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Ebola still surging in Africa, and Mars dust danger

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A sweet truth: the history and science of sugar

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Mars moon mission to Phobos, and a DNA typewriter

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Nature's clocks: why some lives fly by

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US blocks Starlink in Ukraine, and a Parkinson's blood test

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What is menopause, and how can you manage it?

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Plague death in Russia, and the 2026 Nobel Prizes

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Why AI is changing everything

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Cancer drug gene screen, and world's most powerful rocket

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What is heart disease, and how can it be tackled?

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Kent's meningitis outbreak, and heat-loving amoeba

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The magic of mushrooms and the science of fungi

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AI poses biosecurity risk, and the ice that doesn't shatter

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A super El Nino is on the way. What should we expect?

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World-first baby skull surgery, and could AI kill us?

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What you need to know about driverless vehicles

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Supersized El Nino strikes, and navigation app for the blind

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How chemistry can make us healthier

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Shingles vaccine and heart disease, and allergy transpoosion

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Incredible insects and their special skills

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Salmonella outbreak, and Roman shipwreck discovery

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How can chronic wounds cost more than cancer?

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Malaria drug breakthrough, and space radiation vests

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Solar eclipse special

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Breakthrough womb surgery, and the SpaceX Moon crash

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The food of the future

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Chasing fire clouds, and nanoparticles blitz brain cancers

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Titans of Science: Sara Wickstrom

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Wildfires worldwide, and algae microbots for drug delivery

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Titans of Science: Adrian Owen

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Alzheimer's drug breakthrough, and sugar in space

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Titans of Science: Enrico Coen

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Weight loss pills on sale, and Dolly the sheep's legacy

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Titans of Science: Tara Spires-Jones

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Children's mental health, and mapping bilingual brains

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The science of sound and music

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Europe swelters in 'heat dome', and Martin Rees on aliens

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Lessons from our ancient ancestors

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UK's under-16 social media ban, and the first trillionaire

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Stonehenge and the summer solstice

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Christian Eriksen's heart device, and air leaks on the ISS

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Fever pitch: the science of the Football World Cup

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Ovarian cancer wonder drug, and the birth of black holes

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Should we be concerned about Ebola?

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Rising melanoma rates, and artificial bird's eggs

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The future of AI

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Ebola outbreak in the DRC, and Artemis III preparation

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Dealing with depression

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Virologists on hantavirus, and extreme heat at the World Cup

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Hantavirus outbreak: cruising for a biological bruising

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Hantavirus outbreak, and salmon on cocaine

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Meningitis under the microscope

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Chernobyl 40 years on, and countering ash dieback disease

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Giant leaps in astronomy: the telescopes taking us further

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Microbiome links to Parkinson's, and a massive laser boost

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What is flooding? And how do we tackle it?

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Alzheimer's drugs & tackling HIV

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Oil, gas & what comes next

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Space travel alters the body, and chronic pain on the mind

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What is time?

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Artemis II launch, and tackling physical inactivity

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Nature frozen in time

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Social media addiction, and the famous honeybee dance

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Return to the Moon

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Meningitis in Kent, and sonic hedgehogs

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Understanding endometriosis

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War and the environment, and Neanderthal-human interbreeding

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Eradicating polio

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Immune reprogramming for cancer, and squeaky shoe science

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Titans of Science: Mike Wooldridge

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Brain fats cleared during sleep, and bird poo powered Peru

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Titans of Science: Jane Carlton

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Navalny's dart frog poisoning, and cat cancer genomics

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Heart failure: can you mend a broken heart?

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A nasal spray for flu, and is this how life began on Earth?

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The mosquito: the world's deadliest animal

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Shingles vaccine delays dementia, and chatting AI bots

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Motor neurone disease: what does the science say?

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Cracking cancer's code, and the cow that scratches its back

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Titans of Science: John Zarnecki

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Alzheimer's fingerprick test, and space debris sonic booms

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Generation New Era: The UK's new birth cohort study

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China's new London embassy, and screen-time retards speech

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Science leads the way at Davos

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Chickenpox jab UK rollout, and how the US grabbed Maduro

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Titans of Science: Ed Wild & Sarah Tabrizi

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Best Science Stories of 2025

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MI6 pushes cyber security, and WHO warns of fat jab shortage

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What's a white Christmas, and will we get one this year?

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New monkeypox virus strain, and Chernobyl's dome damaged

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Titans of Science: Paul Davies

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Facial recognition tech, and Russia destroys launchpad

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Titans of Science: Georgina Long

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Prostate cancer screening, and DNA building blocks in Bennu

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New ways to combat the Antibiotic Apocalypse

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Small modular reactors for Wales, and moss survives in space

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A climate COP out?

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Flu season starts early, and staving off hungry seagulls

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80 years of nuclear weapons

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Vaping rates surge, and space race to deliver economic boon