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How Cholera Bacteria turn nasty

Cholera bacterium produces harmful toxin only when it is infected by a virus

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Why Don't Europeans Carry Neanderthal Genes?

Modern humans don't seem to have interbred with Neanderthals, report geneticists

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1,500th Edition of Science in Action

Creating elusive W particles at CERN to test particle theories

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Galileo's Pictures of Jupiter and its Moons

Are these the best ever pictures of Jupiter?

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Partial Repair of spinal Injury in Rats

Research into repairing the spinal cord with nerve fibres in rats raises hopes for humans

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Early Bird is 115 million years old

Spanish bird fossil is the first specimen with alulae or wing flaps for slow flight

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Are these the Remains of Microbes from Mars?

Nasa's claims that fossils of micro-organisms have been found in a meteorite from Mars

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New Report 20 Years after Seveso Disaster

Unusual sex ratio reported in births in Seveso in the first years after dioxin accident

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Funding Cuts Result in unsafe UK Labs, claim Scientists

Save British Science group blames unsafe university labs on government funding cuts

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BSE Epidemic 'will be over by 2001'

The BSE epidemic years away but the worst is already over, report Oxford researchers

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A Better View of the Birth of a Galaxy

The Hubble Space Telescope's new pictures show how galaxies might form

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New CJD Marker enables Diagnosis

New marker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease found in spinal fluid helps diagnosis

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Link between Hormone and Vulnerability to HIV

Do contraceptives containing progesterone increase the likelihood of HIV infection?

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Meet the Nobel Science Prize-Winners

Nobel Prizes for Medicine, Chemistry and Physics go to research from as early as 1970s

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Methane Hydrate from under the Sea

Large methane hydrate deposits have been discovered on the seabed off north-west USA

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Small Feathered Dinosaur Found in China

A bidpedal dinosaur with downy feathers on its back lived in China 135 million years ago

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British Support for Claims of Life on Mars

Britons find possible evidence of life on Mars in two meteorites found in the Antarctic

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Global Surveyor Mission to Mars Launches

New space probe sets off to map the whole of Mars and carry out experiments

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A Possible Common Vertebrate Ancestor

Could a tiny eel-like fossil creature be the ancestor of all vertebrates?

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Cluster Project could still Take Off

Costs of rebuilding Cluster project to probe the solar winds and magnetic weather in space

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Testing a new treatment Model for Muscular Dystrophy

A replacement found for a missing protein in muscular dystrophy in mice

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Turtle Highways Discovered in the Pacific Ocean

How leatherback turtles travel long distances along mysterious migration corridors

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Diverse Origins of Modern Man

Early human evolution involved multiple hominid species in Asia as well as Europe

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Science in Action Listeners' Questions

Special edition where a panel of experts answer scientific questions sent in by listeners

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First Wheat Harvest in Space

First wheat grown in space is tasty news for astronauts of the future

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Predictions of Better Weather Forecasts

Will the Atlantic storm chasers of Fastex improve our weather forecasts?

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Trans-Species Transplantation Ban in UK

Pig-to-human organ transplants banned by UK because of possibility of viral infections

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Oldest Tools made by Man's Ancestors

Preshistoric technology used to make 2.5 million-year-old stone tools found in Ethiopia

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Long-term Effects of Bhopal Chemical Disaster

Report on incurable long-term health effects of the Bhopal chemical disaster 12 years ago

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A Refit for the Hubble Space Telescope

Astronauts will install new instruments to enable Hubble to see more and deeper into space

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