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NASA Aims for the Moon and beyond

NASA's low-cost Discovery programme aims at the Moon, Venus and Mars

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'Fat' Gene commands fat Fee

American biotechnology company pays $20 million for the patent of the ob 'fat' gene

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Science Week in Britain looks to the Future

Celebrating Science Week in Britain and predictions for future scienctific discoveries

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Opening our Eyes to Genetic Engineering

How do genetic engineering discoveries benifit us?

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New Results for Aids Patient Zero

Controversy over new pathology results for Aids Patient Zero

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Is there a Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy?

Discovering whether there is a black hole at the centre of our galaxy

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Benign Bacterial Mats in the Pacific Ocean

The chemical secret of the Thioploca bacteria mats along the south American Pacific coast

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Lasting Trauma of Witnesses to War

What we can learn about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from WW2 veterans

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Is this the Asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs?

Hidden crater in Mexico might hold the secret of the dinosaur's extinction

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Ebola Fever Outbreak in Zaire

How infectious is the ebola virus and where did it come from?

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Prehistoric Bacteria Brought back to Life

Scientist extracts 40 million-year-old spores from the stomach of a bee in amber

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Neanderthal Child had bigger Brain than modern Toddler

Computer reconstruction made with rare fragments of a Neanderthal child's skull

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Mobile Phones could go Global by Satellite

Attempts to patent a satellite orbit in the battle for global mobile phone coverage

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How Volcanic Eruptions create Ice

Aircraft at risk from ice as well as rock particles when volcanoes erupt

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Physicists observe a new State of Matter

Physicists observe the Bose-Einstein condensate, a new state of matter

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Volcanoes change Shape 'like a Souffl茅'

Satellites can measure how a volcano deflates like a souffl茅 when it erupts

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Hearing in Colour at the Royal Society Science Show

Demonstrating brain activity in synathesia and flexible chocolate; plus sociable mole rats

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Americans and Russians get together in Space

American space shuttle Atlantis docks with Russian shuttle Mir

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Art and Science meet in Map-making

Mapping our changing world view through 3,000 years in a new cartography exhibition

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Human Tissue Culture Centre opens

Growing human cells offers many diverse new research and treatment possibilities

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The Effects of the Ozone Hole

Hole in the ozone layer getting 'deeper', report scientists in the Antarctic

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Warning of Global Water Shortage

Water shortages predicted as wasteful users worldwide compete for supplies

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Bipedal Human Ancestor found in Kenya

Scientists find bones of an ancient human bipedal ancestor at Lake Turkana, Kenya

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Enzyme that makes Cancer Cells 'immortal'

How cancer cells keep reproducing because their genes are protected by telomerase enzyme

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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?

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British Association Festival of Science

Events at the the sports-focused BAAS festival of science in Newcastle

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Microbes from the oily Deep

Sulphur-cycle bacteria have been found living in oil wells 1,700 metres below ground

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A Combination Drug Therapy for Aids

Encouraging results in a new trial of combination drug treatment for Aids

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Has Hawking changed his Mind about Time Travel?

Stephen Hawking says laws of physics don't exclude the possibility of time travel

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Multiple Winners for three Nobel Prizes

Nobel prize-winners for chemistry, physics and medicine announced

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