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Science In Action Episodes

  1. Do yeast cells hold the secret of Eternal Youth?

    Sirtuin proteins seem to affect ageing in widely different organisms

  2. Do tree lizards show evolution in action?

    The leg-length of lizards marooned on islands could hold a key to evolutionary processes

  3. Do Power Lines affect our Health?

    Power workers' occupational study shows increase in brain cancers but not leukemia

  4. Diverse Origins of Modern Man

    Early human evolution involved multiple hominid species in Asia as well as Europe

  5. Dispute over ancient Skull settled with a CAT scan

    Ancient skull was one of our earliest hominid ancestors

  6. Dispute over Amino Acids in Martian Meteorite

    New report claims amino acids in a Martian meteorite are of earthly origin

  7. Discovery of ancient 'Hobbit' Species in Indonesia

    Remains of a possible human-like "Hobbit" species found on island of Flores, Indonesia

  8. Dinosaurs were declining before an Asteroid hit

    Volcanic-induced climate changes may have been the main cause of dinosaur extinction

  9. Dinosaur Protein is related to a modern Chicken

    Protein found in a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil is related to that of the modern chicken

  10. Dinosaur Blood Vessels in fossil Bones

    Tyrannosaurus rex fossils that may contain the remains of soft tissue

  11. Digital Map of the Heavens

    First results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

  12. Digital Compass will show you the Way Home

    Computerised compass uses light to register magnetic readings and record them

  13. Did we all start from this Single Cell?

    Proteins show that choanoflagellates could be our closest single-cell ancestor

  14. Did this Dinosaur have Feathers, Frills or Bristles?

    The palaeontological jury is still out on whether dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had feathers

  15. Did the Ingredients of Life come from the Deep?

    Deep-sea hydrothermal vents could hold the chemical key to the origin of life

  16. Did the Building Blocks of Life arrive by Meteorite?

    New analysis of the Murchison meteorite and its amino-acids

  17. Did Siberian Volancoes cause prehistoric mass Extinction?

    Why did 90% of species die out at the end of the Permian period, 250 million years ago?

  18. Did Neanderthals overlap with modern Man?

    Neanderthal man survived thousands of years longer in Malta than previously thought

  19. Did Humans catch the Sars virus from Animals?

    Was the Sars virus passed to humans from animals in the recent epidemic?

  20. Did Deforestation make Burma's Cyclone worse?

    Could Burma's missing mangrove forests have saved lives in the recent cyclone?

  21. Did an Asteroid cause this Extintion Event?

    Did an asteroid cause the Permian-Triassic extinction event 250 million years ago?

  22. Did a smaller jaw Muscle mean a bigger Brain?

    Did early human ancestors develop bigger brains because of defective muscle gene?

  23. Destination Mercury

    Messenger is about to set off for Mercury, which it will orbit and observe for a year

  24. Designer Baby created to save his Sister

    How baby Adam Nash was created in Chicago to save his sister Molly's life

  25. Desert Locusts form deadly Swarms

    Why are locusts gathering in vast swarms across the Sahel region of Africa?

  26. Demond Morris's Naked Man

    What makes the human male so special and different?

  27. Delays Loom for Russian Mars 94 Project

    Mars 94's uncertain launch date reflects the funding crisis in the Russian space programme

  28. Deep Impact set for Comet Collision

    Nasa's Deep Impact moves into position for its controlled collision with comet Temple 1

  29. Decoding the Woolly Mammoth's DNA

    Sequences of woolly mammoth DNA have been reconstruced from ancient hair

  30. Deaf Nicaraguan Children invent their own Sign Language

    Deaf Nicaraguan children invented a sign language by themselves

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