The story of leptin is told on the BBC Science programme Horizon.
Well done BBC for this inspiring piece and I am sure that the BBC science festival from Makerere University will be a success!
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"He was not a professionally trained astronomer and yet did professional quality work, particularly when it came to mapping the Moon in the 1950s - I think every astronomer in the world owes something to Patrick Moore, " said ex-BBC science correspondent and fellow astronomer Dr David Whitehouse .
The timing of the glitch would frustrate Nasa as Curiosity had just begun analysing rock samples, the BBC's science correspondent, Jonathan Amos, said.
But BBC News Online science editor David Whitehouse says that if contact with Mir is lost for an extended period, it will start to spin, and it would become impossible for a rescue team to dock.
However, BBC News Online science editor David Whitehouse said a report due next week on the loss of the spacecraft would be one of the most damning in Nasa's history, and was likely to catalogue many failures.
"This particular dinosaur is a bit more distantly related to birds - it's a more primitive dinosaur... it indicates wings evolved earlier than previously thought, " she told the BBC World Service programme Science in Action.
Throughout the 1990s, she worked on the production teams of BBC TV's Tomorrow's World, Radio 4's Woman's Hour and BBC World TV's Science World , but always returning to World Service.
"We're on a moving boat and we don't have too much space to manoeuvre, to let the helicopter land, so it can be quite dangerous, " Dr Acevedo-Whitehouse told the BBC World Service's Science In Action programme.
Hear more about the study on Science in Action on the BBC World Service.
You can hear more from the researchers on Science In Action on the BBC World Service, Thursday at 19:30 GMT.
He has appeared on major media including CNN, C-SPAN, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, NBC, ABC, and NPR.
The OU will concentrate on creating more "mainstream" science and arts programmes for BBC One and BBC Two - rather than the specialist late-night programmes of old - to encourage a wider audience into higher education.
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Ivan's last job was as a science and technology writer on the BBC News website.
However, Doctor Abdul-Kallek Abdulla, a professor of political science in the UAE, told BBC Radio Five Live there was no proof to support the torture claims and "absolutely no truth" to the allegations heard in the British media.
You can see more on The Aspirin Debate - with Newsnight's science editor, Susan Watts, on BBC Two at 22:30 BST on Monday.
While some improvements have been made since that first image of pentacene, lead author of the Science study, Leo Gross, told BBC News that the new work was mostly down to a choice of subject.
BBC: Atomic bond types discernible in single-molecule images
"It's brilliant to be able to bring this exhibition to the Science Museum, " the enthusiastic Mr Taylor told BBC News Online.
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Professor Jim Iley, executive director of science and education at the Royal Society of Chemistry told BBC News that gaps in data meant there was still a "degree of uncertainty" about the impact of the chemicals.
"We have had very detailed mapping of that basin from images, from orbital spectral data, but we have not had high-resolution of its interior structure, " Grail's chief scientist, Prof Maria Zuber, who has been speaking at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas, told BBC News.
BBC: Nasa reveals new information about moon probes crash sites
The BBC News Channel will focus on breaking news, with less coverage of arts, culture and science.
"Participation with environmental science and natural history has a long history, especially in Britain, long before it was termed 'citizen science', " project leader Dr Helen Roy, an ecologist from the CEH, told BBC News.
After (in our opinion) a too long delay, BBC America is ready to launch its HD simulcast July 20, getting things kicked off with a load of science fiction programming for the summer.
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