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Discovery

American Association for Advancement of ScienceAmerican Association for Advancement of Science

Released On: 21 Feb 1994

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Special report from annual meeting of American Association for Advancement of Science

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How long ago did languages evolve?
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Designer Sperm
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Computer Musical Appreciation
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Top Quark
Have scientists in Chicago really found a dozen examples of "top quark"?
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Murder, Magic, and Medicine
The history of extracting chemical substances from natural sources - including poisons
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New Glass, Better Lenses
How new glass technology will create better lenses
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Boxgrove Man
Dr Chris Stringer, Boxgrove Man, and the origins of Europeans
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Francis Crick
Nobel Laureate Francis Crick with his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis
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St Pancras Station
Report from St Pancras Station in London as architects fight to save the building
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New Frontiers in Science
Imaging technology in brain surgery, and HERA, the electron-proton collider in Hamburg
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Death
Why do we have to die, what can kill us and what happens to the body after death?
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Gene Therapy
How gene therapy could be used to fight deadly forms of cancer
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Animal Behaviour
How studying animal behaviour could improve animal welfare
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Good Vibrations
The scientific principles of stringed instruments
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Reducing the Greenhouse Effect
Reducing the greenhouse effect, and computers that can learn to solve problems
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1000th Edition
Featuring transgenic sheep: particle physics: and Nobel laureate Professor George Porter
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Learning to Speak
How do children learn to speak, and why do some learn more slowly that others?
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Auditory Discrimination
How does auditory discrimination work?
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High Blood Pressure
How naturally produced endothelin-1 effects blood pressure
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Woods Hole
A special report from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts
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The 125th Anniversary of Nature Magazine
From the discovery of the electron in 1897 to Watson and Crick's structure of DNA in 1953
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Virtual Reality
How realistic is virtual reality? And when will the technology be publicly available?
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Turkey
A special edition looking at the geology and astrology of Turkey
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The Fight Against Aids
The world fight against Aids. Also, a new test for memory
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The Human Brain
Unravelling the workings of the human brain
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