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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

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Material World: 20/09/2012

20/09/2012

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Climate computer modelling and its use in determining future UK energy policy.

Quentin Cooper explores the use of climate computer modelling to determine future UK energy policy, how flies could help feed the world and how bees find their food.

Quentin Cooper asks how climate computer modelling is being used to determine future UK energy policy. Also on the programme how flies could help feed livestock; could growing protein on larvae be an ingenious solution to food shortages? And how bumblebees find their food in the wild - the first study to look at their behaviour outside the laboratory.

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