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Material World; Wood burning for energy; Super Symmetry; Drones; Sweat

Thu, 15 Nov 12

Duration: 29 mins

Can burning biomass in the form of wood appear to be a better idea than it really is? Can emotions be transmitted between humans via Chemosignals in people's sweat? Are reports of supersymmetry's demise highly exaggerated? Plus Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal of consortium ASTRAEA talks to Quentin about the testing of civilian applications for Unmanned Aircraft, AKA drones.

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Bird deaths, Coffee, Ancient Tools

Thu, 8 Nov 12

Duration: 29 mins

Why are birds migrating to the UK falling out of the sky and dying? Loss of the wild Arabica coffee crop could have significant implications for the sustainability of high quality coffee and a haul of stone blades from a cave in South Africa suggests that early humans were already masters of complex technology more than 70,000 years ago. . .

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Material World 1st Nov: Trees,1000 Genomes,Energy

Duration: 29 mins

John Loughhead and Malcolm Wilkinson discuss the various challenges and possible solutions to storing electrical energy. Scientists have sequenced the genomes of 1,000 people to help researchers understand indicators of disease or medicinal effectiveness. And Ash dieback may be in the headlines but many other trees species are also being affected by disease. .

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Material World 25 Oct: Earthquake, Ancient Tablets, See-through Soil

Duration: 28 mins

Reaction to the six-year prison sentences handed to seven Italian scientific advisors for inadequate LâAquila earthquake risk communication.Dr Jacob Dahl is trying to decrypt one of the oldest known written languages, proto-Elamite.And Dr Leonel Dupuy describes his breakthrough in the development of a see-through soil.

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Material World 18th Oct: Badgers, Ants and New Planets

Duration: 29 mins

Lord Krebs, architect of the previous badger culling trial, on the scientific evidence surrounding the controversial policy. Plus Chris Lintott on the discovery of a new planet, Adam Hart talks about flying ants and Stuart Clark with space stamps.

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Material World 11th Oct: Nobel Prize Winners

Duration: 29 mins

Quentin speaks with three of this year's winners of the Nobel Prize; Prof. Sir John Gurdon for Physiology or Medicine, Prof. Serge Haroche for Physics, and Prof. Brian Kobilka for Chemistry.

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Material World 4th October 2012: Retractions

Duration: 29 mins

Retractions: what happens when published research is wrong? And ecologists ask the public to help them identify 2 million bat calls and test tube spiders

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Material World 27th September 2012: Gravity Fields

Duration: 29 mins

Quentin Cooper visits the "Gravity Fields" festival in Grantham, Lincs., which aims to celebrate the legacy of the town's most famous son, Sir Isaac Newton.

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Material World 20 September 2012: Climate computer modelling, flies and bumblebees

Duration: 29 mins

This week on Material World; how climate computer modelling is being used to determine future UK energy policy. Also how flies could help feed the world and bees find their food.

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