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Dennis
Oct 28, 2021
A very interesting podcast that takes a deep dive into a wide range of "in the news" topics. The hosts talk with genuine experts in the subject and engage with them in a lively fashion that leads to some great insights.
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A show for curious minds. Join us each week as academic experts tell us about the fascinating discoveries they're making to understand the world, and the big questions they’re still trying to answer. A podcast from The Conversation, hosted by Gemma Ware.
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How Zimbabwe reached the point of abolishing the death penalty
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Why distrust in powerful politicians is part of a functioning democracy
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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How do animals understand death?
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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The story of one Amazon warehouse in the UK that pushed to unionise
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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50 years since the discovery of ancient hominin fossil Lucy in Ethiopia, calls grow to decolonize paleoanthropology
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The controversy over cod fishing in Canada
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Gangsters who leave their gang behind for something new
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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What is motivating Americans as they decide who to vote for
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Origins of South Australia’s mysterious pink sands revealed
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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MicroRNA: Victor Ambros on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Know Your Place: when did class stop predicting the way British people vote?
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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What Israel and its neighbours want now
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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HIV breakthrough in preventing infection via injection
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Himpathy: the psychology of why some people side with perpetrators of sexual misconduct
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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A lonely ancient plant needs a female partner – researchers are using drones and AI to find it
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Why mpox in Africa was ignored for too long and children are dying as a result
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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The emotional toll of dating apps and why they're no longer about finding love
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Geoengineering part 2: the case against reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Geoengineering part 1: the case to try modifying the climate
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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A tooth that rewrites history? The discovery challenging what we knew about Neanderthals
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Borders and Belonging: is Japan turning into a migration state?
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Curious Kids: Why is my dog so cute?
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Fightback mounts against trade deals fossil fuel investors can use to sue countries over climate action
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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New options for managing chronic pain after the opioid crisis
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Can shared experiences bring people closer together?
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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What next for the French and British right?
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Underwater soundscapes of seagrass meadows revealed in new recordings
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Don't Call Me Resilient: as war rages in Sudan, a new type of community resistance takes hold
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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3D printed guns: unmasking the designer of the FGC-9
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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The Brexit roots of the UK's Rwanda asylum plan – and why other EU leaders might want to copy it
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Scientists can't agree on how fast the universe is expanding – why this matters so much for our understanding of the cosmos
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Creative flow: what's going on inside our brains when everything just clicks
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Breakthroughs and failures on the road to a universal snake bite antivenom
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May 30, 2024 |
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Moments of hope: how Indians keep pushing back against the hollowing out of democracy
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May 23, 2024 |
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Assisted dying: Canada grapples with plans to introduce euthanasia for mental illness
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May 16, 2024 |
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How to spend the billions needed for climate adaptation – and make sure frontline communities have a say
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May 09, 2024 |
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Data poisoning: how artists are trying to sabotage generative AI
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May 02, 2024 |
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What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa part 3: Dream deferred
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa part 2: Tasting the fruits of freedom
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa part 1: Liberation, transition and reconciliation
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Trailer: What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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The Anthropocene epoch that isn't
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Don't Call Me Resilient: starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Invisible lines: how unseen boundaries shape the world around us
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Climate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate change
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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How conspiracy theories help to maintain Vladimir Putin’s grip on power in Russia
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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How North Korea is turning into a matriarchy
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Intellectual humility: the rewards of being willing to change your mind
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Israel-Gaza: how opinion polls used in Northern Ireland could pave a way to peace
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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As we dream, we can listen in on the waking world
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Deepfakes and disinformation swirl ahead of Indonesian election
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Environments can shape the differences between cultures
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The complicated journey toward a list of all life on Earth
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Descendants of Holocaust survivors explain why they are replicating Auschwitz tattoos on their own bodies
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Women lifestyle influencers are changing the face of the far right
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Interoception: the sixth sense we use to read hidden signals from our body
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Wolves return to Europe: what to do about them is a people problem
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Social media drains our brains and impacts our decision making
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza war on campus part 2: a chilling effect on academic freedom
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza war on campus part 1: American universities in the spotlight
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Kenya at 60: the patriotic choral music used to present one version of history
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Why unprecedented drought in the Amazon is so dangerous for the planet
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Genocide: the history of the term and what it means under international law
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Brandalism: the environmental activists using spoof adverts to critique rampant consumerism
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Antibiotic resistance: microbiologists turn to new technologies in the hunt for solutions
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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After Morocco's earthquake, artisans in Marrakech’s old medina face an uncertain future
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The wildfires that led to mass extinction. A warning from California's Ice Age history
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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When domicide razed my city: a view from Homs in Syria
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Don't Call Me Resilient: why are brown and Black people supporting the far right?
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Quantum dots: Louis Brus on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Neanderthals: what their extinction could tell us about Homo Sapiens
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Why Australia is putting a First Nations Voice to Parliament to a referendum
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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New malaria vaccine: a step closer to eradication
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Spain's egg donation boom
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Inside the Oslo Accords part 3: the legacy
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Inside the Oslo Accords part 2: after the handshake
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Inside the Oslo Accords part 1: why Norway was in the Middle East
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Fear and Wonder: how species are responding to climate change
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Production break
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Discovery: Thirty years after Jurassic Park hit movie screens, its impact on science and culture remains as strong as ever
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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The bacteria and microbes in your gut can affect your body and mental health, and engineering them promises new forms of treatment
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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How fine dining in Europe and the US came to exclude immigrant cuisine
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Debunking migration myths: the real reasons people move, and why most migration happens in the Global South
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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How protest movements use feminine images and social media to fight sexist ideologies of authoritarian regimes
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Crowdsourcing new constitutions: how 2 Latin American countries increased participation and empowered groups excluded from politics
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Beauty procedures from manicures to cosmetic surgery carry risk and the potential reward of a better life
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Governments and environmental groups are turning to international courts to combat the impacts of climate change
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Improving how the IMF does business could help billions of people worldwide
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May 25, 2023 |
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The solutions needed to address climate change already exist – Fear and Wonder podcast
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May 18, 2023 |
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Fast Fashion: Why garment workers’ lives are still in danger 10 years after Rana Plaza
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May 11, 2023 |
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Cloud seeding can increase rain and snow, and new techniques may make it a lot more effective
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May 04, 2023 |
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Dangerous and dirty – but cheap – used cars exported from the US and Europe are filling roads in Africa
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Fear and Wonder podcast: how scientists attribute extreme weather events to climate change
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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How recognising cultural practices in environmental regulation can help protect natural resources like sandalwood
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Do glitzy awards like the Earthshot Prize actually help fight climate change?
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Too many digital distractions are eroding our ability to read deeply
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Back to the Moon
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Iraq 20 years on: researchers assess how US invasion shapes lives today
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Is time an illusion?
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Three AI experts on how access to ChatGPT-style tech is about to change our world
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Discovery: Biologists discovered a new species of tiny owl on the forested island of Príncipe, and it's already under threat
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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After oil: the challenge and promise of getting the world off fossil fuels
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Loneliness is making us physically sick, but social prescribing can treat it
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Lack of diversity in clinical trials is leaving minority patients behind and harming the future of medicine
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Influencers are getting hired by smaller cities to attract new residents and generate revenue
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Beavers and oysters are helping restore lost ecosystems with their engineering skills
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Discovery: Secretly documenting starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Social welfare services are being cut across the world – but providing them is about more than just money
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Discovery: Reindeer's fascinating color-changing eyes
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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James Webb Telescope reveals unexpectedly busy early universe
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Changing a nation's diet
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Discovery: how celebrity footballers can help reduce prejudice against minorities
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Young people’s shifting relationship with alcohol
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Treating mental illness with electricity
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Uncharted Brain 3: the role viruses may play in Alzheimer’s
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Uncharted Brain 2: the family trauma of dementia from sports injuries
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Uncharted Brain 1: a lifelong study unlocks clues to Alzheimer’s
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Africa's stolen objects: what happens after they return
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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How to depolarize deeply divided societies
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Discovery: celibacy's surprising evolutionary advantages
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Radiation, pollution and urbanization are taking over natural selection
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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When digital nomads come to town
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Inside Brazil’s divisive gun debate
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Secretive lawsuits by fossil fuel companies could hold back climate action
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Thwaites Glacier: the melting, Antarctic monster of sea level rise
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Keeping buildings cool as it gets hotter
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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The cold war double agent abandoned by the spy agencies he risked his life for
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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What did dinosaurs actually look like?
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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A brief update
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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India and Pakistan heatwave is a sign of worse to come
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May 26, 2022 |
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Australian election: how the country’s political landscape is shifting
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May 18, 2022 |
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What is adult ADHD and how to treat it
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May 12, 2022 |
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Neutrality: why countries choose not to join a war – and what responsibilities come with it
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May 05, 2022 |
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Ukraine invasion threatens international collaboration in space – is current space law equipped to handle a new era of shifting power structures?
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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How your culture informs your emotional reaction to music
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Why Indonesia plans to relocate its capital from Jakarta to a new forest city on the island of Borneo
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Could lead makeup really have killed an 18th century socialite? A scientist investigated
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy – 50 years of ongoing protest for Indigenous sovereignty in Australia
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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How has Emmanuel Macron changed France?
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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The history and evolution of Ukrainian national identity
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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The trauma of life in limbo for refugees and asylum seekers in immigration detention
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Climate change: IPCC scientists on the narrowing window of opportunity to adapt
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Nuclear fusion record broken – what will it take to start generating electricity?
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Sahel security: what a wave of military coups means for the fight against jihadi groups in West Africa
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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If Russia invades Ukraine, what could happen to natural gas supplies to Europe?
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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The inside story of discovering omicron: South African scientists on the lessons their experience offers the rest of the world
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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China's plans for Xinjiang, and what it means for the region's persecuted Uyghurs
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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The science of sugar – why we're hardwired to love it and what eating too much does to your brain
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Crypto countries: Nigeria and El Salvador's opposing journeys into digital currencies
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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2022 science preview: mRNA vaccines, asteroid missions and collaborative robots
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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How the arts can help us come back together again
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Peering into the history of the universe: astronomers explain why the James Webb Space Telescope is such a big deal
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Planet pharma: what the industry got out of COVID
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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How abortion access is changing around the world
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Glasgow Climate Pact: what happened at COP26 and what it means for the world
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Ten years to 1.5°C: how climate anxiety is affecting young people around the world
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Tigray: the devastating toll of Ethiopia's vicious year of war
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Degrowth: why some economists think abandoning growth is the only way to save the planet
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Taiwan: what is China's long-term strategy?
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Explaining the 2021 Nobel Prizes: how touch works, a better way to make medicine and the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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New clues to consciousness + AI helps finish Beethoven's 10th symphony
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Germany election winners, losers, and how the Greens emerged as kingmakers + the benefits of saunas
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Have climate change predictions matched reality?
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Why is Justin Trudeau more popular abroad than in Canada? + Clues on why mosquitoes bite some of us more than others
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Haiti's history of cascading crises and political fragility
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Back to school with COVID: how to keep children safe
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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The origins of the Taliban
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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The biological switch that could turn neuroplasticity on and off in the brain
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Al-Shabaab: why women join the Islamist militant group
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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How we created fake smells to trick predators and save endangered birds
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Four-day week: has its moment arrived? + How Nairobi’s informal settlements got their names
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Olympics: the ultimate limits of human performance + lessons from 1920 Antwerp games
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Science of lab-grown and plant-based meat + Indonesia's child smoking problem
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Tough justice for international war crimes + why sarcasm is tricky for kids
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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UFO report: from shrouded history to a data-driven future – podcast
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Fire, tsunami, pandemic: how to ensure societies learn lessons from disaster
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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How Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro brought the military back to the centre of politics + archaeological garbage investigators
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Why so many Iranians plan not to vote this month + fireflies need the dark for love
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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The race to make money from our oceans: who is winning? + Brazilian women avoid getting pregnant
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Lab-grown human embryos just got a new set of rules + Johannesburg's romcom revolution
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May 27, 2021 |
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The racial hunger gap in American cities and what to do about it
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May 20, 2021 |
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Why India's COVID-19 vaccine rollout is faltering
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May 13, 2021 |
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Cuba's race for a coronavirus vaccine + making life's big decisions
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May 06, 2021 |
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Why Scotland's May election is crucial to independence movement, and the UK + an on/off switch for neuroplasticity
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Why children keep getting kidnapped in Nigeria + the Kenyan women who join Al-Shabaab
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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The colourful feathered world of what dinosaurs really looked like + Israel’s post-election foreign policy
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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The zombie company problem and what it means for our economies
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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A new force of nature? The inside story of fresh evidence from Cern that's exciting physicists
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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The great remote work experiment – what happens next?
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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COVID-19 caused the biggest drop in carbon emissions ever – how do we make it last?
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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COVID-19: where does the WHO go from here?
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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How climate change is flooding the Arctic Ocean with light
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Leaving Hong Kong after China's clampdown: where people are going and why
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Coronavirus vaccines: what’s getting in the way of the global rollout
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Myanmar's collective fury
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Why it's a big month for Mars
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Trailer: The Conversation Weekly
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Jan 25, 2021 |