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2.00 Science Shack
Adam Hart-Davis builds progressively bigger and better flying machines.

2.30 Lab Detectives
Scientific sleuths use microscopic analysis to match fibres from a crime scene to a suspect's clothes.

2.45 Background Brief: Our Biggest Smallest Threat?
A virus that could kill like HIV and travel like flu - Hollywood invention or a possible real-life scenario?

3.00 Sickle Cell Disease - a Lethal Advantage
Why is the potentially fatal condition so common among people of African origin?

3.30 The Ageing Files
A 70-year-old fashion model and her granddaughter help reveal how growing older affects us all.

4.00 The Addiction Files
Social, psychological, physiological, molecular and genetic views of addiction.

4.30 Mind Readers
Did one of the world's largest televised experiments really reveal important differences in the way men and women perceive emotions?

5.00 In Search of Syphilis
A skeleton provides new insights into the origins of the "great pox" of the 15th century.

5.30 Rough Science
Can the team create an underwater light to examine tropical marine life?

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Presenter (Science Shack):
Adam Hart-Davis

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