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	Quentin Cooper reports on developments across the sciences. Each week scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects.


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0-9 75th Anniversary of Polythene


A Acoustic Mapping Aerial Photography African Science Special Air Pollution Algae Aliens Alternative Health Degrees Amusia Ancient Food Ancient Science Fiction Animal Robots Antarctic Science Antarctic Volcanoes Anthropocene Era Anti-Counterfeiting Technologies Anti-matter Arctic Sea Ice Art and Perception Artemisinin Artifical Gills Artificial Intelligence Artificial Life XI Artificial Noses


B BA Festival of Science BA Festival of Science in Dublin BA Festival of Science, Liverpool Baby (Computer), The Back to the Future: Dan Dare Bad Breath Bacteria Bar Coding of Plant DNA Batteries of the future Bee Declines Beijing's Aquatic Centre BepiColumbo Mission to Mercury Best Science Book Ever, The Bioactive Glass Biocomputing Biodegradable Phones Biodiversity Bioethics Biomimetic Optics Birdsong Blood Brain Barrier Bombardier Beetle, The Breath Analysis Bricks Made Out of Rubbish Brunel Bridge Buildings


C Café Scientifique Cannabinoid System, The Captive Breeding Carl Linnaeus Century of Plastic Changing Climates, Evolving Humans Chloroform Climate Change Climate and Culture in Disko Bay Cloud Birth Cluster Chemistry Coastal Wind Jets Coastlines Colliding Universes complexity science Concrete Contagious Laughter Cosmic String Creativity Cutty Sark Cytokines


D Dark Matter Darwin's Dream Data Logging Animals Dating the Past Deep Carbon Cycle, The Deep Sea Fish Deep Tropical Ocean Kelvin Waves Deflecting Asteroids Desalination Designer Soils Designing Against Crime Diatoms Dog DNA Domesday Book and Dead Sea Scrolls, The Dry Rot Dyscalcula


E Earth After Us, The Earthquakes Earth's Big Dynamo, The Ecological Footprint Edinburgh Science Festival, The E-ELT: The European Extremely Large Telescope Egyptian Medicine Einstein Tests El Nino Electron Microscopes Embryos from the Dawn of Animal Life Emil Abderhalden & The End of Gaia Enceladus Encyclopedia Of Life Environment Eurovision Song Contest


F Facial Recognition Fake Blood Fermi Problems Fields Medal, The Film and Emotion Fingerprints Fire Safety Engineering Fish Stock Extinction Fission Future Flood Warning Flu Vaccines Fluorescence Food Safety Forensic Computing Forensic Engineering Fossil Colourisation Franklin Fruit Fly's Brain, The Fuel Cells Fuel Cells from Chocolate and Road Dust Fungi Exploitation Future of Chemistry in the UK Future TV Displays


G Gas Hydrates Gene Therapy Geneology Geological Society's 200th Anniversary, The Geology Gerbils in Kazakhstan Ghost Ship Global Science Graphene Gravitational Lenses Great Frost of 1709 & The Evolution of Language Green Mega-Cities Guinea Pig's History of Biology


H Hair Biomarkers Harlequin Ladybirds Hazardous Waste Heart Exhibition, The HECToR The Supercomputer High Intensity Light Sources History of Cancer, The Homing in on Odysseus' Home Hot Dry Rocks Human Evolution Humans and Crops Huygens Probe and Titan Hydrophobicity


I Inconstant Constants Inkjet Technology Insect Identification Insect Perception Intelligent Agents Interdependence International Polar Year Invasive Tree Pests Ion and Proton Cancer Therapy Ionic Liquids


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K Kamchatka Forest Keeping Cool Kepler's New Astronomy & Darwin and the Eye Knives


L Language Development Language of the Piraha, The Laser Fusion Lasers Leap Seconds LEDs Left Handedness (11/08/2005) Left Handedness (18/10/2007) Leonhard Euler Life on Mars Light Pollution Limestone Decay Lobster Hotels Locusts Lonesome George Longitudinal Studies Lord Kelvin Lungs from Stem Cells


M Malaria Prediction Mallory's Clothes Managing Uncertainty in Complex Models Manchester Science Festival Mapping Membrane Proteins Mass Extinctions Mathematics of Bikes Measuring Gravity Medical Micro Machines Medicinal Plants Medieval Mosaic Preservation Mega Plumes Memories For Life Metabolomics Meteor Showers Mobiles on Planes Moonwatch Morphic Fields & Social Evolution Multidimensionality


N Nanotechnology Nanotubes Nature of experimentation Nature's Best Kept Secret Near Earth Objects Neutrons Probe Spider Silk Secrets New Look at the Sun, A Newton's Papers Nobel Prize for Medicine Nobel Prize Meeting Nuclear Power


O Ocean Acidification Oil from Sand OU Prog 1: Speckled Bush Crickets OU Prog 2: Mount Etna OU Prog 3: Titan Out of Body Experiences


P Paleomagnetism Palladium Paracelsus Parasite Adaptation Parasites Park Grass Experiment, The Pathogen Evolution Pax Warrior Peppered Moth, The Perception, Sound and Light Periodic Table of Videos Phantom Limb Pain Pheromones at 50 Phosphate Recycling Plant Disease Immunisation Plastic Guitars Plate Tectonics Politics of Science, The Politics of Water Polymaths Polymer Electronics Polymers in Dentistry Potato Science Power Harvesting Predatory Bacteria Predicting Natural Disasters Problem of Used Tyres, The Psychology Psychology of Shopping


Q Q&A Christmas Special Q&A Special Quantum Computing Quantum Toolkits for Archaeology


R Redefining the Kilogram Regeneration Game, The Rosalind Franklin Royal Society, The


S Saving Bagpuss Scapa Flow Science Festivals For Children Science Fiction Writing Science of Football, The Science of Formula 1, The Science Play, The Science Vs The Rest Of The World Scientific Image, The Scuba-2 Seaside Smells Seawater Greenhouses Seaweed and Iodine Sediment Analysis and Charting the Oceans Organisms Self healing materials Severn Barrage Shakespeare and the brain Silverpit Debate Skeletons and TB Skin Cancer Skin-eating Caecilians Slime Mould Smart Holograms Smog Snails' Migratory Trails Snake Arm Robot Social Intelligence Solar Energy Solar Panel Technology Solar Sails Sound Perception Sounds of Materials Space exploration and the Environment Space Junk Space Traffic Management Special Edition - Edinburgh's Scientific History Special Edition - The Science of Skiing Special Edition for Interdependence Day Special edition from BA Festival of Science - does the mind extend beyond the physical brain? Special Edition from Ireland - The Leviathan of Parsonstown & Trinity College Library Special edition from Open University's Science Summer School at Heriot-Watt University Spider-Silk Technologies & Aerial Photography Squirrel Bridges and Wildlife Corridors SSSIs Stardust Stardust Results Stealth Warships Stem Cell Controversy Stonehenge & Durrington Walls Student Space Projects String Theory - knot good enough? Subglacial Lakes Subliminal Messaging Sugar Science Sumatran Earthquakes Superbugs Surname Genetics Swarm Intelligence Symmetry Synthetic Biology Synthetic Biology Systems Biology


T Talking bacteria Technology in Action: Robots Termite Engineering Thames Barrier Thames Whale, The Theories of Evolution Thomas Telford Tissue Engineering Totalitarian Science Tracking traffic Traffic Tribulations Tropical Forest Special Tungunska Fireball


U Universe or Multiverse? Up, Up and Away! Urban Ecology


V Value Venus Express Vindolanda Texts Virtual Archaeology Voice Forensics Volcanic Nanoparticles


W Warm flowers / happy bees Wetlands and the Carbon Cycle Where is the Science in Science Documentaries? Why are we Superstitious? Wildlife Forensics Women in Science Wonderland Wood Worms, Bonemeal & Green Rust


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