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Humans have a number of organs which we don't actually need. Tonsils and appendices are routinely removed, but you can also live reasonably well without your spleen, gall bladder, a kidney, or even your stomach.
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Hello. Welcome to Future Morph. This website is designed to show you just some of the amazing and unexpected places that studying science, technology, engineering and maths can take you. Think of this as your basecamp, your launchpad, the door is open come on in and explore.
Science and maths have global impact. Explore the stories placed on hotspots around the globe to find out where you future could lead you. Link
I’m currently finishing the second year of my PhD at Manchester University looking at respiratory disease…basically studying mucus for a living and how the properties of that change. Link
Discover some of the exciting careers you can do by studying Science and Maths, from designing snowboards to creating the latest video game. What are you waiting for? Link
How does being a theatre technician involve science? This video job profile will show you. Link
Who is sending messages from the future? Check out these Postcards from the Future Link
If you like an adventure or an exotic location you might have a role to play in protecting the animals that share our planet. There's lots to tackle... Link
The future is up for grabs, where might you fit? Explore jobs and careers with My Future Finder Link
What will you be in the future? Explore how the things you enjoy link to jobs involving science and maths with this fun quiz. Link
Team up with your classmates and teachers to film and edit a short careers film for this competition and see it featured on Future Morph. Link
If you met a scientist what would you ask them? Find out what these young people wanted to know about their jobs... Link
A set of Future Morph teaching resources, including video clips, to be used to contextualise science teaching. Includes material from the "Science within Work" booklet and CDrom. Link
Are you being watched? And who is watching you a person or a computer? Surveillance gets sophisticated. Link
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1. Blowing in the wind: Cassini helps with dune whodunit on Saturn's moon Titan
The answer to the mystery of dune patterns on Saturn's moon Titan did turn out to be blowing in the wind. It just wasn't from the direction many scientists expected.
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2. New cellular 'armor' developed to prevent infection by AIDS virus
Researchers have developed a novel method of attack against the AIDS virus that involves creating a prevention system, i.e. an "armor" in the cells that are likely to be infected and thus impede the virus from accessing them and starting to act on their immunological system.
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3. Decontaminating dangerous drywall
A nanomaterial originally developed to fight toxic waste is now helping reduce debilitating fumes in homes with corrosive drywall.
