This issue of Catalyst includes the following articles:

Molecules From the Past

This article shows how analysing molecular residues in ancient objects helps to reveal how people and animals once lived.

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Money, Mistakes and the Birth of a Science 

Looking at how the laying of telegraph cables across the ocean bed has led to the science of oceanography.

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Phytoplasmas - Friend or Foe?

Phytoplasmas are micro-organisms that affect crop plants, modifying their growth. Botanists are seeking to counter their effects.

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Food Waste Recycling - Power from Potato Peelings

This article looks at how food waste can be treated by anaerobic digestion to produce methane and fertiliser.

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Diving Deep

Many mammal species can dive to great depths. This article explores how their bodies are adapted to cope with the great pressures involved.

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The Price of Rice

This article looks at how genetics has increased yields of rice, a staple food for billions of people.

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Fighting Fit

This Catalyst article looks at how exercise affects our immunity and susceptibility to infection. Recent research indicates that a person's level of...

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"I Am the Greatest"

 This article discusses the science behind motivation in sport. Psychologists are developing theories to explain how athletes' thinking can help...

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Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies or Weetabix

This article looks at how scientists can use material recovered from archaeological sites to see how crops have been introduced to...

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Speak to Me, Lichen

In this article, students at La Sainte Union Catholic School in North London investigate the link between lichen species and air pollution around...

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Investigating poisoning

This article looks at criminal poisoning and shows how forensic science is used to solve serious murder cases.

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How the Leopard Gets Its Spots

This article looks at Turing mechanisms as a way of explaining how patterns such as spots and stripes develop as an animal grows.

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The World of Parasitic Plants

This article looks at types of parasitic plants and how they derive their nutrients from the root systems of other plants.

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The Most Accurate Thermometer in the World

This article looks at how a highly accurate thermometer measures temperatures by finding the speed of sound in a gas.

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Palaeontology Goes Hi-Tech

Scientists use radiation from across the electromagnetic spectrum to learn more about a fossil dinosaur.

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