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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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New Sign Language Reveals Role of Learning
At a school in Nicaragua, deaf children have been creating their own unique sign language, providing a rare opportunity to study how languages evolve.
It seems children have the ability to give language its fundamental universal features.
Tilt Test to Spot Autism Early
Careful analysis of a collection of home videos has shown that babies who later developed autism don't keep their head straight when their bodies are tilted.
This simple test could be used to screen for the condition when babies are just six months old.
Sending Messages from the Ocean Floor
Neptune, an undersea laboratory the size of Kansas, will soon be built off the Pacific coast of North America.
Linked by 3000 kilometres of cable, it's set to revolutionise our understanding of the ocean floor.
As the pilot project to this ambitious project takes shape, Leading Edge joins some of the scientists out at sea as they toss the cables overboard.
Nanotunes
Geoff Watts hears about the latest advance in nanotube technology: making them sing.
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RELATED LINKS
Columbia University - Nicaraguan sign language
University of Florida - Autism
The National Autistic Society
BBC Health - Autism
MARS - Monterey Accelerated Research System
MBARI - Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
NEPTUNE
Nanotube
BBC Science & Nature
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