Beneath the waves lies the promise of planetary revolution

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Issues relating to the Neptune project, which aims to wire up an entire plate of the Earth's crust - the small Juan de Fuca tectonic plate which pushes east from the Pacific under the North American plate - with a grid of 30 seabed observatories linked by 3,000km of wire and serviced by robots are examined. John Delaney, professor of oceanography at the School of Oceanography at the University of Seattle in Washington, is in charge of the project, which is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and commence operations as soon as 2006. Delaney believes that the project will usher in a new era in understanding the Earth's inner workings.

Plate tectonics

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Buzz of the chase

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Kim Rossmo, former US detective working at the Texas State University's dpartment of criminal justice, and Steven Le Comber, evolutionary biologist at Queen Mary, University of London, are working together with bees to help police with inquiries into serial crimes. The pair aim to take a forensic technique designed to catch criminals, apply it to animals and feed back the experimental findings to fine-tune its use in humans.

Criminology

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Powerful change for the better

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Research chemist Tiancun Xiao at Oxford University received an innovation award from the Carbon Trust in 2005 for his development of catalysts which could power every PC, clean up greenhouse gases and convert coal to petroleum. The catalyst developed by Xiao is able to cope with methane from biomass which is often full of impurities.

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