NASA MARS EXPLORATION PROJECT FINDS LOTS OF WATERThis week scientists from NASA's Mars Exploration Programme have been publishing some extraordinary results produced b...
10th Mar 2002
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Scientists are getting better and better at mind reading. Armed with a brain scanner they can find out just what is going on in your grey matter. And they are dis...
10th Mar 2002
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NASA successfully made contact again with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, on its 30th birthday ! Pioneer 10 was originally launched in 1972 to study asteroids between ...
3rd Mar 2002
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(Daily Telegraph 28th Feb)Most people know that fizzy drinks can ruin your teeth - but did you know that they can also ruin your concentration? The Charles Burrell sch...
3rd Mar 2002
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Nature online 28th FebEurope's largest ever environmental monitoring satellite was launched successfully last week. This was quite a feat - the new satellite, ENVISAT,...
3rd Mar 2002
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Clinical trials of a vaccine for Alzheimer's Disease, which is a common and incurable cause of "senile dementia", were halted this week after it was rep...
3rd Mar 2002
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I wonder how many listeners have (like myself) passed exams just by cramming the night before? We've got bad news for you - the best way to learn new things is to...
3rd Mar 2002
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New research by economists at the Universities of Warwick and Oxford in the UK has provided surprising insight into just how much people hate a winner. It also sh...
17th Feb 2002
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British scientists have discovered the world's oldest fossilized vomit, believed to have come from a large marine reptile 160 million years ago. The vomit contain...
17th Feb 2002
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The University of Cambridge was in the news this week when dinosaur tracks, said to be amongst the best preserved and most extensive in the world, were found in A...
17th Feb 2002
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