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Material World

Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects

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    09/07/2009

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    Quentin Cooper hears about the birth of an ocean off the Horn of Africa.

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    1. 02/07/2009

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      Quentin Cooper reports from the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2009.

    2. 25/06/2009

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      Available since Thu, 25 Jun 2009.

      Quentin Cooper champions chimp culture, measures dinosaurs and dissects elections.

    3. 18/06/2009

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      Quentin Cooper checks out microbes, maths behind football's calendar and Leominster's air.

    4. 11/06/2009

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      Low-energy housing, cancer DNA, Swine Flu, plus stories of impending planetary collision.

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Quentin Cooper talks to the scientists chasing the 2009 solar eclipse in the South Pacific

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