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Quentin Cooper reports on developments across the sciences. Each week scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects.
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"For me science isn't a subject, it's a perspective. There are fascinating scientific aspects to everything from ancient history to the latest gadgets, outer space to interior decorating; and each week on The Material World we try to reflect the excitement, ideas, uncertainties, collisions and collaborations as science continues its never-ending voyage into the unknown".
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Fake Blood
Human blood has a short shelf life and is costly to store and screen.
"What we are looking for is the powdered milk equivalent for blood,"听 says Prof Chris Cooper from Essex University.
He is part of a Europe-wide project, coordinated by Dr Ken Lowe from Nottingham University, exploring alternatives to human blood transfusions.
On this week's show, Quentin will be asking whether faking it could be听better than the real thing.听
Antimatter
Antimatter is like the mirror image of matter, it has an opposite charge and moves the other way.
According to the Big Bang theory, matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts. So floating around in space there should be anti-stars, anti-galaxies and anti-planets.
But there aren't. So where has all the antimatter gone?
This week Quentin is joined by Dr Fergus Wilson from the Rutherford Appleton Lab and Dr Dan Bowerman from Imperial College London. They work on the BaBar project which aims to answer this conundrum. |
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