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World Service,28 Sep 1995,27 mins

Recreating the Earth's magnetic field

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How two geophysicists have recreated the Earth's core using a supercomputer. The scientists have used the experiment to re-create the Earth's magnetic field. Also in the programme, engineering new drugs using cyberspace and the paeleontologists who are studying newly discovered coprolites in Wales.

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