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	Leading Edge brings you the latest news from the world of science. Geoff Watts celebrates discoveries as soon as they're being talked about - on the internet, in coffee rooms and bars; often before they're published in journals. And he gets to grips with not just the science, but with the controversies and conversation that surround it.


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0-9 听 100% Chemical Free 13th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems 167m crack at Tate Modern 1918 Influenza Pandemic Puzzle Solved 3D Maps of the Stars 3D Mummy 50th Anniversary of the Atomic Clock


A AAAS Abel Maths Prize 2006 Able Prize for maths, The Acoustics at the Royal Albert Hall AD 365 tsunami, The Age of the Sahara Desert, The Ageing and memory AI in art Air Travel And The Spread Of Flu Air-Traffic Control Alarming decline in West African chimpanzees Alcohol and Error-Prone Thinking Alcoholic tree shrews Alzheimer's Drug Trial American Scientists and the War on Terror Anamorphic Art Anatomy of plug-hole vortex, The Ancient athletics Ancient Egyptian Glassworks Ancient giants Animal attraction Animal research Ant Destruction Antarctic Fauna Antarctic science Antarctic sealife Antarctic tourism Antarctica Anti Microbial Peptides Antibodies for Melanoma Detection and Therapy Antidote to Anthrax Ants and Adhesive Architect's Secret Weapon, The Arctic aquatics Arctic fossil hunt Arctic Ice Melt Argo Project, The Art and the cosmos Arthur C Clarke Artificial Fossils Artificial Muscle Artists impressions As Marshes Warm鈥� As old as Methuselah Asteroid Shock Asthma cure? Astronauts and zero gravity ASTRONET At risk of an earthquake Atacama Desert 鈥� the Next Best Place to Mars Aura satellite launch Aurora Borealis, The Autism and Theory of Mind, The Architect's Secret Weapon Avian Flu Avian Flu Resistant Chicken Avoiding Angry Cavemen 听


B 听 Babies And Music Babies 'Tune in' to Faces Bach to the Future Bacteria Communicate Bat Lab Bat navigation Battle of the Hobbits, The Battle of the sexes Battlefield Archaeology Bear facts Beauty and the Brain Beds Bee Fossil Bees Beetle Combustion Beginnings of Bling, The Belief as pain relief? Bert the Humanoid Robot Better ways to Breathe? Big Bang recreated Big Rip, The Bigger Evolutionary Battle, A Binary Asteroids Biodiversity and food Bio-fuelled con Biological rhythms Biometrics Bionics and the brain Bioterror Bird Flu Bird-brained singing lessons Birdman of Bognor Birds behaving badly Birth order and IQ Black Hole Sings In B Flat Blind pitch Blue Brain Body Clock Genes, The Body clocks Bones of Contention Boss, The Box Jellyfish in Australia Botox for the brain Brain circuitry in drug addiction, The Brain pathway and obesity Brain's calorie counter, The Brain's Pacemaker, The Brass Instruments Breakthrough for Diabetic Transplants Breast cancer screen using radar British Bees And Wild Plants In Crisis British Coral Reefs Bubble bursts for Hubble Bubble Fusion Building for a hurricane Building The Biggest Telescopes On Earth Building the pyramids Butterfly talk


C Calculating Love Cancer Connections Can Elephants Run? Can We Blame it on our Genes? Can We Save Kyoto? Cappuccinos for connoisseurs Carbon capture Carbon Conundrum in the Tundra Carbon Nano Tubes as a drug delivery system Carbon Sequestion Carbon Unlocked From Soils Carnivores under threat Cat's whiskers, The Champagne supernova Champagne Supernova Chelsea Flower Show Chemical Formula For Wine, A Chewing Gum Flavour Childhood Memory: Karl Sabbagh Childhood Practice Makes Perfect Childhood Stress has long term effects on the Immune system Chimps Don't Give A Monkeys About Others China in Space China Lunar Programme China surges ahead with stem cell research Chinese Launch First Human Into Space Chromosome packing Circadian clock Classroom cacophony CLEVER Car, The Climate Change Climate change and our cities Climate Change and world food production Climate Change in the Planktonic World Cloning in Iran Clouds and Cosmic Rays Cod Cold-hearted fish Communicating Elephants Competition drives vocalization? Confusion Conquering the queues Conservation of jargon? Conservation Prize for First Royal Navy Submarine Conserving the Cutty Sark Consumer friendly GM Controlling Climate Change Coral Family Tree Shock Corals in danger Cracking Carbon Chains Cracks on the track Creative sleep Creepy crawly robots Crime and Pollen Grains Crop Boost from CO2 in doubt Crude oil from turkey guts CryoSat Space Launch Cultural evolution Cure for Blindness?, A 听


D Dali 鈥� science and surrealism Dark Energy Dark Sky Dartsboard deductions Darwinian architecture Darwin's finches Darwin's Sacred Cause Dating Human Cells Day at the races, A Death of Cyclamen, The Death of the Giants Decline of the Gyps Vulture in India, The Deep Impact Deep Impact Deep Impact follow up Deep Impact Sheds Light On Our Early Solar System Defining sweet music Dengue Mosquito traps Desert pools Detecting Explosives Diamond Mining Diamond Star Did Modern Birds Evolve from Cretaceous Water Birds Didgeridoo secrets revealed Digital imaging Dino-Bird Fossils Dinosaur Extinction Discovery of Ancient Protein & DNA In Same Fossil Could Help Scientists Look Further Back in Time Disease eradication DNA diversity Do not disturb the penguins Docile dinosaurs Doggy DNA Dolphins using sponges Doomsday Seed Vault in an Arctic Mountain Doubts about cause of CJD Dragonfly Suit Driverless driving? Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy 'Dumb-bell' molecules Dyslexia


E Ear protectors Earliest Americans, The Earth-like planets Earthquakes Earthquakes Strike Oil? Economic equality Ecstasy: The A to B of drugs Efficient electricity Egg and sperm race, The Ellen MacArthur's weatherman Embryonic Stem Cells for Medicine - Without Cloning Emotion Endangered parrots Endurance-enhancing drugs Energy Efficient Porters in Nepal Engineering the Human Heart Epigenetics ERNIE 鈥� the first computer celebrity Eruptions on the Red Planet European Space Research Evolution of childhood, The Evolution of echolocation, The Evolving fish stocks Exploring the magnetic North Pole Extinctions on earth Eye of the storm


F Face Recognition in Chimps Fact or science fiction? Fake hand False Memory Syndrome Fifty Years of Pheromones Figuring out language Filtering out foreign marine invaders First Fish Embryo First forests, The First Pictures of Exoplants First pictures of the Earth breathing Fish Big Brother Flaring Star About To Go Supernova Flash Rip Currents Flood caused Europe split Flood prediction Flooding Fly-eating robots Forensic Tattoos Forward looking logic of the Aymara language Fossil finds Fossil Fish Out Of Water Fossil forest Four-legged fish Fritz Haber: Should We Admire Or Despise Him? Frogs save themselves by mimicking the lesser of two evils Fuel Blocks From Thorn Bush Funding Science to escape the recession Future for stem cells, The Future of the orang-utan, The Future of Thinking?, The


G Galaxy Zoo Galileo Galilei鈥檚 Telescope Gamma Ray Bursters Gaze-direction Geeksta Rap Gene Flow Genes and addiction to Cocaine Genes and social networks, born to party Genes that make you eat more Genesis mission returns with a piece of the sun Genetic Tests Gestures help learning Getting around Getting into your genes Giant Watery Planet Giocannga And His Expanding Y Chromosome Glinting Lakes of Titan, The Global Climate Change Debate Global Swarming Global warming Global warming Global warming threatens reef Glow worms Glowing Molecular Sensors Gravitational Waves Greatest Scientific Mysteries of our Time, The Greener Gadgets Greenland Ice Sheets Grow your own climate Grumpy Google 听Guide to Darwinalia, A


H Hair today, jail tomorrow Half an eye for an eye Harmonious Theory Have your cake and eat it? Hayfever Health Risks of Low Blood Pressure, The Heart Disease Hibernating in Space Highest telescope being built in Chile Himalayan stargazing History of plate tectonics, A Hobbit's brain, The Hobby-Eberley Telescope Home Whistlers? Honey Bee Genome, The Honey, I cloned the cat Horse hydrotherapy House of Lords Science and Technology Committee House-building Robot How Bees See How Did the Grand Canyon Form? How do faces become familiar to us? How do we Decipher Sounds? How to cut cancer How to forage How to stop smoking How well do we know our own strength? Human ancestors Human cloning 鈥� a step closer? Human Cloning Breakthrough Human Evolution Human Genome Project bears fruit for age-related blindness Human origins in Ethiopia Human susceptibility to HIV Hump Back鈥檚 Fishy Wall of Sound, The Hums of horny fish, The Hunting the hosts of HIV Hydrogen biofuels


I I, Cockroach Ice Physics Iceland's Hydrogen Economy Imitating Elephants Improve your song? In praise of water Infant memory Infrasound Insect flight may help engineers construct micro air vehicles Inside the mind of paedophiles Insulin and old age Intelligent Cars International Space Station International Year of the Potato Interoceptive Awareness Invisibility Cloak I-robot Is Britain getting worse at Maths Is Mad Cow Disease Reversible? Is Man Naturally Aggressive? It鈥檚 freezing in Bristol


J Japanese chops Jigsaw puzzle Jurassic Park?


K Kidney stones and climate change Kissing Kyoto is coming


L Lake Bosumtwi Impact Crater Lake Vostok Language processes Larynx transplant Laughing computers Leaden Snows of Venus, The Learning brain, The Leonardo's Great Lady Life Deep Underground Life on Mars Life鈥檚 building blocks - from the stars Light from an Alien Planet Light of the First Stars Limits To Language Liquid iron alloy Live Earth Live Giant Squid Caught On Camera Location, location Logging in the Amazon Louis Leakey Lovell Telescope Lucy's baby? Lusi eruption


M Macaque map of life MagnetoEncephaloGraphy Maintaining a stance Making physics sexy Male Impulse Mammal family tree, A Map Mapping the Universe Marine Biodiversity Mario Livio Mars Mars mission update Martian Dust Devils Martian Environment Martian rocks Mary Rose, The Maths and bungee Maths and the visual arts Mechanochemistry Medical Futures Medicine at the gallop Meditation and the brain Melting Ice may cool the Planet Memory and predicting the future Memory and Smell Memory in the dock Mendel Exhibition Mesopotamia Mice Sing Micro-instruments Micro-needles Microscopic engineering Microscopy Midge thermometer Million Dollar Maths Mind out - I'm stressed Mind reading machine Mind Reading Machines Mineral-enriched foods Minimising earthquake damage Minimising Pain Mission To Mercury Mission to the Earth's core Mitochondrial DNA Mobile Diagnosis Model Moon Modelling SARS virus Molecular Imaging of Cancers Molecular Speed-Dating Monkey talk Monogamous voles Monster Meteorite More Metal, More Planets Mountain Gorillas Mouse Boosts Down's Syndrome Research Mouse Genome Sequenced Multi-Sensory Car Warning System Musical Emotion Courtesy of a Computer Musical proteins Mystic experience


N 听 Nanomanipulation Nanotechnology Nanotunes NASA and the Terrestrial Planet Finder NASA announce Hubble repair mission NASA future NASA row Neanderthal DNA Neanderthals And Humans Lived Side By Side Near Death Experience Neolithic diet Nerve repair Neuro-anatomy of the Moral Mind, The Neutrino New New African Ocean Studied In The Making New Antarctic Vehicle New approach to tackling TB, A New ideas for new stars New insights into DNA New lunar journey, A New molecule New Sign Language Reveals Role of Learning New Sudoku, The New Technique To Screen For Eye And Brain Disease New territory New-born babies Night Flights Worse for Global Warming No food from the sea by 2048? No to corn as a biofuel Noah's Flood Nobel Prize 2008 Nobel Prizes Nobel Prizes for Science 2008 Noise pollution North Korea鈥檚 nuclear test North London Drug Trials Not-so-mega-tsunamis Novel helmet sheds new light on premature infant brain Nuclear Power Nutcracker Chimpanzees Nutrigenomics


O Obesity Obesity gene Observing Earthquakes OCD Ocean pH Ocean Pollution Oldest Fossils?, The Optical clock Ores that came from Outer Space, The Origin of ancient clay tablets traced Origin of HIV, The Origins and Futures: Science in the United States Origins of the Back Bone pushed back further Orson Welles鈥� War of the Worlds 65 years on Out of Africa


P Pain and Mirrors Pain of Rejection, The Pandemic 'Flu Parasites Particle Acclerators prevent Wine Fraud Passports for Plants? Pedigree genetics Perpetual motion Personality of pooches Pest wars Philosophy of morals, The Phoebe fly-by Phoenix Mars Lander Phoenix on Mars Physics in crisis? Physiology of Fast Food, The Pictures in Maths Pig pong Planetary Billiards Plant detection Plant memory Plants from the arctic Plastic flowers Polar ponderings Pole to pole Pollutant testing Portable forensics Power Walking Preparing for the next tsunami Preventing Epidemics Promise of technology, The Prostate Cancer Test Pterosaur puzzle Pterosaurs


Q QinetiQ 1 Quantum cryptography Quantum Whistles


R Race and genetics Race of the Clones Radio telescopes Radioactive waste Raising the Dark Age Recognising faces Recreating Woolly Mammoths Red is the winner Red wine and health Red Wine is Good For You Redwood Trees Go High Tech Re-engineering Living Cells Refitting the Hubble Space telescope Regenerating Damaged Nerves Regenerating the Miami Blue Butterfly Remote Sensors That Can Detect Your Brain Waves and Heart Rhythms at a Distance Remote-Control Humans Research Restoring the Garden of Eden Revealing the secrets of stilton RHS Chelsea flower show Rise and fall of Hubble, The Robert Hooke Robo World Cup 2002 Robot intelligence Robot language teachers Robot Physiotherapists Robot Wars Robotic Cockroaches Robotic surgery Routes out of Africa Royal Society Summer Exhibition Royal Society Summer Exhibition Running away


S Safe zones in space Safety in numbers San Francisco Earthquake Anniversary Satellite Seals Saving the medieval walls of Rhodes from salt rot Saving the worlds rarest Wolves Scare Factor, The Sceptics in Science Science and the Recession Science Behind the UN Weapons Inspection in Iraq, The Science book prize Science comedy Science Friction Science of Harry Potter, The Science of smoking, The Science of theatre Science Week Poetry Scientific Biographies Scientists' responsibility as forecasters of doom SciTalk Sea Urchin Genome Secret of Ageing, The Secret of Ageing, The Secret to long and healthy life, A Secrets of sexual attraction, The Secrets of the Stradivari Selective memory Self-healing aeroplanes Sending Messages from the Ocean Floor Sex inequality in underwater worms Shark tagging Sharks in Antarctica Shedding light on lies Shrinking whale universe, The Silent Epidemic, The Silent Epidemic, The Silicon minds SKA - Square Kilometre Array Telescope Sleeping on it Sleight of hand Slime Mould Smart dust Smart Living Smells and slumbering aid memory Social control Solar system Song of the whale Sound of cells, The Sounds of Earth, The Sounds of Space South African Large Telescope South Asian Earthquake Space cycle Space Gym for Astronauts Space junk Space junk Space Medicine Space station justification Space Travel SpaceShipOne Spanish Flu Recreated Spectacular Finish For Space Probe Galileo Speech Science Sings a New Quantum Tune Sperm donation Spit test Sport Psychology Spot the ball State of the Union Address by President Bush Stem Cells Stem Cells and Bioengineering Stem Cells in Adult Mouse Testes Stem cells research Sticky tape X-rays Storm Chasing Street Science Stroke Student Astronauts Students uncover clues in mass grave Studying Emerging Diseases from Animals Submarine With Fins?, A Success in Science? Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Summer Weather 'Sun Rings' Super SMART-1 Super Sticky Bacterium Super strong squid beaks Sweet smell of success Swift Spots Death Throes Of Most Distant Star On Record Synaesthesia Syndrome X Synthetic Biology Synthetic life


T Talking to ET Tardis Crystal, The TB transmission Teeth the size of bananas Tennis Tennis and Turf Technology Tenth 'Planet' Larger than Pluto Termite Mounds Influence Architects Terror bird fossil Throttling Computer Viruses Thunderstorm Downbursts Tilt Test to Spot Autism Early Time for Toumai Tiny radios Tissue Engineering Tissue repair Titan鈥檚 Haze Titanic mission TMS Therapy for Stroke Patients Toad Fish In Space Tongan tsunami boulders Tongan tsunami boulders Tortoise reproduction Tour de France Towing Asteroids Tracking baseball players Tracking the walrus Tracking wild fires Training Surgeons with Virtual Touch Transplanting hearts Tribute to physicist Hans Bethe, A Tropical Biodiversity Trouble with physics, The Trust (02/02/2005) Trust (31/03/2005)


U 听 Ultrasound and bloodless surgery Understanding Cruelty Unpicking the nose Uranus discoveries 鈥� old news? Urban birds US Elections US Elections


V Venus Express Venus Express results Video games Virtual Car Virtual Handshake Virtual Reality Virtual reality cave Vision Voice recognition Voices above the din Volcano rising


W Walking Back To a Better Memory and Sharper Mind Walking Octopuses Watching stars explode Water on Mars Waterproof Paper Weighing up the kilogram West Nile Virus Wet weather Whales with Decompression Sickness What Are Clouds Made Of? What Future Online Shopping and Chip and Pin? What Is Dark Energy? What to do about whales What鈥檚 the Sun up to? What's the future for Science and TV Drama? When north becomes south Where next for NASA? White bright light White Lies Who should we trust? Whole new climate, A Why are imaginary voices mostly male Why Birds Sing鈥� Why do leaves turn red? Why Is Avian Flu So Lethal To Humans? Why Lady Lemurs Rule Widest Infra-Red View Of The Childhood Of The Universe Wildfires Fuel Global Warming Wine and climate change Wireless Energy Wobble of Millennium Bridge Solved Work that gene World鈥檚 Largest Rodent, The World's First Cancer Vaccine Worlds First Nuclear Family, The


X X Prize Cup


Y 听 Yacht Design Technology Young blood


Z Zebranet, The Zero Waste Zombie worms ZooBank










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