VIDEO: I'm a teacher - no beard required

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This prevents the penetration of girls science and technology?

31 March 2014 Last updated on 07:39 BST

The government wants to encourage the growth of science and technology, but a study in 2013 suggested that more than 40,000 graduates needed per year.

Search the campaign group ScienceGrrl said to break cultural barriers in the classroom, getting more girls for school subjects could be the answer.

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VIDEO: Meet beatboxer, which sounds like a bird

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Meet beatboxer, which sounds like a bird

29 March 2014 Last updated at 10:50 GMT

Birds singing in the trees is one of the hallmarks of spring, but the inhabitants of the city are generally more likely to traffic noise.

According to the National Trust, almost half of the people in cities, they feel comfortable enough to receive to enjoy the outdoors, and came out with an album with sounds of animals and insects, to try to change that.

The music was not produced by animals, but beatboxer Jason Singh, who spoke to BBC Breakfast to explain why inspired by birdsong - and show off your skills to mimic our feathered friends.

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VIDEO: "A profound misunderstanding of genetics"

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Professor Steve Jones: genetics, upbringing and Boris Johnson

26 March 2014 Last updated at 11:23 GMT

Boris Johnson said a box of cereal shaking, making it easier for "some cornflakes in order to reach the top" when he spoke of CI schools and grammar.

But on a personal film for the everyday politics, Professor Steve Jones, the Mayor of London said it had a "profound misunderstanding of genetics", and spoke of the interaction between nature and culture.

Professor Jones discuss his film with members Soubry Anna and Emma Reynolds on Daily Politics Wednesday at 00.40 clock GMT on BBC Two, which will be for seven days on iPlayer.

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VIDEO: Welcome to Mars on Earth

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Mars on Earth: sandbox created the Red Planet

27 March 2014 Last updated at 14:02 GMT clock

Airbus has a huge sandpit in Stevenage built to imitate the surface of Mars.

The box the size of a basketball court can be used to test in Europe sent to Mars in 2018 mobile systems.

ExoMars , as we know, will be commissioned a six-wheeled robot with a search for signs of past or present life.

Richard Lancaster, navigation and control analyst for the ExoMars project, the BBC offers a guided tour within Stevenage own version of the red planet to visit, and how it is used to test the phone.

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VIDEO: Soyuz to the ISS

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Soyuz launch to ISS

25 March 2014 Last updated 23:42 GMT

A Soyuz spacecraft was launched in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station.

Astronaut Steve Swanson cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev and are safe in orbit.

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VIDEO: Inside a radar measurement of rain

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Climate future: within a radar measurement of rain

25 March 2014 Last update 16:49 GMT clock

Editor David Shukman BBC science discussed, like the rain in the air is calculated with the aid of a radar system.

British winter may be warmer and wetter than the past, but the cold weather is not yet scheduled, said the UK Met Office.

Dorset Tower is part of a network of 15 radars in the UK.

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VIDEO: pictures of the inside of a flying insect

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3D flying insects: pictures of the inside of the fly caught

26 March 2014 Last updated at 10:08 GMT

A team of scientists from the University of Oxford, Imperial College and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland have an X-ray film used in a very intense flying insects.

The film is a 3D reconstruction, consisting of several X-ray images showing the theft of a motor Bumblebee - Anatomy of the powers of flight.

The researchers say that the videos offer a glimpse into the inner workings of the most complex mechanisms of nature.

Dr. Simon Walker, the group of flying animals Oxford told the BBC: "We hope that this research [show] that developed in the design of micromechanical systems, including micro air vehicles to replicate the flying insects."

The results are in the journal PLoS Biology .

Video courtesy of Simon Walker, University of Oxford

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