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  1. 24/05/2012

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

  2. 17/05/2012

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    Available since Thu, 17 May 2012.

    Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news.

  3. 10/05/2012

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    Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news.

  4. 03/05/2012

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    Available since Thu, 3 May 2012.

    Science magazine programme.

  5. 26/04/2012

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    Science magazine programme.

  6. 19/04/2012

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    Available since Thu, 26 Apr 2012.

    Science magazine programme.

  7. 12/04/2012

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    Available since Wed, 18 Apr 2012.

    Undersea earthquakes, Titanic telecommunications, and do people sound how they look?

  8. 05/04/2012

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    The influence of mathematical models on the sculptor Henry Moore.

  9. 29/03/2012

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    Available since Thu, 5 Apr 2012.

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

  10. 22/03/2012

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    The science of auctions, life on the ocean floor, and why the clock change might kill us.

  11. 15/03/2012

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    Quentin Cooper with news of a new hominin puzzle from China, and where art meets science.

  12. 08/03/2012

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    Available since Thu, 15 Mar 2012.

    Aliens in Antarctica, meteor impacts, nasty noises and star-quakes.

  13. 01/03/2012

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    Available since Thu, 8 Mar 2012.

    Chief Science Advisers in Government, animals in research, and the oldest forest.

  14. 23/02/2012

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    Do men have a genetic future? Defining the kilogram and how to turn sunshine into fuel.

  15. 16/02/2012

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    Star on the brink of a supernova explosion; our global water footprint; New Elizabethans.

  16. 09/02/2012

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    Quentin Cooper asks if Freud was a scientist, and reviews the week's science.

  17. 02/02/2012

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    Genome ethics, having friends takes brains, emotional art, and triggering an ice age.

  18. 26/01/2012

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    The next flu pandemic, an Arctic bulge, faces and voices and the Panama Canal.

  19. 19/01/2012

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    The world in 3D, Darwin's lost fossils, fashionable stripes, and the end of Angkor.

  20. 12/01/2012

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    Teaching computer science, mapping dark matter, emerging pests and nasty noises.

  21. 05/01/2012

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    Available since Thu, 12 Jan 2012.

    Quentin asks if the world will end in 2012 and why people make apocalyptic predictions.

  22. 29/12/2011

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    Revealing the four finalists competing to become the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year.

  23. 22/12/2011

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    New planets, brain chips, amateur scientists, Christmas trees and sexy robins.

  24. 15/12/2011

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    The Higgs particle, pairing scientists with MPs, amateur scientists and moon art.

  25. 08/12/2011

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    Available since Thu, 15 Dec 2011.

    Catching carbon from air, scarce elements, fossil eyes and amateur scientist candidates.

  26. 01/12/2011

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    The risk of thawing permafrost, space worms and DNA barcoding.

  27. 24/11/2011

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    Top government scientists discuss risk and Quentin investigates insect flight.

  28. 17/11/2011

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    Available since Thu, 24 Nov 2011.

    Regulating geo-engineering, getting to Mars and a new island in the Atlantic.

  29. 10/11/2011

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    Fracking for gas, listening to quakes, hidden heroes and amateur science.

  30. 03/11/2011

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    Quentin Cooper discusses the latest events at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.

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