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01/12/2011
The risk of thawing permafrost, space worms and DNA barcoding.
08/12/2011
Catching carbon from air, scarce elements, fossil eyes and amateur scientist candidates.
15/12/2011
The Higgs particle, pairing scientists with MPs, amateur scientists and moon art.
22/12/2011
New planets, brain chips, amateur scientists, Christmas trees and sexy robins.
29/12/2011
Revealing the four finalists competing to become the 91Èȱ¬'s Amateur Scientist of the Year.
05/01/2012
Quentin asks if the world will end in 2012 and why people make apocalyptic predictions.
12/01/2012
Teaching computer science, mapping dark matter, emerging pests and nasty noises.
19/01/2012
The world in 3D, Darwin's lost fossils, fashionable stripes, and the end of Angkor.
26/01/2012
The next flu pandemic, an Arctic bulge, faces and voices and the Panama Canal.
02/02/2012
Genome ethics, having friends takes brains, emotional art, and triggering an ice age.
09/02/2012
Quentin Cooper asks if Freud was a scientist, and reviews the week's science.
16/02/2012
Star on the brink of a supernova explosion; our global water footprint; New Elizabethans.
23/02/2012
Do men have a genetic future? Defining the kilogram and how to turn sunshine into fuel.
01/03/2012
Chief Science Advisers in Government, animals in research, and the oldest forest.
08/03/2012
Aliens in Antarctica, meteor impacts, nasty noises and star-quakes.
15/03/2012
Quentin Cooper with news of a new hominin puzzle from China, and where art meets science.
22/03/2012
The science of auctions, life on the ocean floor, and why the clock change might kill us.
29/03/2012
Gas eating bacteria, how to save the world and what stripes might do to your figure.
05/04/2012
The influence of mathematical models on the sculptor Henry Moore.
12/04/2012
Undersea earthquakes, Titanic telecommunications, and do people sound how they look?
19/04/2012
Science magazine programme.
26/04/2012
03/05/2012
10/05/2012
Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news.
17/05/2012
24/05/2012
Energy generation perceptions, light loving bugs, fast chips, and predicting earthquakes.
31/05/2012
80 years of neutrons, why helium gas isn't a laugh and horrible noises we love to hate.
07/06/2012
Legionnaires' bacteriology, why Venus is good for science and the true illusion of stripes
14/06/2012
Quentin Cooper looks at how mathematical genius Alan Turing helped form the digital age.
So You Want to Be a Scientist - the finals
Adam Rutherford presents the finals of So You Want to Be a Scientist?
28/06/2012