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Life in Space
The continuing search for life in space
American Association for the Advancement of Science
New treatments for Aids, and Russian chemist Dr Vil Mirzayanov
New Aids Treatment
A radical new Aids treatment: Natural gas hydrates reserves
Saving the Mary Rose
The salvage of King Henry VIII's ship, the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545
Underwater Laboratory
A proposal to build a laboratory on the seamounts of the Azores
The top quarks
Understanding the 54 top quarks, the fundamental building blocks of life
The great extinction debate
Are we overthinking the extinction of the dinosaurs?
Symmetry
Why symmetry in art and science is so appealing to us
The melting of Antartica
How the melting ice sheets of Antartica may not be down to global warming
The origins of language
How monkeys are helping us understand how humans evolved to talk
Polio vaccine
How a polio vaccine with an unlimited shelf life could help eradicate the disease for good
Complex molecular systems - and a new metal
A new metal which could be cast itself into shape
The laser scanning opthalmoscope
Scientists unveil a retina laser scanning opthalmoscope
The ancestors of vertebrates
Research which suggests conodonts are the early meat-eating ancestors of vertebrate
Childhood leukemia and radiation
A look at the causes of childhood leukaemia
Nitric oxide - the new wonder drug
How nitric oxide, once considered poisonous, could be a future wonder drug
Human history - it's all in the genes
Can human history be hidden in the genes?
Repairing the brain
Report on a new centre for brain repair, which has just opened at Cambridge University
Artificial body parts - the six million dollar human
Could bionic limbs emerge from science fiction to science fact?
Stem cells and the brain
How medical researchers are aiming to create a brain cell bank
Ants in the city
The rules that run colonies of ants and what they can teach us about cities
The wonder of extremophiles
The wonder of extremophiles, micro organisms which live in extreme conditions
Depression
Depression and attempts to identify the causes of it
Recreating the Earth's magnetic field
How two geophysicists have recreated the Earth's core using a supercomputer
The Galaxy's New Black Hole
The discovery of a new black hole, a collapsed star which can swallow light
The abalone and family planning
How the abalone's evolution might help with the development of contraception
The link between red hair and skin cancer
The reason why red-haired people are prone to skin cancer
100 Years of X-Rays
Special edition commemorating 100 years of X-rays, discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Rontgen
Hope for an Aids vaccine
Report on a promising new clue towards a vaccine and even a treatment for Aids
Scientists at MIT
Reporting from Cambridge, Massachusetts and talking to scientists who work there
Space and the search for infrared
The launch of a European rocket from French Guiana
