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World Service,09 Oct 2004,22 mins

Dyslexia is not the same in all Languages

Science In Action

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Researchers into dyslexia in Mandarin-speaking children find it is located in a different part of the brain to dyslexia in children speaking an alphabet-based language. Breakthrough in atomic time-keeping with miniature clocks accurate to one second in 300 years. Report on the overlap between science and the arts in the presentations at Britain's annual Science Festival, in Exeter.

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