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Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects

Material World: 18/11/2010

18/11/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, 18/11/2010

Crop breeding improved; catching anti-atoms; Tycho Brahe exhumed.

Quentin Cooper looks into the science stories of the week. Including the development of disease resistant crops, and the exhumation the body of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.

Quentin Cooper presents this week's digest of science in and behind the headlines. In this edition: the development of disease resistant crops the better to feed our swelling population; trapping anti-hydrogen atoms to unravel one of the great mysteries in physics; and exhuming the body of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe to find out whether he really died of a bladder infection.

The producer is Roland Pease.

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