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    Telomeres and the Ageing Process

    Does the decay of the teleomeres on the ends of our chromosomes cause ageing?

  2. Tastes Like Sugar: Artificial Sweetners

    Successful artificial sweetners must replace both taste and bulk of sugar in our diets

  3. Targeting the Mosquito in the fight against Malaria

    Will the mosquito genome help malaria researchers beat the disease?

  4. 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

  5. Super-fast Microchip that uses Magnetic Fields

    A super-fast microchip that uses magnetic fields to power its processing

  6. Submarine Wrecks with Nuclear Weapons on board

    What should be done about decaying Russian nuclear weapons on the bottom of the sea?

  7. Study finds Cloned Cows to be Normal

    Study shows cloned cattled healthy and normal after four years

  8. Step forward for Synthetic Biology

    Significant development in synthetic biology reignites debate over creating new lifeforms

  9. Starving Mosquito Larvae to stop Malaria

    One of the mosquito's own digestive hormones could be used against it

  10. Starlight challenges Einstein's Theory

    Light from distant quasars challenges Einstein's theory of relativity

  11. Stargazing in the International Year of Astronomy

    The International Year of Astronomy aims to inspire a new generation of stargazers

  12. Spot the Solar Flares

    The Sun is producing massive solar flares causing magnetic storms

  13. Speaking with Machines

    Text-to-speech synthesisers and communicating with machines

  14. Space Walk to Work on the Hubble Space Telescope

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

  15. Space probe sent to check Einstein's Theory

    Gravity Probe B sent to check Einstein's theory 鈥� and will have the results in 18 months

  16. Space Missions Accomplished

    Nasa probes send reports back from a comet and an asteroid

  17. Space Mirrors that could Light up the Earth

    A 25-metre giant space mirror to reflect light from the Sun back to Earth

  18. South Africans call for more proof that HIV causes Aids

    Some South African scientists want more proof that HIV causes Aids

  19. Soil Microbes involved in Global Warming

    Global warming is speeding up the activity of soil microbes

  20. Soho Probe unlocks Secrets of the Sun

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

  21. Soap Companies in a Lather

    The big question about new low-temperature washing detergent: does it rot your knickers?

  22. So you want to be a Weapons Inspector

    What qualifications do weapons inspectors need?

  23. Small Feathered Dinosaur Found in China

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

  24. Sleeping with the Light off is good for our Eyes

    Babies who sleep with the light on may be more likely to grow up to be near-sighted

  25. Skin Cancers caused by Sunshine

    Sunshine causes more cancers than any other agent in the world

  26. Simple Test Kit for Genital Herpes

    Simple blood test kit shows if you have been exposed to genital herpes infection

  27. Signs of Life on Mars?

    Does the Mars Express data really show us signs of life on the red planet?

  28. Signals from our Armpits

    Women's armpits give off pheronomes, odourless messages about their menstrual cycle

  29. Showing off on the Nano-Guitar

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

  30. Should Museums return ancestral Human Remains?

    Requests for repatriation of human remains from scientific collections raise concerns

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