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The race to identify the Sars Virus

The virus detectives who are on the case of the SARS coronavirus

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Has Genetics really revolutionised Agriculture and Medicine yet?

Genetic engineering – improving lives or making companies richer?

• 22 mins

What are the Consequences of making Eggs?

Making eggs from stem cells could raise ethical and legal problems

• 22 mins

Understanding the Mosquito's Defences

Gene for insecticide resistance in mosquitos identified

• 22 mins

Overfishing could soon cause Extinctions

Only 10% of world's large fish stocks remain, warns new report

• 22 mins

How Video Games can be Good for You

Improve your multi-tasking and visual skills with video games

• 22 mins

Should Museums return ancestral Human Remains?

Requests for repatriation of human remains from scientific collections raise concerns

• 22 mins

Flight or Fight?

How the brain's amygdala helps us recognise danger and respond

• 22 mins

Secrets of the Y Chromosome

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

• 22 mins

'Child Mortality should be a Global Concern'

How and why 10 million children die unnecessarily each year

• 22 mins

New Recipe for Cleaner Fuel

Beds of recyclable zeolite crystals can be used to eliminate sulphur compounds from fuels

• 22 mins

Did we all start from this Single Cell?

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

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The role of Frog Eggs in Stem Cell Research

Frog eggs could help scientists facing restrictions on use of human embryonic stem cells

• 22 mins

Is the Ozone Layer on the mend?

First evidence that the ozone layer might be healing

• 22 mins

Astronomers ignite Climate Change Controversy

Paper on global warming causes academic and political controversy

• 22 mins

The state of Coral Reefs

Study of 40,000 years of coral reefs connects their decline to human intervention

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Ancient Chinese Drug used in Battle against Malaria

How do artemisinins, known to Chinese medicine, act against malaria?

• 22 mins

The Red Planet seen from Earth

Scientists are taking advantage of how close Mars is now to Earth

• 22 mins

Mystery of the first Americans

Why the first people to reach the Americas weren't ancestors of today's native Americans

• 22 mins

How Babies recognise Language

Babies can recognise language very early, using the left hemisphere of their brain

• 22 mins

Why the Month you were born Matters

How could the month of your birth affect the rest of your life?

• 22 mins

Why more CO2 means more acidic Oceans

How oceans are becoming more acidic as they absorb increased quantities of man-made CO2

• 22 mins

Is there Liquid on Titan?

Can radio telescopes "see" lakes of liquid hydrocarbons on Saturn's moon Titan?

• 22 mins

First Chinese Astronaut

China's first manned space flight, Shenzhou 5, is a success

• 22 mins

Concorde's Last Flight

Last flight of Concorde, the supersonic passenger aircraft

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Spot the Solar Flares

The Sun is producing massive solar flares causing magnetic storms

• 22 mins

Increasing Longevity – in Worms

Scientists increase longevity of worms by blocking hormones that cause ageing

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Seach for Planets cancelled

Scientists protest at ESA's cancellation of the Eddington mission to look for new planets

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New Mystery Meson upsets Particle Theorists

Discovery of a new mystery meson subatomic particle

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Chinese first to approve Gene Therapy Treatment

Chinese are first to approve gene therapy treatment for patients outside clinical trials

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