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• Material World 24th May 2012: Perceptions of energy generation, light loving bugs, new faster chips, & not predicting earthquakes

  Thu, 24 May 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  Energy generation perceptions, light loving bugs, fast chips, and predicting earthquakes.

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• Material World 17th May 2012: Pollen and war crimes, art and emotion science versus politics and underground railways

  Thu, 17 May 12

  Duration:
  28 mins

  Why pollen provides the key evidence in the Bosnian war crimes trials, experimenting with arts and emotions and why all tube networks are fundamentally the same.

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• Material World 10th May 2012: Alchemy, hormones and Afghan astronomy

  Thu, 10 May 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  The influence of alchemy on modern science, how hormones can determine profit and loss in financial markets and Afghanistan’s schools using astronomy as a way into science.

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• Material World 3rd May 2012: North Sea wind power, Bending Gamma rays horrid noises and how to hack.

  Thu, 3 May 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  Developing North Sea wind power, Bending Gamma rays to help cure cancer, the nature of horrid noises and a hackers guide to hacking.

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• Material World 26th April 2012: Intelligent travel, cosmic rays and voices.

  Thu, 26 Apr 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  How to keep the cars of the future moving on the roads of the future. The origins and dangers of cosmic rays, and what factors determine how you speak?

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• Material World 19th April: Breast cancer breakthrough, maths of politics, CT scan, SYWTBAS

  Thu, 19 Apr 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  A breast cancer breakthrough, reclassification may lead to better treatment, how maths can improve politics, the history of CT scans and stripes on parade in our experiment.

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• Material World 12th April :

  Thu, 12 Apr 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  Titanic telecommunications, undersea earthquakes and do people sound how they look.

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• Material world 05 Apr Strings, spies and science

  Thu, 5 Apr 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  Henry Moore’s scientific influence, how to spy on line and is science boring?

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• MW 29 Mar;Gas Bacteria, Geoengineering, SYWTBAS

  Thu, 29 Mar 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  Gas eating bacteria, how to save the world and what stripes might do to your figure.

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• Material World 22 Mar: auctions, marine pharmaceuticals, sleep

  Thu, 22 Mar 12

  Duration:
  28 mins

  The science and tricks behind closed-bid auctions; searching the ocean depths for medicines; horrible noises; a very short introduction to sleep.

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