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18/11/2010

Quentin Cooper looks into the science stories of the week. Including the development of disease resistant crops, and the exhumation the body of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.

Quentin Cooper presents this week's digest of science in and behind the headlines. In this edition: the development of disease resistant crops the better to feed our swelling population; trapping anti-hydrogen atoms to unravel one of the great mysteries in physics; and exhuming the body of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe to find out whether he really died of a bladder infection.

The producer is Roland Pease.

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30 minutes

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Mon 22 Nov 2010 21:00

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  • Thu 18 Nov 2010 16:30
  • Mon 22 Nov 2010 21:00

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