and behavioural patterns. Jean-Paul Close, founder of the STIR Found...
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Do joint manipulation sounds make a difference in physical therapy outcomes?
Joint manipulation, applying a manipulation force to the spine to improve joint mobility and reduce pain, often comes with an audible pop. Patients and some practitioners often regard this audible sound as a sign of a successful treatment, but ...
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How can we ensure private communication?
We increasingly rely on electronic communications across society. You may have heard privacy protection methods for those messages, such as end-to-end encryption. However, can that protection be guaranteed against governments, industries or bad...
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Helium nanodroplets for material science research
Helium nanodroplets are fascinating objects that can be used as microscopic laboratories to form new types of nanomaterials. Researchers in COSY COST Action’s Working Group 4 , which recently celebrated its second anniversary...
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Confined Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles and Clusters
A nanoparticle is a tiny particle typically in the size range of one to one hundred nanometres. Nano-scale systems can exhibit unique quantum mechanical properties due to their size. The European Association for Cooperation in Sci...
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Advances in catastrophic slope failure forecasts
On most days, a weather forecast is a convenient answer to simple questions, like : do I need an umbrella? How windy will it be? For high stakes questions around landslide hazards, how do we deal with slope failure forecast? And ar...
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Regenerative medicine: Revolutionising osteoarthritis treatment
Osteoarthritis is the most common disease in the world, characterised by the progressive degeneration of cartilage in the joints.Dr Torbjörn Ogéus from the Stockholms led- & smärtspecialist clinic in Sweden, who is pioneering regene...
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Alternative fuels reduce harmful emissions during combustion
Transportation is a key part of our life, either travelling ourselves or in transporting goods. Fossil fuels are still the most widely applied fuel for transportation purposes, given that the vast majority of engines are traditional combustion ...
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Equine-assisted services help families impacted by domestic abuse
For millennia, humans and horses have enjoyed a special relationship. Recent research shows that working with horses can improve human mental health and wellbeing. Professor Ann Hemingway is part of a multidisciplinary team that has dem...
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RNA sequencing in Alzheimers investigations
We humans share over 99% of our DNA with each other. This means personalised therapies for diseases such as cancer or neurodegenerative conditions have to be tailored to the most minute differences between us - or even between our own cells.&nb...
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Just war and class conflict in Shakespeare’s ‘Henry V’
‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers’ – King Henry’s speech to rouse his troops before the Battle of Agincourt is one of the most famous in Shakespeare. But what does ‘Henry V’ tell us about theories of war in Elizabethan England?...
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How CEO Protection Shapes Corporate Debt
What happens when CEOs are shielded by employment and severance agreements? Researchers from Singapore Management University, University of Hong Kong, Boston College, and led by Dr. Xia Chen put forward this critical question. &nbs...
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Molecular motion in confined systems
As part of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, or COST Action, Working Group 2 of the COSY network focuses on developing efficient methods for describing the motion of molecules in confined systems. Their work covers fou...
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The potency puzzle: Understanding cannabis in the modern age
CBD has emerged as a non-psychoactive agent in cannabis, stimulating a boom of boutique cannabis products into the medicinal and adult use markets .The innovative CannaMetrix EC50 Array™ offers a solution to traditional chemical m...
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Revolutionizing Strategic Management: Embracing Sustainability and Spirituality
The global business landscape has undergone a profound transformation in recent decades. As sustainability, energy transition, and climate change have taken center stage, the need for a paradigm shift in strategic management has become increasi...
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Diagnosing Traumatic Brain Injury with a Handheld Device
Traumatic brain injury remains a major cause of disability and death worldwide, and timely detection of the injury could lead to early intervention and save lives.Professor Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer at the University of Birmingham, UK, ...
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Audible Barcodes – A Symphony of Data
Barcodes and QR codes have become ubiquitous sights in our current information age.Soorya Annadurai, an independent researcher and software engineer at Microsoft in the USA, has developed a solution for these situations: audible barcode...
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Why do secondary school admissions rules matter?
In an age of academies and free schools, secondary schools in England have never had more freedom over their admissions rules. But how do they decide who gets in and who doesn’t? And does it really matter?These are the issues explored in...
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Entrepreneurs in Conflict Zones
In conflict zones, businesses are widely seen as a positive force that promotes peace.Dr Jay Joseph at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and colleagues have studied micro and small enterprises, identifying their often contradi...
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