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Music enters the science age

The development of musical instruments using science

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Anti-Sense - shooting the messenger

A look at anti-sense medicine, which cancels out the effect of harmful genes

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Aggressive symbiosis

A look at why viruses that do animals no harm are so dangerous to humans

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Genetic screening

How genetic screening can help predict our future and the moral choices it may throw up

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The struggle to control parasites

Why the drugs used to treat parasites may not be so effective in the future

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The coffee trade

Report on coffee, its trade, health implications and history

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The first cloned sheep

Scientists have cloned a lamb using a single cell from a sheep udder

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Viruses with an overcoat

The genetic manipulation of plants and how viruses with 'overcoats' can produce proteins

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Considering memory

A consideration of memory

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Down Under - the geology of Australia

The ancient landscape of Australia

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Rats - a special report

A special report on rats

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Was there life on Mars?

Was there ever life on Mars?

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The DNA family tree

How DNA analysis is showing just how closely related we are to apes

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Malaria - a disaster waiting to happen

Why malaria continues to be a disaster, a century after it was discovered

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The direction of the Universe

New theories on the direction of the Universe

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The electron's 100th anniversary

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of John Joseph Thompson's announcement

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Gamma Rays

Gamma ray bursts, what they are and what they can tell us

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Mitochondria and bacteria

How mitochondria have developed over millions of years with the help of bacteria

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World Ocean's day

A report on the sea to mark World Ocean's day

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From a dwarf to a giant

The Japanese astronomer who saw a dwarf sun turn into a giant, the first person to do so

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Plant extinction by 2050?

Scientists predict a quarter of all plants will be extinct by the year 2050

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Helping children with brain damage

Helping brain damaged children to remember

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Artificial antibodies

The use of artificial antibodies or mini antibodies to combat disease

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Hope for a Malaria vaccine

A new lead in the hunt for a malaria vaccine

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Asteroid Matilda

An asteroid called Matilda. which had a close encounter with the Mir spacecraft

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The life of the ostracoda

Why a conference will be discussing the ostracoda, a small crustacea with 70,000 species

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Dengue fever

Man against mosquito, who will win the fight against dengue fever?

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Sutra Medieval Hospital

Why waste could hold clues as to the day to day practice of a hospital 800 years ago

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A sub-atomic particle

The discovery of a new kind of sub-atomic particle

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Science festival in Leeds

Reporting from the Science festival in Leeds

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