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Science In Action Episodes

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    Spot the Solar Flares

    The Sun is producing massive solar flares causing magnetic storms

  2. Speaking with Machines

    Text-to-speech synthesisers and communicating with machines

  3. Space Walk to Work on the Hubble Space Telescope

    Astronauts' first space walk to install new instruments in Hubble is a success

  4. Space probe sent to check Einstein's Theory

    Gravity Probe B sent to check Einstein's theory 鈥� and will have the results in 18 months

  5. Space Missions Accomplished

    Nasa probes send reports back from a comet and an asteroid

  6. Space Mirrors that could Light up the Earth

    A 25-metre giant space mirror to reflect light from the Sun back to Earth

  7. South Africans call for more proof that HIV causes Aids

    Some South African scientists want more proof that HIV causes Aids

  8. Soil Microbes involved in Global Warming

    Global warming is speeding up the activity of soil microbes

  9. Soho Probe unlocks Secrets of the Sun

    Nasa's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory sends back first close-up views of the Sun

  10. Soap Companies in a Lather

    The big question about new low-temperature washing detergent: does it rot your knickers?

  11. So you want to be a Weapons Inspector

    What qualifications do weapons inspectors need?

  12. Small Feathered Dinosaur Found in China

    A bidpedal dinosaur with downy feathers on its back lived in China 135 million years ago

  13. Sleeping with the Light off is good for our Eyes

    Babies who sleep with the light on may be more likely to grow up to be near-sighted

  14. Skin Cancers caused by Sunshine

    Sunshine causes more cancers than any other agent in the world

  15. Simple Test Kit for Genital Herpes

    Simple blood test kit shows if you have been exposed to genital herpes infection

  16. Signs of Life on Mars?

    Does the Mars Express data really show us signs of life on the red planet?

  17. Signals from our Armpits

    Women's armpits give off pheronomes, odourless messages about their menstrual cycle

  18. Showing off on the Nano-Guitar

    Ten-micron-long guitar carved from crystaline silicon by an electron beam

  19. Should Museums return ancestral Human Remains?

    Requests for repatriation of human remains from scientific collections raise concerns

  20. Sharks' conventional Gender Roles

    Female sharks stay in home waters, while males roam the world's oceans

  21. Shaking Hands with an ancient Ancestor

    Three-million-year-old arm and hand bones are discovered in South Africa

  22. Sex and the False Spider Mite

    The strange sexless life cycle of the false spider mite crop pest

  23. Setting a Herpes Virus to attack a malignant Cancer

    Modified coldsore virus that selectively attacks malignant melanoma cells on the skin

  24. Seti Project harnesses Home Computers

    Millions of people join in search for extraterrestrial life

  25. Sequencing fragments of Neanderthal DNA

    Fragments of Neanderthal man's genome have been sequenced

  26. Seismologists study North Korean nuclear Test

    Seismologists turn detectives to study the North Korea underground nuclear test this week

  27. Seeing the oldest Stars in the Universe

    Traces of the oldest stars in the Universe have been detected by the Spitzer telescope

  28. Seeing the Light before a Supernova

    Scientists see the burst of ultra-violet light that a star gives off before a supernova

  29. Secrets of the Y Chromosome

    New map of the Y chromosome shows it carries more genes than expected

  30. Secrets of the Dinosaur Heart

    This Thescelosaurus heart suggests at least some dinosaurs were warm-blooded

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