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All Episodes

Material World — 149 episodes

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Inside Science:Bovine TB:Coral Sunscreen;Space Junk

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Material: Ancient Horses; Uncertainty; Cutlery and Taste

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MRC; Snails; Applause

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Digital spying;Dornier 17;Germination;Cheetahs

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Cheltenham Science Festival

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Multiverses;Culture-driven Evolution;Lee Smolin-Time

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Tornado;Tree health;Vaccine;Radar

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Quantum computer; Ancient water; Stem cells; Dambusters

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EU science funding;Pear-shaped nuclei;Hyades

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Bees;Petal Shapes: Heart gene therapy

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Bovine TB; Big Cat; Shark teeth

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Iranian earthquake;Zebrafish;Curiosity driver Paolo Bellutta

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Science publishing, Transatlantic turbulence, Rapid evolution

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Chemical weapons,Nuclear weapons,BRAIN,Foot and Mouth

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Edinburgh's International Science Festival

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Planck, Elusive Giant Squid, Emotive words

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Clay on Mars, Neanderthals, Cholera,Tapeworms

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Deer,Herschel,Facial contrast,Potatoes

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Junk DNA, Mine fires, Homer

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Material: DNA,Identical Twins,Dark Energy, Viruses

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Material: Coronavirus, Horsemeat, Blackbirds, DNA

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Material: TB, SATELLITES, LAKE ELLSWORTH, ANTARCTIC BASE

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Material: Rail, Radioactive, Universe, Quantum Biology.

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Material: Noise & plane design, Birdflu, Dogs, Mackerel

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Material: Smog,Exploding Stars,Animal Replacement

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Material: Kepler,Arctic Drilling,Apophis,Brain Science

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Material: Norovirus, superheroes and army underpants.

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Material 27 Dec 12: Unsung Heroes of Science

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Material: IQ tests, life on Mars, Santa up a chimney

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Material World::Prizes, Hobbits, archaeology+maths.

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Material World: Climate Talks; James Watson

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Material: Energy;Rats;Olive Oil;Romantic Chemistry

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Material: Books, Intelligent roads, Old computers 22 Nov 12

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Material World; Wood burning for energy;Super Symmetry;;Drones;Sweat

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Material: Bird deaths, Coffee, Ancient Tools

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Material World 1st Nov: Trees,1000 Genomes,Energy

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Material World 25 Oct: Earthquake, Ancient Tablets, See-through Soil

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Material World 18th Oct: Badgers, Ants and New Planets

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Material World 11th Oct: Nobel Prize Winners

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Material World 4th October 2012: Retractions

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Material World 27th September 2012: Gravity Fields

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Material World 20 September 2012: Climate computer modelling, flies and bumblebees

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Material World 13 September 2012: Social Media, Engineering, Voyager, Botany

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Material World 6 September: British Science Festival

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Material World 30 August: Piano tuners' brains, exoplanets, and chimp justice

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Material World 23rd August: Mars; bomb-proof make-up; toilets of the future; hearing loss & bird song

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Material World 16th August 2012: Parkinson's disease, brain controlled suit

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Material World: 06 Aug 12: NASA's Curiosity

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Material World 2nd Aug 2012: Phonics and neuroscience, mythical networks, and do animal have empathy?

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Material World 26th July 2012: Simulating a whole bacterium, UK tsunamis, melting Greenland ice, and herd behaviour.

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Material World 19th July 2012: Crowd funding

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Material World: Latest Airport Security Tech

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Material World: 5th July 2012: Higgs-like particle discovered and exciting new science presented at the Royal Society

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Material World: 28th June: Science publishing, science in social policy, science wins prizes and science in packaging

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Material: Material World 21 JUN 2012, SWYTBAS, The Final

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Material World:14th June The Influence of Mathematician Alan Turing, and more from ‘So you want to be a Scientist’.

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Material World 7th June 2012: Legionnaires’, Venus and stripes

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Material World 31st May 2012: 80 years of Neutrons & the horrible noises we love to hate

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Material World 24th May 2012: Perceptions of energy generation, light loving bugs, new faster chips, & not predicting earthquakes

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Material World 17th May 2012: Pollen and war crimes, art and emotion science versus politics and underground railways

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Material World 10th May 2012: Alchemy, hormones and Afghan astronomy

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Material World 3rd May 2012: North Sea wind power, Bending Gamma rays horrid noises and how to hack.

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Material World 26th April 2012: Intelligent travel, cosmic rays and voices.

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Material World 19th April: Breast cancer breakthrough, maths of politics, CT scan, SYWTBAS

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Material World 12th April :

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Material world 05 Apr Strings, spies and science

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MW 29 Mar;Gas Bacteria, Geoengineering, SYWTBAS

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Material World 22 Mar: auctions, marine pharmaceuticals, sleep

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MW 15 Mar; Hominin puzzle, Art, Robots and Avatars

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MW 8 Mar; Antarctic, Meteors, Noises, Starquakes

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Material World 01 March Science advisers, lab animals, oldest forest

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Material World 23 Feb Y-chromosome, Kilogram, Neutrinos, Fuel

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Material World 16 Feb: Star on the brink of a supernova explosion; Our global water footprint; New Elizabethans

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Material World 9 Feb Freud, Climate, Vostok, LARES

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Material World 2nd Feb 2012: A genome ethics survey, having friends takes brains, emotional art and triggering an ice age

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Material: 26 Jan The next flu pandemic, an Arctic bulge, faces and voices and the Panama Canal.

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Material World: 19 January. 3D Maps, Darwin, Do Stripes Make You Thinner and the Kharma Empire.

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Material 12 Jan 12 Computers, Dark matter, Pests

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Material 05 Jan 12 End of the World

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MW 29 Dec 11: SYWTBAS judges' meeting

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New planets, brain chips, amateur scientists, Christmas trees and robins - 22 Dec 11

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The Higgs, MPs Meet Scientists, Moon art – 15 Dec 11

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Rare Metals, Collecting Carbon, Strange Shrimp - 08 Dec 11

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Permafrost; Space Worms; DNA Barcoding - 01 Dec 11

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Material: 24 Nov 11: Scientists on risk, Insect flight

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MW: Geo-engineering; Mars; Canary Island 17 Nov 11

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Fracking; Hidden Heroes; SYWTBAS? Periodic Knitting

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Fission at Fukushima; Airships – The Future of Air Travel; Legend of the Sunstone

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Material World at the National Maritime Museum.

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EU stem cell ruling, The Population Process, Viruses, SYWTBAS?

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Stem cells, Black Death,Lawrence M Krauss and KickSat project

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Nobel Prizes 2011

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'So you want to be a Scientist?', Neutrinos faster than light and Catalytic clothing

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Ehsan Masood on biodiversity, slippery surfaces, drugs from ladybirds and fire.

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Quentin reports from the British Science Festival in Bradford on new discoveries in science.

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Quentin on human ancestry, beautiful genomes and gold from the sky.

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Hand axes, New lithium batteries, Cloning wildcats, The moon

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Oldest fossils, Tracking cholera, Playing with uncertainty and Counting species.

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Jaws, Plesiosaurs, Time perception, Surgery, Bees

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Material: Mob psychology, multiple sclerosis, chimp communication and shrunken heads.

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Material: Quentin on Milgram’s Obedience Studies, the science behind illusioneering and our lopsided moon.

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Material World: Searching for Higgs, badger cull, diamonds, music and neuroscience

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Material World

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Material World: Hidden landscapes, Mythical monsters and Tibetan singing bowls.

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Krill, Royal Society sensations, Science of body art

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Climate models, Early universe, Happy faces, Mobile Phones

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Material World: City stress, Darwin's library, science/health reporting

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Material World: Ocean Drilling, Future technology for air planes, Dreams and Oxford English Dictionary

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Heart, Neolithic Building Boom, Amber

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Material: new E-coli strain, Teeth, science innovation, zero gravity

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Icelandic eruption, Electron shape, Urban gardens

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Smallpox, Colour photograph, Higgs Higgs!

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Material: New epoch, Fungi discovery, Domesday Project

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Einstein proved right; how fat can cause dementia; the science of tornadoes; and mapping English orchards

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Ocean tea, Shuttle search for antimatter, Cosmati Pavement, Robot ethics

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Material World: Deepwater Horizon, Chernobyl, Penguin clean up, Saturn

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Material World: Fossils, Biofab, Harrison Timekeeping, Gagarin

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Material World: Pre-pregnancy screening, mathematics of Life, scientific travel archive

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Material: Japan, Beaked whales, Birds, Sergei Korolyov

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Material: Japan, Penguins, Films, Sports Science 24 Mar 11

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Material: Japan Nuclear Power Crisis

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Material: Space, Daffodils, Watt, Ig Nobel 110.03.11

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Material: Women, Meteorites, Squirrels 03 03 11

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Material: Earthquake, Squirrels, Carbon animals, RHS 24 Feb 11

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Material: Human impact on flooding, Van Gogh’s fading paint, Tempel 1, Solar flare 17 Feb 11

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Material: Science in Egypt, Marine Invaders, Climate change, Flea jumping

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Material: Cyclone,Extrasolar Sys,Ramsay,Lake Vostok

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Material: Oldest galaxy; Living art; Back to bed bugs & Chemical engineering

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Material: UK Swine flu autopsies, Genetic study of bed bugs, Science out of the classroom 20 Jan 11

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Material: Medical Research bureaucracy, Corruption and Earthquakes, Music Moods

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Material: International Year of Chemistry

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Material: So You Want to be a Scientist catch-up 30 Dec 10

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Material: New Hominid; Einstein; Cooking for Geeks 23 Dec 10

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Material: Science and Disasters, Deepwater Horizon, Haiti Earthquake 16 Dec 2010

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Material: Drugs policy, Space travel and Genome sequencers

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Material: Cold weather, African self-sufficiency, Maple seed flight, Red dwarfs; 02 Dec 10

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Material: Recession and a warming world, Liquid Universe, Stranded cetaceans, Alan Turing; 25 Nov 10

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Material: fighting crop disease, anti-matter, Tycho Brahe 18 Nov 2010

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Material: Large Hadron Collider, snow and global warming, invisible material 11 Nov 2010

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Material: Space Station; Dragonflies; Turbine 04 Nov 2010

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Material: Indonesia Tsunami; Merapi Volcano; Space Tourism; First Electronics 28 Oct 10

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Material: Science & The Spending Review 21 Oct 2010

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Material: Stem cell trials, Archaeology & human remains, Interplanetary encounters: 14 Oct 2010

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Material: Nobel Prizes, the Sun & climate 07 Oct 2010

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Material: Gliese 581 g, Dry water, Mobile and internet use, Crick 30 Sep 2010

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Material: Sept 23rd 2010

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Material: So You Want To Be A Scientist Final

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Material: 9th September 2010

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Material: Cluster Mission, SYWTBAS Update, Bioconcrete, Fruit Flies 02 Sep 10