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09 October 2009

This week we bring you the latest developments in cancer research to find out how beams of protons could be used to...

09 October 2009

This week, Dr Dominic Ford joins Dave Ansell to take on your questions about our universe. They reveal whether it'...

05 October 2009

Rubidium podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

05 October 2009

We find out how sharks, proud owners of cartilaginous skeletons, make red blood cells without the aid of bone marrow.

05 October 2009

In this NewsFlash, we discuss the role of aspirin in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, how recession could be healthy and...

04 October 2009

This week, we catch up with the latest from the front line of cancer research. Kat Arney reports from the National...

02 October 2009

Why is our peripheral vision so good in the dark? Why do we have goosebumps? Do UFOs exist and is there life on other...

02 October 2009

This week, we fly up into the sky to peer into the lives of some brainy birds. We discover how cuckoos manage to...

28 September 2009

This week, we find out how alcohol effects perception of risk vs reward in the adolescent brain and discover how...

27 September 2009

We bring you the highlights from European Researchers Night 2009, which filled the Great North Museum with explosions,...

25 September 2009

This week we're revealing the wonders of modern medicine to learn how science and technology is hoping to keep our...

22 September 2009

Hafnium podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

21 September 2009

Just what is the point to all those ridges and furrows set into our fingers, toes, palms and soles? We do some...

21 September 2009

In the news this week; how green tea builds strong bones, the genes of prostate cancer, biofuels increasing ocean dead...

20 September 2009

Join us in a peek at the secret lives of birds. We find out just how a cuckoo convinces others to care for it's...

18 September 2009

Why do cameras use batteries so quickly? Why does warmth help a battery last longer? How do humans survive lightning...

18 September 2009

This week we bring you the highlights from the British Science Festival including how scientists have been looking into...

17 September 2009

We find out how the Romans got to grips with building a 73.5 mile-long wall, why humans were bejewelled 82,000 years...

16 September 2009

Lanthanum podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

16 September 2009

This month, we dig deep into the world of archaeology to learn how scientists at Diamond are investigating our cultural...

14 September 2009

We discover what it is that makes fewer or more waves crash against the shore each minute. Is it the tides, the sun or...

14 September 2009

In the NewsFlash this week - the relationship between infections and prostate cancer, genetic secrets of plant...

13 September 2009

This week we find out about bionic bodies. We discover whether it's possible to mend a broken heart with stem...

11 September 2009

Pat Bailey, from the University of Keele, explains why he thinks boron is like a middle-aged accountant who...