High-Tech Industry

The growing trend for companies to invest in pure research

• 27 mins

Evolution

Evolution's long route out of the primordial swamp

• 27 mins

Pentium Chip Problems

Problems with Intel's new Pentium computer chip

• 27 mins

Life in Space

The continuing search for life in space

• 28 mins

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

• 27 mins

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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The ancestors of vertebrates

Research which suggests conodonts are the early meat-eating ancestors of vertebrate

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Childhood leukemia and radiation

A look at the causes of childhood leukaemia

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Nitric oxide - the new wonder drug

How nitric oxide, once considered poisonous, could be a future wonder drug

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Human history - it's all in the genes

Can human history be hidden in the genes?

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Repairing the brain

Report on a new centre for brain repair, which has just opened at Cambridge University

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Artificial body parts - the six million dollar human

Could bionic limbs emerge from science fiction to science fact?

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Stem cells and the brain

How medical researchers are aiming to create a brain cell bank

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Ants in the city

The rules that run colonies of ants and what they can teach us about cities

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The wonder of extremophiles

The wonder of extremophiles, micro organisms which live in extreme conditions

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Depression

Depression and attempts to identify the causes of it

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Recreating the Earth's magnetic field

How two geophysicists have recreated the Earth's core using a supercomputer

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The Galaxy's New Black Hole

The discovery of a new black hole, a collapsed star which can swallow light

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The abalone and family planning

How the abalone's evolution might help with the development of contraception

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The link between red hair and skin cancer

The reason why red-haired people are prone to skin cancer

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