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Super stethoscope


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 6, 2009 | 2:33 am PST
How FBI technology is driving a medical advance

US vows 'huge' marine protection


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 5, 2009 | 7:10 pm PST
The US is to establish "the largest area of protected sea in the world", banning fishing and mining, around its Pacific islands.

Japanese whaler reported missing


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 5, 2009 | 6:22 pm PST
Rescuers hold out little hope of finding a Japanese sailor alive after he goes missing from a whaling ship in the Antarctic.

Pink iguana rewrites family tree


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 5, 2009 | 2:26 pm PST
A type of iguana missed by Darwin during his Galapagos trip promises to rewrite the animal's history in the islands.

Holes give edge to new MoD armour


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 5, 2009 | 10:08 am PST
Scientists from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have devised ultra-hard vehicle armour to protect military personnel.

Going up


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 5, 2009 | 8:53 am PST
How a broomstick gave space elevators a lift

Vision chips


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 5, 2009 | 2:36 am PST
Mobile phone chips prepare for a generational shift

Scientists dismiss 'detox myth'


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 4, 2009 | 6:35 pm PST
Products that claim to help the body "detox" are often based on meaningless claims, scientists warn.

Cancer cells 'cheat suicide call'


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 4, 2009 | 6:09 pm PST
Cancer cells are able to escape death by reversing a process which triggers suicide in normal cells, scientists have shown.

Fence hope for Tasmanian Devils


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 4, 2009 | 5:20 pm PST
Scientists want to build a fence on Tasmania to prevent the spread of a cancer that could wipe out the Tasmanian Devil.

Leading light


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 4, 2009 | 2:18 pm PST
The Islamic genius working 700 years before Newton

Nano device 'times drug release'


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 3, 2009 | 4:04 pm PST
Researchers say they can harness the power of gold nanoparticles to devise a better way of delivering drugs to patients.

Mars rovers roll on to five years


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 3, 2009 | 1:27 am PST
The US space agency's Mars rovers celebrate a longer-than-expected five years investigating the Red Planet.

Stolen species


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 2, 2009 | 10:03 am PST
BBC joins police raid on Brazil's wildlife traffickers

Mammoth clues


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 2, 2009 | 9:27 am PST
Did space impacts wipe out the woolly beasts?

Coral reef growth is slowest ever


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 2, 2009 | 5:53 am PST
Growth of corals in the Great Barrier Reef has slowed to the most sluggish rate in 400 years, researchers say.

Nanotech could sharpen snaps


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 2, 2009 | 5:11 am PST
Research into creating tiny structures on light sensors could mean digital cameras take better pictures.

'Bug' could combat dengue fever


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Jan 1, 2009 | 6:11 pm PST
Humans could be protected from dengue fever by infecting the mosquitoes carrying it with a parasite, say researchers.

China finds major dinosaur site


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Dec 31, 2008 | 9:44 am PST
Chinese researchers have unearthed what they believe is the largest collection of dinosaur bones ever found.

Science blow for Scots in 2008


BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition Dec 31, 2008 | 4:25 am PST
BBC Scotland education correspondent Seonag Mackinnon looks back at the major issues of 2008.

 

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