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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Keyhole Surgery

A special report on keyhole surgery

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Scientific News

Scientific headlines of the year including: Is the Universe Younger than its Stars?

• 26 mins

Festive Occasions

Why do some people enjoy parties more than others?

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Genetic Revolution

How the genetic revolution is changing the plant world

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High-Tech Industry

The growing trend for companies to invest in pure research

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Evolution

Evolution's long route out of the primordial swamp

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Pentium Chip Problems

Problems with Intel's new Pentium computer chip

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Life in Space

The continuing search for life in space

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

New treatments for Aids, and Russian chemist Dr Vil Mirzayanov

• 29 mins

New Aids Treatment

A radical new Aids treatment: Natural gas hydrates reserves

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Saving the Mary Rose

The salvage of King Henry VIII's ship, the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545

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Underwater Laboratory

A proposal to build a laboratory on the seamounts of the Azores

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The top quarks

Understanding the 54 top quarks, the fundamental building blocks of life

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The great extinction debate

Are we overthinking the extinction of the dinosaurs?

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Symmetry

Why symmetry in art and science is so appealing to us

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The melting of Antartica

How the melting ice sheets of Antartica may not be down to global warming

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The origins of language

How monkeys are helping us understand how humans evolved to talk

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Polio vaccine

How a polio vaccine with an unlimited shelf life could help eradicate the disease for good

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Complex molecular systems - and a new metal

A new metal which could be cast itself into shape

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The laser scanning opthalmoscope

Scientists unveil a retina laser scanning opthalmoscope

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