Three science updates: Starfish light-guiding arms, cellular pathogen response, and first black hole wind observation
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Summary
Science commentator Laurie Winkless discusses three recent scientific studies: (1) research on how starfish arms can guide and focus light, (2) a Cambridge study on how cells quickly respond to pathogens by forming a membrane around them and sending them to the cell's "recycling bin," and (3) astrophysicists' first observation of wind created by a black hole, based on five years of data compilation and analysis.
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· 3 pulledA team of researchers in Cambridge have looked at how cells can quickly respond to pathogens in the body by forming a membrane around it and sending it to the cell's 'recycling bin'
Astrophysicists have, for the first time, observed some wind created by a black hole, following five years of compiling and analysing data
Science commentator Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn with three new studies, including one into how starfish arms can guide and focus light
Science commentator Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn with three new studies, including one into how starfish arms can guide and focus light. A team of researchers in Cambridge have looked at how cells can quickly respond to pathogens in the body by formin
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