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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: 18/08/2011

18/08/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, 18/08/2011

Brainy bees, feeling surgery, jaws, baby plesiosaurs and time perception.

Quentin looks at tactile surgery, brainy bees, the evolution of jaws, viviparous sea monsters and our split-second perception of time.

This week Quentin Cooper feels his way round a new aid to keyhole surgery, tracks brainy bees from flower to flower and wonders how they do it so efficiently. He hears how unblocking the nose of a primitive fish enabled vertebrates to develop jaws, how plesiosaurs may have been caring parents, and how we perceive passing time in a blink of an eye.

Producer: Martin Redfern.

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