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Unravelling the mysteries of chromsomes (June 16 2010)

Dr Sergei Grigoryev

, Milton S. Hersey Medical Center, Penn State University

The DNA in our cells is tightly packed into structures called chromosomes. The role of the physical structure of chromosomes in diseases and genetics is being explored thanks to recent advances in technology…

Powering the Planet: The Challenge for Science in the 21st Century (April 15 2009)

Professor Daniel G. Nocera, Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

The supply of secure, clean, sustainable energy is arguably the most important scientific and technical challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. Rising living standards of a growing world population…

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

It Ain’t Necessarily So … Bro (November 02 2006)

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Juilius Sumner Miller Fellow, University of Sydney

Dr Karl explodes our most common ‘mythconceptions’, including whether the daddy long legs is really the most venomous spider in the world and whether a frog will really sit in a pot of gently…