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World Service,04 Jun 2004,22 mins
Microfossil could rewrite History of Life on Earth
Science In ActionAvailable for over a year
A bilaterium microfossil from China could mean complex organisms evolved 50 million years earlier than previously believed. Could a super-storm caused by global warming set off a new ice age, as predicted by the Hollywood science-fiction movie, The Day After Tomorrow? Next Tuesday, the planet of Venus will cross in front of the sun in the first Transit of Venus since 1882. Can our "brain fingerprinting" implicate or exonerate us if we're suspected criminals?
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