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Weekly: Climate Special - an antidote for doom; plus the key ingredient for alien technology, and surprising revelations about an ancient tattooed mummy
Dead Planets Society #3: Gravitational Wave Apocalypse
Weekly: Ultra-processed foods not so bad?; Another milestone toward fusion power; Mapping the genes we know nothing about
CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road
Weekly: Surprise superconductor claims put to the test; Alzheimer’s test goes on sale; how NASA (briefly) lost Voyager 2
Dead Planets Society #2: Punch A Hole in a Planet
Weekly: Cheaper cures for many diseases; How to understand the superconductor ‘breakthrough’; Hear a star twinkle
CultureLab: Oppenheimer – The rise and fall of the “father of the atomic bomb”
Weekly: How to measure consciousness; Nature-made graphene; New sabretooth cats
Dead Planets Society #1: Kill The Sun
Weekly: JWST’s amazing year; Giant sloth jewellery; $1million mathematics prize
CultureLab: Earth’s Deep History: Chris Packham on the epic and tumultuous story of our planet
Weekly: Earth breaks heat records; Quantum LiDAR for self-driving cars; Cryptography in pre-Viking runic writing
Weekly: New era in gravitational astronomy; Upending stereotypes of women in hunter-gatherer societies; Orangutan beatboxing and human speech origins
Weekly: The truth behind the orca uprising; Earth enters uncharted territory; genetic treatments for unborn babies.
Weekly: Claims that secret alien technology is held in the US; link between gut bacteria and intelligence; the parasite that makes ants live longer
#199 Being Human: Lewis Dartnell on how our biology shapes our actions
#198 Giant: An opera about the legacy of the ‘Irish giant’ Charles Byrne and the surgeon John Hunter
#197 Ancient human Homo naledi had advanced culture; AI passes the world’s biggest Turing Test; climate change hits New York
#196 Animal Liberation Now: Peter Singer on eating and living ethically
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