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• Solving the dilemma of gender imbalance
  What would have been unimaginable in many European countries only a few decades ago is now...

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• A Joint Love Letter to Science
  Why is science important? As a teacher – faced with the inevitable question: "what’s...

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• Can Science Reveal the Truth?
    In St John's gospel, Jesus Christ tells Pilate that he has come into the world to bear...

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• Tardigrades: The World's Toughest Critters
  The humble water bear has been the subject of some pretty nasty experiments lately. Scientists...

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• Superbugs that Dine on Antibiotics
  There's something lurking about your garden, weaving in and out of your vegetables and making...

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• The Science of Skin Care
  The age-old dream of keeping our skin looking young and healthy is starting to come true, thanks...

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• Fruit Flies Unravel Brain Mysteries
  Scientists are investigating the genetic system of the Drosophila fruit fly to discover how...

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• Solar Sailing
  The world's space agencies are planning to explore space with the technology of sailing...

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• Earth's History: Freeze and Fry
    Today’s rapid climate change is undoubtedly the result of greenhouse gases produced by...

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• Cosmic Quest
  There have been three great revolutions which have shaped our view of the heavens and our place...

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• Fractal Power
    Share prices, the shape of the coastline, the strength of metals and the latest...

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• Mosquito and cucumber salad anyone?
  Could a genetic hybrid of a mosquito and a sea cucumber spell the end of malaria - one of the...

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• Tall Tales: Giant Squid
  Are the oceans hiding monsters of epic proportions? And will they survive long enough for us to...

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• A mysterious dark energy fills the universe...
  Dark energy makes the universe fly apart like a runaway freight train and keeps space-time flat...

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• Aubrey de Grey wants to wish you a happy 200th...
  Death and Taxes, we’re told, are inevitable. Aubrey de Grey, however, believes that aging is...

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• Immunotherapy: Looking through cancer's invisibility...
  The human body is bombarded daily with infectious agents and other toxins resulting in...

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• The 'Ides of March'... In January?
  It's one of Shakespeare's most memorable phrases... Julius Caesar is told by a soothsayer that...

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• How advanced are we as a civilisation?
  In 1964 soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed a scale for measuring the technological...

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• Christmas, winter, darkness, stress and depression
  December through February are statistically the worst months for stress and depression. It’s...

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• Ancient Chinese Astronomy: New insights from old...
  China has the world’s longest-running observations of the sky: though based in astrology, they...

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• An aircraft capable of bombing any target on earth...
  Standard passenger jets travel at around 900 km/h…. could you imagine flying ten times that...

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• Who are the 2007 Nobel Prize Winners?
  There are other awards and honours which can be earned by scientists – but the Nobel Prize is...

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• Microscopes: why seeing smaller is not always better
  Why are researchers working on a new type of microscope that has a lower resolution than those...

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• The cult of hot chili peppers
  The names of the products tell much of the story; Death Sauce, Iguana Radioactive Atomic Pepper,...

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• Where Physics and Mysticism don't meet
  Are all things in the universe connected to each other? Can you change your reality simply by...

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• Suspended Animation: Fact or fiction?
  Erica Nordby, a toddler in Edmonton Canada had wandered out alone into the frigid night. Before...

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• The onslaught of allergies
  Right now, 36 million people across the U.S. are fighting sneezing fits, runny noses and weeping...

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• Chaos Theory Demystified
  Physics has been practised, in one form or another, for thousands of years. Throughout that...

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• Can people be influenced by subliminal messages?
  Banned in many countries, it may have swung a US presidential election and could be the next big...

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• More 2007 meteor showers on the way!
  If you were disappointed that you missed the recent Perseid meteor shower, don�t fret there�s...

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