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Radio 4,18 Nov 2010,30 mins

18/11/2010

Material World

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Quentin Cooper presents this week's digest of science in and behind the headlines. In this edition: the development of disease resistant crops the better to feed our swelling population; trapping anti-hydrogen atoms to unravel one of the great mysteries in physics; and exhuming the body of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe to find out whether he really died of a bladder infection. The producer is Roland Pease.

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