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Please note both the English and Spanish versions of Tomorrow Today will be taking an 11 week hiatus during the Summer. Due to the fact that many episodes produced by Deutsche Welle during the Summer months are programs repeated from earlier in the year, it makes little sense for us to re-post programs that are already available on PegMedia. PegMedia members are invited to use repeat broadcasts of the program which are available on this page. If you have previous programs already downloaded we would ask you use these programs first. This will save us the costs we pay for each download. We will return on September 3rd with all new programming.

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Coming up this week on Tomorrow Today - the Science Magazine from Deutsche Welle ---

Model Organisms - zebrafish in human medical research: Zebrafish are surprisingly similar to humans. Swiss genetics researchers are using the fish to study an eye disease that also affects humans. In what is known as spontaneous nystagmus the eye does not track moving objects, but moves in the opposite direction. The condition can lead to vision impairment. The scientists found that in fish with the disorder the optic nerves do not cross. They hope this discovery will help lead to a treatment in humans.

Celtic Calendar - prehistoric astronomy: An archaeologist studying a Celtic burial mound in Germany has discovered that it was not only a grave site, but a huge astronomical chronometer. The prince's grave at its center is part of a gigantic calendar. With the help of technology developed by NASA the researcher found that the arrangement of the other 130 graves in the tumulus correspond to the constellations in the northern night sky. The Celtic lunar calendar may be proof of the astronomical sophistication of a European culture long before the Roman era.

Graphene - innovative material for the electronics of the future: Scientists in Erlangen have managed to produce graphene in large quantities with the help of soap and ultrasound. Graphene is the thinnest material known to us. It's transparent and harder than diamond. The ultra-thin carbon layer is an excellent conductor of electricity and heat. Its properties have opened up a whole set of new industrial applications - like the mobile phone you can wrap around your arm, or a carbon-based computer. It also offers possibilities for making stable and highly conducting plastics.

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File Name of Episode: 015 TomorrowToday 06112012.mpg

Date Episode Uploaded: Monday, June 11, 2012 - 06:11

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