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The melting of Antartica

How the melting ice sheets of Antartica may not be down to global warming

How the melting ice sheets of Antartica may not be down to global warming. The discovery of a volanco under Antartica has helped explain why some of its ice is melting, but could this cause the continent's ice sheets to move apart? Also in the programme, a look at artificial life and its definition, and how geneticists in Oxford may have pinpointed the gene which causes a common form of male mental retardation.

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