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Hearing the Health Message in Finland

Heartening news for Finnish coronary health researchers

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Will Men Freeze their Assets?

Is the sperm bank the future of contraception for men?

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Waiting for Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Collision with Jupiter

All telescopes are turned towards Jupiter to watch the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

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When Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collided with Jupiter

What astronomers saw when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter

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Rogue Prion Proteins cause CJD

New evidence of how an abnormal prion protein accumulates in the brain and causes CJD

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China Breaks the Satellite Parking Code

China has parked its new satellite too close to its neighbours for comfort

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The Nuclear Smuggling Business

Chemical finger-printing of nuclear material can reveal the origin of smuggled plutonium

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How the Body Renews its Energy

Scientists pinpoint the role of ATP in the renewal of the body's energy

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Mystery Object Discovered in the Milky Way

A black hole or a neutron star discovered only 40,000 light years away in the Milky Way

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Speaking with Machines

Text-to-speech synthesisers and communicating with machines

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Unlocking Secrets of our Sun

Space probe Ulysses reports surprising findings as it orbits the Sun

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Earliest Human Ancestor Found in Ethiopia

Our earliest ancestor is now Ardipithicus ramidus with bones dated 4.4 million years old

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Is the Universe younger than we thought?

The Universe might only be 12 billion years old, suggests new research

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The Wreck of the Titanic Exhibition opens

Artifacts raised from the Titanic go on show in London for the first time

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Experiments support ESP

Extra-sensory perception or sensory transfer effect has been detected in the laboratory

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New Aids Treatment Research

Can passive immune therapy pass on immunity to Aids patients?

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Quantum Devices get closer

Breakthrough in quantum device development announced by Toshiba laboratory, Cambridge

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Oldest Europeans' bone Tools at Boxgrove

Europe's earliest bone tools show more modern behaviour in early man than earlier believed

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How Harmful is Lead Pollution?

A survey on effects of lead poisoning published by British Medical Journal

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Could this be Dinosaur DNA?

DNA extracted from 80-million-year-old fossil bone might belong to a dinosaur

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Science and Technology in Paris

Special edition focusing on the latest in science and technology in Paris

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New Cancer Drug announced

New enzyme-inhibiting drug designed to stop the spread of cancer

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Turning on the Immune System Again

New way to turn immune system back on and restore sensitivity to antigens

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Bad News for Ex-Smokers

New figures for lung cancer in non-smokers shows defered risk

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Quiz of the Year

Teams compete to answer questions on the year's scientific breakthroughs

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Gene Therapy Research for Cystic Fibrosis

Delivering gene therapy for cystic fibrosis as a nasal spray

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Do Power Lines affect our Health?

Power workers' occupational study shows increase in brain cancers but not leukemia

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Lessons from the Spider's Web

The biophysics of the spider's web and the secrets of it's stopping power

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Hormones and Depression in Premenstrual Syndrome

How oestrogen levels affect seratonin levels in premenstrual syndrome

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The Cost of underestimating Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia research centre opened in Oxford by Prince of Wales

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