The Conversation
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![[:eu]Can we ever find Jesus’s DNA? I met the scientists who are trying to find out[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/04/image-20170404-5736-13o25xa.jpg)
[:eu]Can we ever find Jesus’s DNA? I met the scientists who are trying to find out[:]
In 2010, Kasimir Popkonstantinov discovered what he believes are the bones of one of the most famous of all saints: John the Baptist. I was interested in what DNA analysis […]
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![[:eu]New Zealand quake study reveals ruptures can be much bigger than we thought possible[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/03/image-20170324-12132-smr45n.jpg)
[:eu]New Zealand quake study reveals ruptures can be much bigger than we thought possible[:]
No one could have expected what was to hit New Zealand in 2016. The country is certainly no stranger to being shaken up by moving tectonic plates. Yet on November […]
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![[:eu]Spinning sail technology is poised to bring back wind-powered ships[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/03/image-20170321-5391-af6wqs.jpg)
[:eu]Spinning sail technology is poised to bring back wind-powered ships[:]
Over 200 years after steamships first began crossing the ocean, wind power is finding its way back into seafaring. Global shipping firm Maersk is planning to fit spinning “rotor sails” […]
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![[:eu]How Artificial Intelligence and the robotic revolution will change the workplace of tomorrow[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/03/image-20170314-10735-1wbhnvc.jpg)
[:eu]How Artificial Intelligence and the robotic revolution will change the workplace of tomorrow[:]
What do we need to learn today about the jobs of tomorrow? Two things are clear. The robots and computers of the future will be based on a degree of […]
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![[:eu]Why gluten-free food is not the healthy option and could increase your risk of diabetes[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/03/image-20170308-24211-6vguam.jpg)
[:eu]Why gluten-free food is not the healthy option and could increase your risk of diabetes[:]
People with coeliac disease need to avoid gluten, but a gluten-free diet is otherwise best avoided. It raises the risk of type 2 diabetes.
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![[:eu]The next scientific breakthrough could come from the history books[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/03/image-20170301-5507-19sce3x.jpg)
[:eu]The next scientific breakthrough could come from the history books[:]
Treating the history of science as a linear story of progression doesn’t reflect wholly how ideas emerge and are adapted, forgotten, rediscovered or ignored. While we are happy with the […]
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![[:eu]If atoms are mostly empty space, why do objects look and feel solid?[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/02/image-20170131-3253-44rwcq.jpg)
[:eu]If atoms are mostly empty space, why do objects look and feel solid?[:]
The reason you feel things as solid is all to do with electrons.
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![[:eu]Why cancer rates are increasing disproportionately in women – and what we can do about it[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/02/image-20170207-4240-9f410k.jpg)
[:eu]Why cancer rates are increasing disproportionately in women – and what we can do about it[:]
The World Health Organisation has estimated that two fifths of the 14m cases of cancer that are diagnosed every year are preventable. The main preventable causes of cancer are diet, […]
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![[:eu]‘Seeing’ music or ‘tasting’ numbers? Here’s what we can learn from people with synaesthesia[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/02/image-20170125-23872-1ddid9i.jpg)
[:eu]‘Seeing’ music or ‘tasting’ numbers? Here’s what we can learn from people with synaesthesia[:]
Researchers are trying to train synaesthesia-like associations in people who don’t have the condition.