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| | | Leading Edge brings you the latest news from the world of science. Geoff Watts celebrates discoveries as soon as they're being talked about - on the internet, in coffee rooms and bars; often before they're published in journals. And he gets to grips with not just the science, but with the controversies and conversation that surround it.
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"If what interests you are new and exciting ideas, it's science you should be turning to. And whether it's the Human Genome Project or the origins of the Universe, Leading Edge is the place to hear about them."
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Flooding
Who can you sue over climate change when your house is flooded? That’s the question asked by an Oxfordshire physicist this week whose own home was nearly flooded last month during heavy rains. As more of us find our houses at the mercy of rising waters, Leading Edge ask if science could ever provide enough evidence to conclusively link man-made global warming to the risk of a flood event in your local area. If they could it might mean the possibility of flood victims suing polluters for pushing up insurance premiums and lowering house prices in flood-sensitive areas. As Geoff Watts discovers, it’s all down to the subtle difference between climate and weather. The first is what you expect at a given time of year and the second is what you actually get, which in Britain can mean freak storms in June. But could you really take anyone to court because of a flash flood?
Carbon Sequestion
Carbon sequestration means taking carbon out of the atmosphere and burying it in rocks or in the oceans. So far it’s happened piecemeal fashion, most notably in the North Sea by an Norwegian oil company. But in a move designed to deflect some of the criticisms of US energy policy under George Bush's administration, the National Energy Technology Laboratory in the United States, has put forward a long-term plan to remove up to 90 percent of Carbon Dioxide emissions from the atmosphere. Ambitious or the first step in a worldwide project to reverse the greenhouse affect? Geoff Watts talks to Grant Bromahl. | |  | | |
Sport Psychology
How does the mind affect injury to our top sports people- why do they always seem to get injured before a big event? Our reporter Claudia Hammond finds out more.
False Memory Syndrome
False memory syndrome hit the headlines a fewweeks ago after stories on alien abduction. But how suceptible are ordinary people to beliveing things that never really happened? Geoff speaks to the researchers who are studying False Memory Syndrome, including Elisabeth Loftus from the University of Washington who has been finding out why we areÌýso vulnerable to our imaginations. | | |
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