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08/04/2010

Quentin Cooper looks at a tsunami simulator to test how buildings can resist powerful waves created by earthquakes. Plus how first flowerings reveal effects of climate change.

As colour returns to gardens across the country after the long cold winter, Quentin Cooper hears how records from two and a half centuries of nature-watching reveal the gradual advance of spring, and what this says about climate change.

Also in the programme, the UK team who have built a tsunami simulator to see how buildings can best resist the powerful seawaves created by earthquakes.

Nanoelectronics are brought a step closer with a new kind of digital logic.

And we hear from more potential participants in Radio 4's "So You Want to be a Scientist" talent search.

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30 minutes

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Mon 12 Apr 2010 21:00

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  • Thu 8 Apr 2010 16:30
  • Mon 12 Apr 2010 21:00

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