Leading Edge
Geoff Watts explores the world of science and the people, passions and policies behind it
Leading Edge - 01/03/2007
Geoff Watts visits the UK's first low temperature experimental facility in Bristol.
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Leading Edge - 01/10/2009
Geoff Watts meets Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, head of the Medical Research Council, and hears about his passions and priorities for basic research.
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Leading Edge - 01/11/2007
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 02/07/2009
As international science journalists meet in London, Geoff Watts examines progress towards greater public engagement with science.
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Leading Edge - 02/10/2008
Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 03/04/2008
Geoff Watts analyses the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 03/07/2008
Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 03/09/2009
Geoff Watts meets Lord May, President of the British Science Association, and visits a 'Pestival' of insect art London's South Bank.
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Leading Edge - 04/06/2009
Geoff Watts examines attitudes to Darwin and his theory of evolution, both during his own time and in the present.
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Leading Edge - 05/11/2009
Geoff Watts meets the meteorite hunters who are uncovering the secrets of the formation of our solar system.
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Leading Edge - 06/03/2008
Geoff Watts analyses the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 06/12/2007
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 08/03/2007
Geoff Watts hears how the Japanese space agency is giving the International Space Station renewed impetus.
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Leading Edge - 08/10/2009
Geoff Watts investigates life on the edge in extreme polar environments, and the perils facing scientists who study it.
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Leading Edge - 08/11/2007
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 09/07/2009
Geoff Watts explores genomic medicine, biomedical science and the future of gene sequencing with his guests including Jane Rogers, Professor Sir John Bell and Lord Paul Drayson.
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Leading Edge - 09/10/2008
Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 10/04/2008
Geoff Watts analyses the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 10/07/2008
Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 10/09/2009
As the British Science Association holds its annual Festival in Guildford, Geoff Watts discusses our creative brains and controversy in science education.
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Leading Edge - 11/06/2009
Geoff Watts asks if science can be creative - is it open to new ideas, or does the peer review process only fund and publish work that supports the status quo?
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Leading Edge - 12/04/2007
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 12/06/2008
Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of science and technology. Including a report on how the wine industry is coping with climate change.
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Leading Edge - 12/11/2009
Geoff Watts travels back in time and beneath the waves in search of a lost city under the Mediterranean, and Sir John Franklin's ships beneath the North West Passage.
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Leading Edge - 13/03/2008
Geoff Watts analyses the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 13/12/2007
Geoff Watts talks to a Bristol palaeontologist who reconstructed a dinosaur from a collection of long-forgotten fossils discovered a decade ago in North Africa.
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Leading Edge - 14/02/2008
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 15/03/2007
Geoff Watts investigates a new microscopic imaging technique which enables researchers to see real-time activity of our immune cells in action.
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Leading Edge - 15/10/2009
Geoff Watts meets Richard Holmes, winner of the 2009 Science Book Prize, and hears how history and biography can reveal the workings of science.
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Leading Edge - 15/11/2007
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 17/07/2008
Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 17/09/2009
Geoff Watts talks to anthropologist Tim Ingold, who has lived with reindeer herders in Lapland, and is now working to discover how to live truly sustainable lives.
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Leading Edge - 18/06/2009
Geoff Watts looks into the science of seasonality in plants, animals and ourselves.
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Leading Edge - 19/04/2007
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 19/06/2008
Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 19/11/2009
Geoff Watts hears about the golden age of astronomy, the future of space exploration and the realities of forensic crime detection.
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Leading Edge - 20/03/2008
Geoff Watts analyses the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 21/02/2008
Geoff Watts analyses the latest stories from the world of science and technology. He also reports from the annual meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science.
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Leading Edge - 21/05/2009
Geoff Watts is joined by the government's Chief Scientific Advisor, Prof John Beddington, who is worried that rising demand for food, water and energy will produce a future crisis.
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Leading Edge - 22/02/2007
Geoff Watts reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Leading Edge - 22/03/2007
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 22/10/2009
Geoff Watts meets robotics expert Professor Noel Sharkey and explores the relationship between humans and robots past, present and future, and its ethical implications.
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Leading Edge - 22/11/2007
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 24/07/2008
Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 24/09/2009
Geoff Watts asks why we have musical minds, how music offers insights into the human brain and how it can help us make the most of our minds.
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Leading Edge - 25/06/2009
Geoff Watts meets Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society, who shares his perspective on how he has adapted to the role and its influence on the international stage.
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Leading Edge - 25/10/2007
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 26/06/2008
Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 26/11/2009
Geoff Watts examines the impact of Darwin's On The Origin of Species on science, society and religion, then and now, on the 150th anniversary of its publication.
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Leading Edge - 27/03/2008
Geoff Watts analyses the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 28/02/2008
Geoff Watts analyses the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 28/05/2009
Geoff Watts finds out why people need to fly into space and the use of scientific experiments in weightlessness.
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Leading Edge - 29/03/2007
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 29/10/2009
Geoff Watts investigates the shady world of nuclear weapons testing and asks how UN inspectors can tell if there has been an illegal underground test.
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Leading Edge - 29/11/2007
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - 31/07/2008
Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - Episode 1
Geoff Watts accompanies a group of Danish scientists to Greenland. Using satellite tagging technology, they are hoping to solve the mystery of the migratory habits of the walrus.
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Leading Edge - Episode 2
Jonathan Stewart visits the Great Barrier Reef and hears from scientists how this incredible living structure is providing key evidence in the debate about climate change.
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Leading Edge - Episode 3
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - Episode 4
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - Episode 5
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - Episode 6
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - Episode 7
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - Episode 7
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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Leading Edge - Episode 8
Geoff Watts reports on the latest stories from the world of science and technology.
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