Personality traits of Beijing children born under China's One Child Policy; Genetic susceptibility to deadly visceral Leishmaniasis; Nano robotic molecule building machine
Roland Pease is joined by BBC space correspondent Jonathan Amos and astronomer Marek Kukula to look back at the astronomical high points of 2012 and gaze forward into space for the coming year.
Overuse of phosphorus in Amazonian soybean fields; Problems drilling into Lake Ellsworth in Antarctica; Synthetic biology provides new approach to treating metabolic syndrome
Highlights from the American Geophysical Union annual meeting - a new Mars rover from NASA, Virgin's SpaceShipTwo can do science, Mobile phones tracking earthquakes, Black Guillemots and receding ice; Birds using cigarette butts to repel parasites