British Association Festival of Science

Events at the the sports-focused BAAS festival of science in Newcastle

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Microbes from the oily Deep

Sulphur-cycle bacteria have been found living in oil wells 1,700 metres below ground

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A Combination Drug Therapy for Aids

Encouraging results in a new trial of combination drug treatment for Aids

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Has Hawking changed his Mind about Time Travel?

Stephen Hawking says laws of physics don't exclude the possibility of time travel

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Multiple Winners for three Nobel Prizes

Nobel prize-winners for chemistry, physics and medicine announced

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Total Eclipse of the Sun over Asia

How scientists plan to use the eclipse to calculate the exact size of the sun

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Supersonic Contender for the Land Speed Record

Test driving a car capable of 0-600mph in 60 seconds and 0 to supersonic in under 20

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Making an Exhibition out of Chaos

How chaos theory tells us about patterns in the behaviour of bigger systems

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Magnetic Cloud produces a bigger Northern Lights Show

A huge magnetic cloud produces exceptional displays of the Northern Lights

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Chinese Hominid Fossils are Cause to Rethink Human Evolution

Chinese hominid fossils are one million years older than earlier finds

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Better Bread is all in the Wheat Genes

Make bouncier, frothier bread with transgenic wheat that has enhanced gluten

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Watching a Supernova Explode

'Radio film' catches shockwaves of a supernova explosion

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Making Parts for a Quantum Computer

What future quantum computers will need to work and what they might be able to do for us

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New Animal is in a Phylum of its Own

A 1-mm long creature new to science is discovered in the mouth of the Norwegian lobster

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Can BSE Prions infect Humans?

How is the BSE prion protein transmitted and can it infect humans?

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The Celestial View in 1796

What have we learned since Laplace formulated his nebular hypothesis?

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Genetic Test Supports Jewish Priestly Heritage

Y-chromosome marker supports the tradition of Jewish priests being descendants of Aaron

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Lifestyle and Age at Onset of Alzheimer's Disease

Smoking and alcohol can affect when a person develops Alzheimer's disease

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Two Nearby Planets may be suitable for Life

Two planets discovered recently may have water and support conditions suitable for life

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Galileo probe reaches Jupiter after six years and reports home

Galileo continues to orbit while probe sends back data from the Jupiter's atmosphere

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Scientists want US Helium Reserves protected

Campaign to protect the USA government stockpile of liquid helium stored in Texas

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A Meeting of Thousands of Scientific Minds in Maryland

More than 5,000 gather for the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting

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Three-year Journey to the Asteriod of Love

Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission to Eros asteroid launched

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Concern over Falling Sperm Counts in Men

New study shows men's sperm quality is dropping significantly

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First Flock of Cloned Sheep

Could humans be next after scientists produce first cloned sheep?

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Colour-Coded Fruit with extra Vitamins

New fruit colours could indicate extra nutrient content and even added medicines

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Can We Catch the Human Form of Mad Cow Disease by Eating Beef?

New fears about recent cases of human Creuzfeldt-Jakob Disease being caused by BSE

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Evidence of Gulf War Syndrome

First evidence of nerve damage in Gulf War veterans found in British study

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Quarry Worker discovers ancient ritual Burial Site

Evidence of river burial ritual at 4,000-year-old site

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Rosetta's Rendezvous with a Comet

Rosetta space mission will rendezvous with a comet and will carry two landing craft

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Early Forest inhabitants of South America

Ancient South American forest dwellers' culture excavated in painted cave

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Prion Proteins could link BSE and CJD

New research into prion proteins involved in encephalopathy in sheep, cattle and humans

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Soho Probe unlocks Secrets of the Sun

Nasa's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory sends back first close-up views of the Sun

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Genetically Modified Mosquitoes could stop the Spread of Dengue

Spread of the dengue virus could be halted by genetically modifying its carrier mosquito

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Mystery Solved by a Neanderthal Child's Skull

Identifying the makers of the ancient jewellery found at Arcy-sur-Cure, France

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Cassava Set for Genetic Modification

New research into breeding disease-resistant casava plants with genetic modifications

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Transplanting Male Germ Cells

Will rodent germ cell transplants lead the way for human transplants to treat infertility?

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Cluster Sun Project lost with Failure of Ariane 5 Rocket

Research into sun's magnetic winds lost with destruction of Ariane 5 rocket

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Two New Planets only eight Light Years away

Two new planets found in orbit around our neighbouring star, the red dwarf Lalande 21185

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Lake Found under the Antarctic Ice

Lake Vostok discovered 4 km under the Antarctic ice sheet, below the Russian base

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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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Space Walk to Work on the Hubble Space Telescope

Astronauts' first space walk to install new instruments in Hubble is a success

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Has HERA created a new particle?

Exciting results from the HERA 'atom smasher' but no one knows exactly what they mean yet

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Influenza Epidemic of 1918 carried by Pigs

Genetic investigation of original autopsy specimens shows 1918 influenza carried by swine

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Dolly the Cloned Sheep makes History

How Dolly the sheep has become the first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell

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Looking into the Hearts of Stars in the Laboratory

How plasma experiments create 'very hot, very exotic states of matter' in the laboratory

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Hale-Bopp is brightest Comet for 20 Years

Where and when to see Hale-Bopp and what makes the comet glow so brightly

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Dinosaurs were declining before an Asteroid hit

Volcanic-induced climate changes may have been the main cause of dinosaur extinction

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New Evidence in the Nature versus Nurture Debate

The brains of mice living in an enriched environment show definite advantageous changes

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The Geologist, the Creationist and Noah's Ark

A geologist challenges a creationist under consumer law in an Australian court

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Secrets of Gamma-Ray Bursts in Space

Astronomers locate the origin of mysterious gamma-ray bursts but what exactly is it?

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Did this Dinosaur have Feathers, Frills or Bristles?

The palaeontological jury is still out on whether dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had feathers

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Do tree lizards show evolution in action?

The leg-length of lizards marooned on islands could hold a key to evolutionary processes

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The Perils of Prospecting for Gold

Prospecting for gold after the Bre-X scandal: how not to be fooled by 'salted' samples

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Antarctic Penguins contract Poultry Virus

Did humans or birds carry a serious poultry virus to the Antarctic?

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Peer Review System shows Sexism, says Swedish Report

Claims that peer review system treats women scientists unfairly finds echoes in UK and USA

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Alzheimer's Researchers find a new Way to study the Brain

Mice with an added human gene enable researchers to study amyloid protein in the brain

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Are Women's superior social Skills in their Genes?

Might social skills be influenced by a gene that is turned on in girls and off in boys?

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Breathing in your Medicine

New drug inhalers could replace injections for many medicines

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Cannabis may not be such a soft Drug after all

Rats' extreme withdrawal symptoms from cannabis provide new insights into the drug

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The Prehistoric World of Boxgrove Man

When elephants, lions, panthers and wolves roamed southern England

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Pathfinder is Sending Photos from the Surface of Mars

Mars Pathfinder is sending pictures of an ancient riverbed and a meteor impact crater

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How to Avoid Disaster when Installing a Computer System

Think carefully before you computerise and avoid the sins of pride and credulity

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It's Another Foggy Morning on Mars

Pathfinder's robot, Sojourner, sends weather reports and rock analyses from Mars surface

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Showing off on the Nano-Guitar

Ten-micron-long guitar carved from crystaline silicon by an electron beam

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The Sound of Quantum Mechanics

The first sounds of quantum theory recorded in superfluid helium-3

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Fossil Evidence of Cannibalism

Early hominids and our ancestors ate each other until relatively recently

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Plants Use Electricity to Forecast Storms

Electric currents enable plants to predict storms and prepare to for a growth spurt

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Donating Blood Could be Good for your Heart

How donating blood might reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering iron levels

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British Society for the Advancement of Science Festival

World science celebrated at Festival of the British Society for the Advancement of Science

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