- Helen Scales
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) aims to regulate the trade in animal and plant species threatened with extinction throu
gh worldwide trade, legal or illegal. Helen has a look at its workings.
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- Kat Arney
Hold the front page! Some white-coated genius somewhere has found a gene for violence: suddenly our streets will be a safer place. Or how about genes for obesity and ageing, so we can look forward to becoming a nation of pert young things?
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- Helen Pickersgill
Genes make you what you are. All living things have them (humans have about 25,000) and they're like blueprints. Dr Helen Pickersgill looks at the science, use and abuse of Genetically modified (GM) foods.
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- Varuna Aluvihare
Although the summer appears to have ended, I thought I would deal with something that provides a perfect opportunity to marry good food and wine: the barbecue.
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- Kat Arney
The brain is probably the most fascinating yet impenetrable organ studied by scientists. One question that remains to be answered is why we have two halves to our brains, and are they the same?
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- Dalya Rosner
Research has shown that bald males command a larger harem of females than their hairier counterparts...that is, if the bald male is a maneless Tsavo lion from Kenya.
Is this due to testosterone production, and do women find bald men more attractive?
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- Philip Strange
Surprising as it sounds, one of the world's top tipples a century ago was laced with cocaine. And although the manufacturers have changed the recipe in recent years, Coca Cola is still a market leader, but why was the cocaine there in the first place, and where does the drug come from?
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- Bruce Wright
The marine ecosystem in Alask has undergone a dramatic ecosystem shift: over just 20 years, previously-abundant shrimp and herring have vanished to be replaced by cod and sharks. Conservationist Bruce Wright finds out why...
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- Robinson Fulweiler
Climate change has been blamed with altering the environment – from animal migrations to sea level. Now it's also affecting nutrient cycling. Excess nitrogen discharged into estuaries used to be removed by a bacterial process in the sediments. But recent research shows a dramatic change...
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- Gene Mascoli
The Chilean Sea Bass, or Patagonian Toothfish, is a very tasty fish particularly popular in America. Gene looks into why it has suddenly become very expensive and could be getting more so.
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