"Ilvy, see, y tak, the key thing about being asleep and being dreaming is that everythingis in your head. Can we use that to see if they can actually hear what's going on in the outside world and potentially respond to it? And well, i guess the obvious question is, were they able to respond to sort of stimuli from the outside world?" says Ilvy. "There are actually quite a lot of people who are quite inter lucy dreaming," he adds.
The surprising structure of protons, and a method for growing small intestines for transplantation.
In this episode:
00:45 Probing the proton’s interior
Although studied for decades, the internal structure of the proton is still throwing up surprises for physicists. This week, a team of researchers report an unexpected imbalance in the antimatter particles that make up the proton.
Short Bowel Syndrome is an often fatal condition that results from the removal of the small intestine. Treatment options are limited to transplantation, but donor intestines are hard to come by and can be rejected by the body. Now researchers may have developed a method to grow a replacement small intestine using stem cells and a small section of colon.