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Lab Notes: How breastfeeding can protect against cancer
The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and a dilemma over the appropriate use of artefacts from a Roman shipwreck
Lab Notes: How your brain chooses your next snack
The history of life on Earth may be very different to what we think
Lab Notes: Times we thought we found aliens
Paint additive boosts plant growth in greenhouses
Lab Notes: The extinct ape-like human relative that made tools
Teenagers encounter their challenges
Lab Notes: How solar eclipses trick birds into singing
2025 Nobel Prizes plus more from the British Science Festival
Lab Notes: How humpback whales bounced back
Reports from The British Science Festival in Liverpool England
Lab Notes: Why CO2 peaks at this time of year
Climate change and pollution effects seen on Palau
Lab Notes: These high-tech mouthguards predict concussions
Uncovering the mystery of Palau’s ancient terraces
Lab Notes: After the SPF scandal — how is sunscreen tested?
Quantum biology, two botanic gardens, and the importance of archaeology
Lab Notes: Move over, NASA — Australia's heading back into space
Bird navigation, reducing food waste and a tribute to John Clarke
Lab Notes: Why your hay fever will get worse with climate change
The Science Show celebrates 50 years
Lab Notes: Why do whales beach themselves?
Complex molecules in space – how they formed and how they got here
Lab Notes: The fall of the food pyramid
Gene editing brings promise for genetic blood disorders
Lab Notes: The native ants that take down cane toads
Back to the dark ages for American research?
Lab Notes: How do I avoid eating and breathing microplastics?
Climatic changes everywhere as the world’s oceans become hotter
Lab Notes: What's quantum mechanics ever done for me?
Tracing the 100-year history of quantum mechanics
Lab Notes: Why some mums have all boys or all girls
Australia's forgotten inventor brothers
Lab Notes: Can bottom trawling be a sustainable way to fish?
The trees that harness lightning to kill their rivals
Lab Notes: The telescope redefining the Universe
What does it take to bring back an extinct animal?
Lab Notes: What we can learn from the world’s cleanest air
A portrait of philosopher Karl Popper
Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
Lab Notes: The tiny beetle ravaging Perth's trees
Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist
Lab Notes: What makes Sydney's cockies so clever?
Hang on – we’re about to enter a wormhole!
Lab Notes: How microscopic algae can devastate ocean life
Black white and green
Lab Notes: AI that outperforms humans is coming
Mary Somerville - Brilliant polymath, scientific genius triumphed against the odds
Lab Notes: Why a metre is a metre long
Evidence of oldest reptiles found in Victoria
Lab Notes: The plight of the southern right whales
Aging halted in fruit flies. How about humans?
Lab Notes: Why one man let deadly snakes bite him 200 times
A happy 99th birthday to a friend of The Science Show
Lab Notes: Where's my needle-free vaccine?
The wonder of sharks surviving for 500 million years
Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?
The power of palaeontology
Lab Notes: Why sprinting sensation Gout Gout is so fast
New findings show how genetic mutations drive autoimmunity.
Lab Notes: How to decommission a nuclear power plant
A new approach for democracy, tracing ancient dead stars and does the soil have a biome?
Lab Notes: Should we be putting pig parts in people?
Net zero carbon emissions – a review of progress
Lab Notes: Why have Saturn's rings 'vanished'?
Landscape and islands
Lab Notes: The extreme conditions F1 drivers face in a race
Your exposome, Kavli awards and more improbable research
Lab Notes: 1 in 3 women get this infection. To cure it, treat men
A crisis, an opera, and one of the greatest photos in history - The AAAS rides again.
Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
Naomi Oreskes The Big Myth and a new theory for the origin of black holes
Lab Notes: Are we on the brink of another pandemic?
Scope for all as some cities leap ahead with green initiatives
Lab Notes: What history can teach us about ‘city-killer’ asteroids
Vale Felicia Huppert
Lab Notes: Varroa is here but honey bees strike back
The wonder of Australia’s deserts
Lab Notes: Why the Australian sun has a real sting to it
Old rocks, old humans, old sharks, and links to today
Lab Notes: More than whale food — krill are climate heroes
Science Show Summer - Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
Lab Notes: A debunked vaccine theory rears its ugly head — again
Micronesian community and scientists unite to protect remote Ulithi atoll
Science Extra: Echoes of a tsunami
Science Show Summer - Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, and amateur engineer
Science Extra: The anatomy of a scam
Science Show Summer - Merlin meets Dr Crispy
Science Extra: March of the cane toads
Science Show Summer - The Extremely Large Telescope
Science Extra: Weight of the world
Science Show Summer - A wire around the world
Science Extra: More auroras in store?
Science books for Christmas and a portrait of Matthew Bailes
Mysterious signal and a mysterious place
PM’s Innovation Prize for childhood cancer drug
Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks from sugar cane waste