We spoke about what Lego bricks have to do with STEM education, and how Cathy plans on inspiring the kids in her school laboratory to be the engineers of the future.

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The city became a laboratory for school reform, with experimental programmes paid for by philanthropic organisations.

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Patrick McNamara, for example, is the head of the Evolutionary Neurobehaviour Laboratory at Boston University's School of Medicine.

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To find out more, researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine took some A. aegypti mosquitoes in the laboratory, and tempted them with a human arm covered in Deet.

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Gary Thorgaard, director of Washington State University's School of Biological Sciences and a co-author of the paper, says the experiments in his laboratory and others have shown it is possible to reverse the sex of trout embryos through the use of hormones.

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