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World Service,23 Jan 2004,22 mins

The Indian Ocean's mountainous Ecology

Science In Action

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Conference on the ecology of the western Indian Ocean – climate, currents and the interaction of ocean floor with ocean processes, including the role of the major under-sea mountain range, the Mascarene Plateau. Investigating geophysics of the Earth's core in Latvia and California. Harvard scientists are working on a cheap, battery-powered HIV blood testing device with the equivalent of a whole lab on a microchip.

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