BBC Knowledge Asia Edition - December 2014
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The meeting starts at 10am, but Laura ducks in late. Brian sits at the far end of a gigantic slice of pine-carbon laminate, whil ...
Building on existing work in personalised medicine and cognitive enhancement, Laura’s nasal spray is an example of a ‘nootropic, ...
In use for over 7,000 years, hard currency won’t disappear overnight. But with half the money we spend now paid using electronic ...
LIFE IN 2054 ...
The EU wants to reduce aircraft CO 2 emissions by 75 per cent by 2050, but budget airlines and a booming Asian market are pushin ...
istory is littered with examples of discoveries made by accident, but as Louis Pasteur said more than a century ago, “Chance fav ...
IN A NUTSHELL From the chance discovery of a strange radiation being emitted in a laboratory to realising its unique propertie ...
HOW DO WE KNOW? images. That’s because the film in the shadow of the bones is less exposed to the radiation. Röntgen submitted h ...
photographic plate in the next few decades. The original Crookes tubes had not been designed for such a purpose, and the manufac ...
HOW DO WE KNOW? stomach, which he used to diagnose a child’s appendicitis. It is still used today to visualise blockages and tum ...
NEED TO KNOW These key terms will help you understand X-ray technology mechanically rotating the X-ray tube and the detector in ...
At dawn, above the swamps of Kasanka, Near Threatened straw-coloured fruit bats return to their roosts in huge numbers. Each nig ...
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ABOVE Bats first start arriving in mid-October. Research suggests this date is getting earlier and that the straw-coloured fruit ...
ABOVE Water berry Syzygium cordatum is one of the key food sources. The bats are responsible for 60 per cent of the seed dispers ...
ABOVE Sunlight illuminates the network of blood vessels in this straw-coloured fruit bat’s wings – they feed the muscles holding ...
There have been concerns that the fruit bats may be a factor in the transmission of the Ebola virus, but Frank Willems says no p ...
ABOVE Excited schoolchildren watch as the bats leave their roost at dusk on their way to nocturnal feeding areas. “While in the ...
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