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Tardigrades to the Moon!

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 21, 2022 12:29 PM

Superworm and fake human meat

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 25, 2022 6:11 PM

Vaccination explanation

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 8, 2021 4:03 PM

The Polymer Age

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Posted by Ian Woolf on March 8, 2021 9:37 PM

In vitro meat ventriloquism

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 7, 2020 4:59 PM

Face recognition antagonism

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 25, 2020 12:07 PM

Climate change health

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 6, 2020 9:52 PM

Nano-tech train sets

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Posted by Ian Woolf on March 11, 2020 4:53 PM

Electric cars, TB, and mutated whooping cough

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Posted by Ian Woolf on February 10, 2020 4:08 PM

DNA origami kills cancer

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 27, 2019 5:50 PM

Robots Recycle Rags

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 6, 2019 10:59 PM

Nano Molecular train sets

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Posted by Ian Woolf on February 25, 2019 11:37 AM

Support

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Posted by Ian Woolf on February 14, 2018 12:10 AM

The Forgetting Machine - part 1

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 22, 2018 4:09 PM

The story of Ruby Payne-Scott part 2

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 25, 2017 7:53 PM

The story of Ruby Payne-Scott part 1

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 18, 2017 12:21 PM

Transport implant

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 10, 2017 1:14 PM

3D printed Jewellery baldness cure

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 14, 2015 11:54 AM

Black holes, worm holes and time machines

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 7, 2015 12:59 PM

Urthecast and space lasers

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 29, 2015 2:33 PM

Synthetic Biology De-extinction

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 27, 2015 1:06 PM

Bitcoin rules soliton waves

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 5, 2015 12:07 PM

Primate RNA and pocket communicators

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 17, 2014 10:58 AM

Makers of every generation

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 15, 2014 3:09 PM

Semaphore and legal Biohacking

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 28, 2014 11:48 AM

Biohacking Citizen Science

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 2, 2014 1:42 PM

Mapping Robots and printed houses

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 28, 2014 10:37 PM

Building Biosensors to detect disease

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 27, 2014 1:12 PM

Healing corneas and building robots

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 9, 2013 3:22 PM

Chocolate robots

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 3, 2013 12:22 PM

Microfactories and synthetic food

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 27, 2013 9:59 AM

Steve Mann, qBits, and goodbye 2SER

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 22, 2013 4:41 PM

Reindeer and Mistletoe science

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 24, 2012 7:52 PM

Teleportation and Quack Physics!

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Synthetic organisms and cloud-busting

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 12, 2011 6:33 PM

I love that word, Meltdown

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 25, 2011 2:16 PM

Addict detention and child enhancement

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 22, 2010 1:15 PM

Designer thinking and coral reefs 101

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 27, 2009 6:19 PM

Designer Genes, Musical Intelligence and Tornadoes

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 11, 2009 6:30 PM

'Popular and polarising science'

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Posted by Diffusion on May 22, 2008 12:09 AM

Sibling Saviours

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 6, 2004 9:34 PM