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Rising tide of Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes is a global "disease of affluence"

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Digital Map of the Heavens

First results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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Could there be Life on Europa?

Looking for extra-terrestrial life on Europa

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How old is Malaria?

Working out how long malaria has been around in humans

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Sex and the False Spider Mite

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

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How marine Ecosystems collapse

Tracing marine ecosystem collapses back hundreds and thousands of years

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Sharks' conventional Gender Roles

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

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The Temperature is Rising

Global warming could be about 3ºC over the next 100 years

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A Cloud over the Future of Cloning?

Scientists are concerned by abnormalities in cloned mice

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A head-count for the next Century

What does a new world population prediction mean for the planet?

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The Super-healing Mouse

Lab mouse that can re-grow damaged heart tissue without drugs

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Another Planet only 50 Light Years away

Another planet orbiting the star 47 Ursae Majoris is only 50 light years away

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Earthquake warning for the Himalayan region

Warning of giant earthquakes for the Himalayan region

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The Secret of Long Life?

Have scientists really identified genes associated with long life?

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Science Festival comes to Glasgow

Report from the annual science festival at Glasgow University

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The collapse of the Twin Towers

It was fire from the aircraft impacts that caused the World Trade Center to collapse

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America Mourns Victims of September 11

America mourns the thousands who died in the September 11 attacks

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Space Missions Accomplished

Nasa probes send reports back from a comet and an asteroid

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The Geology of Super-cyclones

What rocks tell us about super-cyclones

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All at sea over CO2 Storage

"Burying" carbon dioxide on the sea floor to slow down global warming is a bad idea

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Dan Goldin bids farewell to Nasa

Dan Goldin, head of Nasa, has resigned

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Will we Swallow 'Living Pills'?

Nanotechnology is being used to make "living pills" to treat diabetes

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Why Drug Tests should be Colour Blind

Grouping subjects by genetic markers in drug trials is more accurate than skin colour

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Will the Patriot Act be bad for American science?

Can America protect against bio-terrorism without harming science?

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Will Bushmen get a share of Slimming Drug Profits?

South African Bushmen in negotiations to protect their ownership of indigenous knowledge

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Study finds Cloned Cows to be Normal

Study shows cloned cattled healthy and normal after four years

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Human Cloning Report under Scrutiny

Debate over cloned human embryo article

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What does it take to Win a Nobel Prize?

How does the Nobel Prize committee select the winners from so many outstanding candidates?

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Keeping up with the Clones

Is cloning technology moving too fast for legislation to keep up?

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Answers to Listeners' Questions

Studio guests help answer your science questions

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