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This year's most essential science books

Experts help compile a list of science reading from texts published throughout 1995

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Science and a look ahead

What the year ahead might bring in science

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Hope for an HIV vaccine

Why a live virus is probably our best hope for a vaccine against Aids

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Finding the sleep switch

Sleep and the mysteries of the master switching centre of the brain

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A view into the past

A journey back in time with the Hubble space telescope

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Life on Mars

Life on Mars, in this case the form of bacteria buried beneath the surface of the planet

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AAAS 1996

A report from the AAAS 1996 where scientific breakthroughs are being discussed

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Breaking the unbreakable

Research shows quarks may be composed of even smaller particles

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Cancer and cachexia

Scientists believe they have found the cause of wasting in cancer and Aids patients

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Cosmic fireworks

NASA scientists have observed a series of gamma ray bursts

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Out of Africa

The out-of-Africa theory, evidence that all non-Africans had a common ancestor

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Gene therapy - hope to hype

Has progress on the development of gene therapy stalled?

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Building Stonehenge

A report on how Stonehenge may have been built earlier than had been at first thought

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Prion Proteins

German scientists have discovered how abnormal prion proteins could lead to brain damage

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Domestic duties in Space

Training astronauts in domestic duties aboard a space shuttle

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Traditional and non-traditional materials

From traditional bamboo to commercial material, and the latest metal that is untouchable

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Life in a box versus life in space

Can life be made to survive in a box, the programme looks at the Ecotron project

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Chernobyl - ten years on

A report on the effects of radiation on people's DNA, 10 years after Chernobyl

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Ultrasound scanning

The insights afforded by the use of ultrasound scans on an unborn foetus

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European space mapping

The European Space Agency approves a satellite to map cosmic microwaves

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Allergies

A new strategy for tackling all allergies

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Natural selection and healing

How the theory of natural selection is becoming important in healing

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Programmed cell death

Scientists are learning more about the process of programmed cell death

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Cell signalling and cancer

Report on the latest discovery into the causes of cancer

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Music and the Mind

Using music as guide to threading our way through our own minds

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Flying with Pterodactyls

A report on the discovery of some well-preserved Pterodactyl skeletons

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Volcanic crisis in Montserrat

Volcanic crisis in Montserrat in the Caribbean

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The planet Neptune

It's been 150 years since the discovery of the gas giant planet Neptune

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

How depression could be treated through transcranial magnetic stimulation

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Human Genome Project

A progress report on the human genome project which hopes to map the DNA of man

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