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World Service,18 Dec 1998,28 mins

What's the Speed of the Universe got to do with Everything?

Science In Action

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Why has the journal Science named the 'Expanding Universe' as its Breakthrough of the Year? Delegates to the British Psychological Society conference, discuss their research into subjects like pheronomes, a new Gulf War Syndrome theory, and phantom sensations. Weather satellites might help predict volcanic eruptions. How the future of the Earth might one day depend on mining helium-3 on the Moon.

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