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Tom Feilden

Tom is BBC Radio 4 Today programme’s science correspondent. He covers an eclectic mix of developments in physics and astronomy, medicine, genetics, wildlife and climate change - from super massive black holes to preserving adder habitats. A former presenter of Radio 4's Costing the Earth, he won an awards for his series on wildlife in Britain in 2000 and coverage of climate change in 2001. He lives in north London with his partner and three children.

  • Citizen science is the new black

    Published
    15 October 2013
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    Science & Environment
    Hubble image of the galaxy cluster Abell 1689

  • Reaching Out To The Stars

    Published
    13 September 2013
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    Science & Environment
    An artist rendering of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft in space

  • Could avatars aid schizophrenia therapy?

    Published
    2 July 2013
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    Science & Environment

  • Stark warning over state of nature

    Published
    22 May 2013
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    Science & Environment

  • Building a biological model of mental illness

    Published
    17 May 2013
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    Science & Environment
    Conceptual computer artwork of a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) double helix

  • Is Nasa looking in the wrong place for life?

    Published
    16 April 2013
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    Science & Environment
    Europa, the sixth satellite moon of Jupiter, is set to be surveyed by Nasa

  • 'Cinderella cancer' comes in from the cold

    Published
    28 March 2013
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    Science & Environment
    DaVinci surgical robot

  • Characterising exoplanets

    Published
    15 March 2013
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    Science & Environment
    An artist's impression of an exoplanet orbiting close to a star

  • Keeping up with the Jinzhousauruses

    Published
    8 February 2013
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    Science & Environment

  • Which bright spark knocked over the inkwell?

    Published
    16 January 2013
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    Science & Environment

  • Does lead poisoning make you violent?

    Published
    9 January 2013
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    Health

  • The shape of medicine to come?

    Published
    8 January 2013
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    Health

  • Switching on a light in the brain

    Published
    27 November 2012
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    Science & Environment

  • Nipping MRSA in the bud

    Published
    14 November 2012
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    Science & Environment

  • Gas guzzler

    Published
    10 November 2012
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    Science & Environment

  • Gas guzzler

    Published
    10 November 2012
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    Science & Environment

  • 'Not-so-identical' twins may hold the key to disease

    Published
    23 October 2012
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    Science & Environment

  • Badgers back in the firing line

    Published
    12 October 2012
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    Science & Environment

  • Of birdbaths and birdbrains

    Published
    26 July 2012
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    Science & Environment

  • Seeing in the dark

    Published
    11 July 2012
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    Science & Environment

  • A sombre warning from outer space

    Published
    28 June 2012
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    Science & Environment

  • Time for a re-think on GM crops?

    Published
    26 June 2012
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    Science & Environment

  • The transit of science

    Published
    1 June 2012
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    Science & Environment

  • A new age of unreason or a geek dawn?

    Published
    25 May 2012
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    Science & Environment