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Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines

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: 28/07/2011

28/07/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, 28/07/2011

New clues to Higgs, badgers and bovine TB and diamond clues to the deep Earth.

Quentin hears how scientists are closing in on the Higgs particle, if culling badgers is scientific, how diamonds reveal the first continental drift and how neurons inspire music.

This week, Quentin Cooper asks if physicists are seeing the first signs of the elusive Higgs particle and if culling badgers really can control bovine TB. He hears how flawed diamonds give clues to the first continental drift and how the drama at the axon terminal in brain cells has inspired music.

Producer: Martin Redfern.

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