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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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Supernova SN1987a.
Image courtesy of AURA/NASA/STScI |
Watching stars explode
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Astronomers around the world have turned their telescopes in anticipation of an imminent supernova.ÌýÌý
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A series of x-ray flashes detected last month are thought to be early warning signs of these dramatic stellar explosions.
Sweet smell of successÌý
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When you smell the sweet scent of a rose, your nose is wrestling with about 260 different odours.
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Thanks to this week's winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, researchers are now uncovering the genes responsible for this little known human sense.
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Sex inequality in underwaterÌý wormsÌý
A highly unusual, new species of worm has been found at the bottom of the ocean.ÌýÌý
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The males, who are considerably smaller than the females, live inside their partners, in groups of 50 or 100.Ìý
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When north becomes south
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Every so often, geologically speaking, the polarity of the earth's magnetic field reverses.Ìý
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Could recent dramatic dips in the earth's magnetism signal the beginning of another switch - an event not seen on this planet for nearly a million years?
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