Piano Tuners’ brains change over the course of their career, a solar system with two suns is discovered, geological unconformity on Mars, and chimps don’t do justice.

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Weekly science conversation, on everything from archaeology to zoology, from abacus to the antipodean rodent zyzomys, by way of meteorites. Presented by Quentin Cooper, and airing every Thursday, 4:30 pm.
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Folge vom 30.08.2012Material World 30 August: Piano tuners' brains, exoplanets, and chimp justice
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Folge vom 23.08.2012Material World 23rd August: Mars; bomb-proof make-up; toilets of the future; hearing loss & bird songQuentin Cooper puts the peregrine among the pigeons and asks whether age-related hearing loss means birds with high song are missed off the all-important British bird surveys
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Folge vom 16.08.2012Material World 16th August 2012: Parkinson's disease, brain controlled suitHow a child with total paralysis could kick a football using a brain-controlled suit and the study of radiation impact on animals and plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima.
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Folge vom 06.08.2012Material World: 06 Aug 12: NASA's CuriosityQuentin Cooper reports on the latest surface rover mission to Mars - NASA's Curiosity - twice as long, twice the science, and five times as heavy as its famous forebears.