Material World announces the return of 'So You Want to Be a Scientist?' - the search for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year. Also neutrinos faster than light and catalytic clothing.

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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 29.09.2011'So you want to be a Scientist?', Neutrinos faster than light and Catalytic clothing
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Folge vom 22.09.2011Ehsan Masood on biodiversity, slippery surfaces, drugs from ladybirds and fire.Ehsan Masood reports on attempts to protect biodiversity, to mimic the slippery slope of the pitcher plant, to isolate new drugs from the harlequin ladybird and to be ready for the next big wildfires.
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Folge vom 15.09.2011Quentin reports from the British Science Festival in Bradford on new discoveries in science.Quentin reports from the British Science Festival in Bradford on thorium reactors, plants to clean up explosives, lie detection, ethical tissue and artificial volcanoes to counter global warming.
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Folge vom 08.09.2011Quentin on human ancestry, beautiful genomes and gold from the sky.Quentin reports on a possible human ancestor, beautiful genomes and what happened to all the gold on – or in - Earth. Quentin Cooper hears about the fossils of a small but surprisingly well-formed possible human ancestor from South Africa; how one writer has come to understand and live with her beautiful genome; and how all the gold we can mine once rained down from above.