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Languages
How long ago did languages evolve?
Designer Sperm
Could human sperm be genetically altered?
Computer Musical Appreciation
Could a computer ever learn to appreciate Louis Armstrong?
Top Quark
Have scientists in Chicago really found a dozen examples of "top quark"?
Murder, Magic, and Medicine
The history of extracting chemical substances from natural sources - including poisons
New Glass, Better Lenses
How new glass technology will create better lenses
Boxgrove Man
Dr Chris Stringer, Boxgrove Man, and the origins of Europeans
Francis Crick
Nobel Laureate Francis Crick with his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis
St Pancras Station
Report from St Pancras Station in London as architects fight to save the building
New Frontiers in Science
Imaging technology in brain surgery, and HERA, the electron-proton collider in Hamburg
Death
Why do we have to die, what can kill us and what happens to the body after death?
Gene Therapy
How gene therapy could be used to fight deadly forms of cancer
Animal Behaviour
How studying animal behaviour could improve animal welfare
Good Vibrations
The scientific principles of stringed instruments
Reducing the Greenhouse Effect
Reducing the greenhouse effect, and computers that can learn to solve problems
1000th Edition
Featuring transgenic sheep: particle physics: and Nobel laureate Professor George Porter
Learning to Speak
How do children learn to speak, and why do some learn more slowly that others?
Auditory Discrimination
How does auditory discrimination work?
High Blood Pressure
How naturally produced endothelin-1 effects blood pressure
Woods Hole
A special report from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts
The 125th Anniversary of Nature Magazine
From the discovery of the electron in 1897 to Watson and Crick's structure of DNA in 1953
Virtual Reality
How realistic is virtual reality? And when will the technology be publicly available?
Turkey
A special edition looking at the geology and astrology of Turkey
The Fight Against Aids
The world fight against Aids. Also, a new test for memory
The Human Brain
Unravelling the workings of the human brain
Keyhole Surgery
A special report on keyhole surgery
Scientific News
Scientific headlines of the year including: Is the Universe Younger than its Stars?
Festive Occasions
Why do some people enjoy parties more than others?
Genetic Revolution
How the genetic revolution is changing the plant world
High-Tech Industry
The growing trend for companies to invest in pure research
Evolution
Evolution's long route out of the primordial swamp
