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Radio 4,28 Jul 2011,30 mins

28/07/2011

Material World

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This week, Quentin Cooper asks if physicists are seeing the first signs of the elusive Higgs particle and if culling badgers really can control bovine TB. He hears how flawed diamonds give clues to the first continental drift and how the drama at the axon terminal in brain cells has inspired music. Producer: Martin Redfern.

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