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| | | Leading Edge brings you the latest news from the world of science. Geoff Watts celebrates discoveries as soon as they're being talked about - on the internet, in coffee rooms and bars; often before they're published in journals. And he gets to grips with not just the science, but with the controversies and conversation that surround it.
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"If what interests you are new and exciting ideas, it's science you should be turning to. And whether it's the Human Genome Project or the origins of the Universe, Leading Edge is the place to hear about them."
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Getting around
London cabbies are famed for their navigational abilities, but how do they do it? New research involving human volunteers to play a taxi-based computer game shows how landmarks and locations can trigger key brain cells into action.
Eruptions on the Red Planet
Why are volcanoes on Mars so big? Michael Manga has the answer - with help of temperature controlled vats of golden syrup to simulate movement below the planet's surface.
Raising the Dark Age
The oldest boat so far discovered in the Solent is seeing the light of day as archaeologists raise it from the intertidal shores of Langstone Harbour. The wooden canoe, hollowed out of an oak tree trunk, dates back to 500AD and is only the second dugout to be found in the Solent since the 1880s.
The secrets of sexual attraction
Scientists have been chasing pheromone receptors in animals for a long time with little success. For the first time in any animal, researchers from Duke University Medical Center have linked a single receptor of these chemical signals of attraction in the fruit fly to a specific sexual behavior.
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