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World Service,08 Apr 1994,27 mins

Meet our closest galactic Neighbour

Science In Action

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Galactic neighbours; a new form of treatment for bowel cancer; Concorde report into AZT; malaria researcher honoured; sight conditions, lifestyle and age; Alzheimer's disease triggers; Arthur C Clarke, visionary science-fiction writer, opens Scottish Science Festival – "Science and technology are now the two main driving forces shaping our future, far more so than politics or ideology, important though these are."

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