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Imperial’s own Professor David Nutt, Head of the British Neuroscience Association, former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMA), and frenemy of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith after comparing horse riding dangers ...
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Coral reefs are one of the wonders of the marine world: vast underwater structures supporting a large and diverse ecosystem of marine species. It’s surprising then that until recently we knew very little about exactly ...
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Statistically, approximately one in every 100 of us will develop schizophrenia over the course of our lifetimes. Schizophrenia is one of the more commonly known mental disorders, but also one that remains somewhat of a ...
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“You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the ...
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One third of babies born in 2012 are expected to celebrate their 100th birthday, according to government statistics. Whilst ageing populations are a victory of development, health and social care ...
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Mathematicians from the US, Hungary and Turkey just might be one step closer towards the impossible. One of the greatest problems in number theory is determining whether the number of ...
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Causing tissue damage to grass by cutting it causes it to release volatile organic compounds, collectively known as green leaf volatiles (GLVs). One effect of GLV release is to attract predatory insects to defend the plant, though how effective they’d be against a lawnmower is another question.
Unfortunately for grass the resulting released GLVs also create the pleasant odour associated with ...
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You probably think humans invented communication networks. However according to recent research, plants might have got there first, communicating with each other through extensive underground fungal networks.
Most soil-based fungi grow ...
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