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The climate changing power of 400 billion toasters

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The future of mathematics in the age of AI

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The future of particle physics

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Do you have the correct time?

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AI to solve the energy crisis?

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What AI agents talk about behind your back

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The quest for dark matter

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The day of the datacentres

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Is the era of the cancer vaccine upon us?

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Should we be scared of AI viruses?

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The state of our substrate: What is drought doing to our soil?

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Are we alone in the universe?

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Testing Testosterone Testing

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How might we spot nukes in space?

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Are we one step closer to creating life in a lab?

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How do you immortalise natural history?

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Can we engineer ourselves out of a heatwave?

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Finding the evidence for the social media ban

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How do you build an unbuildable tower?

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How is AI going to change science?

21

Plankton's untapped potential

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El Niño is nigh, but so what?

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The science behind hantavirus

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Should Pluto become a planet again?

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Why is Europe the fastest-warming continent?

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Can we prevent the next pandemic?

27

Forty years on from nuclear disaster

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Return to the moon

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Responding to your science questions

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Recommending: 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II

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The future of space travel

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Is quantum computing having its moment?

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Is the Earth warming faster than we expected?

34

How is war being fought in space?

35

Does new science get us closer to finding out how life on earth began?

36

How to bury radioactive waste

37

Will there be a city on the moon in ten years?

38

Where do forever chemicals come from?

39

Should we rethink navigating by GPS?

40

How is air travel returning to supersonic speeds?

41

Why is Nasa sending people around the moon?

42

How rare are Greenland’s rare earth elements?

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How did President Trump transform science in 2025?

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Would our ancestors have benefited from early neanderthals making fire?

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A 'functional' cure for HIV?

46

Why aren’t gene therapies more common?

47

What’s in the wording of the COP 30 negotiations?

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Could technology replace animal testing in science?

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Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?

50

Is climate change to blame for Hurricane Melissa?

51

Have scientists created a bionic eye?

52

Why do we love to play games?

53

What can the UK learn from China on renewable energy?

54

Are embryos made from skin cells the future of fertility treatment?

55

The science behind autism

56

What’s the highest a human could possibly pole vault?

57

Could we have evidence of life on Mars?

58

What does caffeine do to our bodies?

59

Does warm weather mean more rats in UK towns and cities?

60

Could solar panels in space be the energy source of the future?

61

What will we be wearing in the future?

62

What’s the evidence for vaccines?

63

Why wasn’t the Russia mega earthquake as damaging as previous ones?

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The surprising culture of the animal kingdom

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How can we keep our homes cool in a changing climate?

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How can we reduce the impact of plastic on the environment?

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How do you turn facial expressions into music?

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What happens when you bomb a uranium enrichment site?

69

Are trees the answer to solving climate change?

70

What science is the UK government funding?

71

Can science save our oceans?

72

Your science questions answered

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Does the pandemic agreement make the world safer?

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Will the Hole in the Ozone Layer Close?

75

The mysteries of the ocean floor

76

How vulnerable is our power supply?

77

What would cuts to Nasa mean for space science?

78

Answers to Your Science Questions

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How can science help us fight wildfires?

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Is this finally the moment for UK tidal power?

81

Is everything we know about the universe wrong?

82

Wild birds in crisis

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Are boys doing better than girls at maths and science?

84

Better Than Gold: Critical Minerals

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AI in Science: Promise and Peril

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Biotech Risks and Asteroid Anxiety

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US science in chaos

88

The World’s Biggest Iceberg

89

Is 1.5 still alive?

90

Next-gen batteries and 'dark oxygen'

91

UK AI & science-optimised pasta

92

Science in 2025

93

The Science of Laughter

94

Board Game Science

95

The Year in Science

96

The rising threat of bird flu

97

Fact-checking the Bovaer backlash

98

Is flood forecasting failing?

99

The climate cost of war

100

Nuclear medicine shortages and Jane Goodall on COP29