Programme exploring new ideas in science and meeting the scientists and researchers responsible for them, as well as hearing from their critics
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Programme exploring new ideas in science and meeting the scientists and researchers responsible for them, as well as hearing from their critics
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Available since yesterday.
Sue Nelson joins scientists down a mine on their search for the elusive dark matter.
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Available since last Monday.
Sue Broom visits the UK's first specialist placenta clinic in Manchester.
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Available since Mon, 13 Jul 2009.
Richard Hollingham investigates the questions raised by synthetic biology.
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Available in RealMedia only since Tue, 7 Jul 2009.
Gareth Mitchell asks if nuclear fusion could at last be close to generating energy.
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Available since Mon, 6 Jul 2009.
Sue Broom catches up on progress in stem cell research.
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