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