Science In Action Episodes Episode guide
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Foetal gene therapy trials on Monkeys
Foetal gene therapy demonstrated in macaque monkeys
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Flight or Fight?
How the brain's amygdala helps us recognise danger and respond
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Flesh-Eating Infections that never went away
Causes of recent outbreaks of deadly necrotising faciitis infections
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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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First success for the Stand Up and Walk project
Stand Up and Walk is a EU project to help paralysed people walk again
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First Magma Chamber discovered
Geologists in Hawaii have accidentally become the first to drill into magma chamber
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First List of Threatened Plant Species
Plants at risk list declares one in eight of the world's plants to be under threat
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First Flock of Cloned Sheep
Could humans be next after scientists produce first cloned sheep?
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First Chinese Astronaut
China's first manned space flight, Shenzhou 5, is a success
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Festival of Science returns to York
Scientists share their findings at the British Association's Festival of Science
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Feathered Dinosaur fossil in China
A feathered dinosaur, 130 million years old, discovered in China
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Farming with Waste Water
How to make safe the food grown with polluted waste water in the developing world?
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Family genetic Samples in criminal Investigations?
Concerns over using DNA analysis of families in criminal investigations
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Face to face with a Roman lady in London
The forensically reconstructed head of a Roman lady discovered in London goes on show
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Experiments support ESP
Extra-sensory perception or sensory transfer effect has been detected in the laboratory
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Exoplanets and their 'wobbly' Stars
Discovery of exoplanets, small planets beyond our solar system
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Evidence of prehistoric Family Life
DNA provides the earliest "molecular evidence" of family life
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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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Evidence of a Tsunami 600 years ago
A tsunami struck in the Indian Ocean 600 years ago, say geologists
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Ethical Debates fired by Human Cloning Project Proposed in USA
If human cloning becomes possible, could it be regulated effectively?
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Enzyme that makes Cancer Cells 'immortal'
How cancer cells keep reproducing because their genes are protected by telomerase enzyme
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Engraved Symbols are Key to ancient Thinking
New evidence of how humans might have evolved abstract thought many thousands of years ago
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Engineering lessons from Earthquakes
Engineers will visit Taiwan to study the aftermath of this week's earthquake
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Endangered Amphibians
More than one third of the world's amphibian species are endangered
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Emerging infectious Diseases
The incidence of emerging infectious disease is increasing
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Ebola Fever Outbreak in Zaire
How infectious is the ebola virus and where did it come from?
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Eavesdropping on Elephants
Eavesdropping on elephant conversations in the wild
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Eat Less, Live Longer
The biochemistry behind "Eat less, live longer!"
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Earthquake warning for the Himalayan region
Warning of giant earthquakes for the Himalayan region
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Early Forest inhabitants of South America
Ancient South American forest dwellers' culture excavated in painted cave