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		<title>Why are your veins blue?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nerys Shah from the Live Science Team at We the Curious uses infrared light to take a look underneath her skin to find out.]]></description>
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		<title>Jumping candle flame experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Royal Institution&#8217;s Science for Kids channel experiments with a jumping candle flame.]]></description>
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		<title>Measure the speed of light</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joanna Carpenter]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>The Sun: Five years in three minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joanna Carpenter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This amazing video of the sun from NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows five years of sun time in three minutes. The SDO scientists took a picture of the sun once every eight hours between June 2010 and 11 February 2015 and combined them to make the video. The different colours represent different wavelengths (types) of light). In some parts of the video the colours are blended and in some parts they are alone. Did you know the sun spins? I didn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a ball of immensely hot hydrogen and helium gas (those are types of air) and different parts spin at different rates. The middle of the sun is about 15 million degrees Celsius. That&#8217;s another way of saying very very very very hot. Fortunately it is about 150 million kilometres away from the Earth, so we don&#8217;t get burnt up. Even so, ultraviolet rays (invisible but powerful light) from the sun can give you sunburn.]]></description>
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		<title>Spinning spider silk</title>
		<link>http://www.juniorsciencereporter.org.uk/?p=420</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joanna Carpenter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, are working out how to make artificial spider silk. Spiders build their webs out of lightweight, incredibly tough, slightly stretchy spider silk. It is stronger than steel and tougher than kevlar, which is used to make puncture-proof bicycle inner tubes. The building blocks of the silk are particular types of a substance called protein. (Different kinds of proteins are found in your hair and in foods such as meat and eggs). Jan Rainey and his coworkers have worked out exactly which proteins make up the spider silk and how they are joined to each other. The difficult part, though, is spinning the proteins into long strands. The researchers are still working on that. Spiders make up to seven different types of silk, with slightly different properties. For instance, the toughest sort is used to wrap up prey caught in the spider&#8217;s web. Normal silk comes from silk threads spun by silk worms when they are making a cocoon. Groups of silk worms are fairly easy to look after and their cocoons can be unwound into lengths of silk thread. However, spiders are more difficult to look after and in groups may begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing crocodiles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joanna Carpenter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next time you&#8217;re enjoying a splashabout in water, think of crocodiles. Not to keep safe &#8211; there&#8217;s little danger you&#8217;ll see any in the UK &#8211; but because it turns out that crocodiles like a good splashabout just as much as we do. We normally think of crocodiles as quite serious, but Vladimir Dinet, a research assistant professor in psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA), has spent ten years watching crocodiles. He has seen them playing about, with each other, with a river otter and people, and with wooden balls. Professor Dinet says that a man who rescued a crocodile that had been shot in the head became close friends with the animal and they played together happily every day until the crocodile died 20 years later. But, just in case you spot a crocodile in the water, don&#8217;t wait to find out if he wants to play. You don&#8217;t want to find out too late he&#8217;s hungry.]]></description>
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		<title>How to make something invisible</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joanna Carpenter]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>Superdry</title>
		<link>http://www.juniorsciencereporter.org.uk/?p=330</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joanna Carpenter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the University of Rochester in the USA have treated metals so that they keep dry even when splashed with water. Chunlei Guo, professor of optics at the University of Rochester in the USA explains that these &#8216;super-hydrophobic&#8217; (water-hating) materials are useful, for example, for preventing ice from forming on aircraft wings, or to keep surfaces clean and dry and free of bacteria (germs). Most current hydrophobic materials rely on chemical coatings, but these can rub off. Professor Guo used lasers to make tiny patterns on the surface of the metals. The patterns make the metals repel water. As water bounces off the super-hydrophobic surfaces, it also collects dust particles and takes them along for the ride. To test this self-cleaning property, Professor Guo and his team took ordinary dust from a vacuum cleaner and dumped it onto the treated surface. Roughly half of the dust particles were removed with just three drops of water. It took only a dozen drops to leave the surface spotless. Better yet, it remains completely dry.]]></description>
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		<title>March of the moons</title>
		<link>http://www.juniorsciencereporter.org.uk/?p=355</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joanna Carpenter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The image on the left shows the Hubble observation at the beginning of the event. On the left is the moon Callisto and on the right, Io. The shadows from Europa, which cannot be seen in the image, Callisto, and Io are strung out from left to right. The image on the right shows the end of the event, approximately 42 minutes later. Europa has entered the frame at lower left with slower moving Callisto above and to the right of it. Meanwhile Io &#8212; which orbits significantly closer to Jupiter and so appears to move much more quickly &#8212; is approaching the eastern limb of the planet. While Callisto&#8217;s shadow seems hardly to have moved, Io&#8217;s has set over the planet&#8217;s eastern edge and Europa&#8217;s has risen further in the west. The movement of Jupiter&#8217;s moons has been a hot topic in the past, when scientist Galileo Galilei observed Jupiter through one of the very first telescopes in January 1610. Over a few nights he saw that Jupiter had four moons  and that they moved.  (Ganymede is not visible in the photos.) Galileo had trouble convincing other people of what he had seen, though. Until then, it was thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping cool with tiny beads</title>
		<link>http://www.juniorsciencereporter.org.uk/?p=354</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joanna Carpenter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers in the USA have found a simple way to remove carbon dioxide &#8211; a gas, or a special type of air &#8211; out of the air around us. Carbon dioxide is also known as CO2. Too much CO2 in the air is a bad thing because it traps heat from the sun and makes the earth hotter. The scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with colleagues at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have developed tiny beads that can absorb CO2 from the air. The shell of the beads lets carbon dioxide through, and inside there&#8217;s a liquid (sodium carbonate solution) that reacts with and absorbs CO2 to form sodium bicarbonate, which you&#8217;ve probably used to bake cakes and biscuits to make them fluffy. Heating the beads releases the CO2 so the beads can be used again. Humans are putting more and more CO2 into the air by burning fossil fuels, such as oil, coal, and gas for heating, generating electricity, driving and cooking. The CO2 can make weather problems, such as too little rain falling where farmers want to grow crops and too much falling where it&#8217;s not wanted and making floods. Read more: https://www.llnl.gov/news/microcapsules-capture-carbon-safely &#160;]]></description>
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