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Neural tube defects

Breakthroughs in detection and treatment of neural tube defects such as in spina bifida

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Sex

Why, in evolutionary terms, does sex cost so much?

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Preventing Brain Damage

Preventing brain damage in newborn babies. Also, how Aids is changing in Africa

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Gene Therapy

The latest research in gene therapy for heart disease and cystic fibrosis

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American Association for Advancement of Science

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

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Synaesthesia

Exploring synaesthesia - a world of salty vision and purple odours

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Guildhall Archaeological Dig

A Roman amphitheatre and Saxon remains are discovered in the heart of London

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Facial Attraction

What makes a face attractive?

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New Bush Babies

Four new species of bush babies are discovered in Africa - but could there be many more?

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Languages

How long ago did languages evolve?

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Designer Sperm

Could human sperm be genetically altered?

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Computer Musical Appreciation

Could a computer ever learn to appreciate Louis Armstrong?

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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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