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World Service,18 Apr 2002,24 mins

How Argentine Ants have colonised Europe

Science In Action

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Why the billions of Argentine ants that have colonised Europe should be regarded as a "super colony", all working together. How the sequence of the human genome could help India medically and economically. A new biography of Andrei Sakharov, Soviet nuclear scientist and dissident. Why scientists are digging for bacteria near graveyards. A material which could stop the problem of sweaty armpits.

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