Unexpected Elements
By BBC World Service
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Pookie
Dec 3, 2018
Used to be good with different stories to other bbc sci podcasts. But now its just a repeat of Science in Action podcast followed by a repeat of Crowd Science podcast. Therefore now an absolutely pointless podcast.
JT
Nov 22, 2018
Nov 11, 2018
Description
The news you know, the science you don’t. Unexpected Elements looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. From Afronauts, to why we argue, to a deep dive on animal lifespans: see the world in a new way.
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Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Thrillseekers
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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The World's Worst Tourist
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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A sticky situation
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The only one
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Let them eat crab
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Can I eat it?
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Breaking, climbing, and surfing
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Marriage madness
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Political Jet Lag
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Mushroom magic
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Lights out
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Seismic swift
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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An unexpected burger
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Balloon manoeuvres
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Eternal flames
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May 31, 2024 |
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A world going on underground
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May 24, 2024 |
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Winning Losers
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May 17, 2024 |
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Unexpected birthday party
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May 10, 2024 |
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Horsey driverless cars and competitive cloning
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May 03, 2024 |
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A scientific séance
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Computer memories and quantum futures
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Beyoncé, banjos and dancing chemistry
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Unexpected elections
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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G.O.A.T
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Ancient water, modern solutions
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Fandom: The next generation
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Unexpected Oscars
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Leaping in Sync
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Going the distance
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Not so random acts of kindness
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Deep in thought
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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How plankton made mountains
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Populations of people, frogs and microbes
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Rulers and the rules of ageing
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Super corals and science diplomacy
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Timing is everything
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The Best of Unexpected Elements
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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A very dark day
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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An exploration of empathy
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Boring science
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Meetings with intelligent worms
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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All about cricket(s)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Why we need to talk toilets
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Working 70 hours a week
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Scary science
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Fashion to dye for
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Putting Madonna to the test
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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How bedbugs took over the world
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Complete shutdown
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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How inflation affects the entire cosmos
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Can technology read our mind?
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Forgetful fish, telescopic worms and bad air days
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Zombies, cows and coups
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Protecting the Moon
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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The man who couldn’t lie
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Corrupted thinking and cancerous co-option
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Some of our universe is missing
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Password1234#Invisibility&Moonshot
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Barbie in Space
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Nato and the left-handed universe
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Unexpected elements on the sea bed
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Predictions from the sky and murderous fish
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Wildfires and wild animals
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Collapsing pensions and civilisations
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Migrate ideas
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Signals, seaweed and space
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May 25, 2023 |
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Co-operation and cohesion
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May 18, 2023 |
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Coronation exploration
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May 11, 2023 |
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Return of Cyclone Freddy
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Human genome editing: Promise and Peril
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Drought worsens in East Africa
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Animals at the Wuhan Market
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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CRISPR & bioethics
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Turkey-Syria earthquake
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Science on ice
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Climate science activism
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Atmospheric rivers
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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One year on from the Tonga eruption
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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The James Webb Space Telescope - the first 6 months
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Mosquito pesticide failing
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Fusion milestone
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Ancient warmth in Greenland
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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COVID spreads in China
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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A distant planet’s atmosphere
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Online harassment of Covid scientists
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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What peat can tell us about our future
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Seismic events on Mars
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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The most powerful explosion ever recorded
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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The final moments of DART
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Should we mine the deep sea?
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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The genetics of human intelligence
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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The China Heatwave and the New Normal
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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Deadly drought
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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Icelandic volcano erupts again
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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The first galaxies at the universe's dawn
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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First images from the James Webb Space Telescope
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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Long Covid ‘brain fog’
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Extreme heat death risk in Latin America
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Monster microbe
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Thirty years after the Earth Summit
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Heat death by volcano and other stories
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May 29, 2022 |
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Death in the rainforest
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May 21, 2022 |
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Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart
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May 15, 2022 |
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Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100
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May 08, 2022 |
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The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave
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May 01, 2022 |
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Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Tsunami detective in Tonga
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Radioactive Red Forest
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Covid in the sewers
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Why are Covid19 cases rising in Hong Kong?
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Covid -19 origins
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Reforming the 'China Initiative'
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Identifying a more infectious HIV variant
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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The roots of Long Covid
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Tonga eruption – how it happened
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Have we got it wrong on Omicron?
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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CORBEVAX – A vaccine for the world?
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Omicron – mild or monster?
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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Omicron’s rapid replication rate
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Can the weather trigger a volcano?
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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Omicron, racism and trust
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Deliberately doomed dart
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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The end for coal power?
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Bambi got Covid
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Jet fuel from thin air
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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Can we still avoid climate catastrophe?
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Red blood cells’ surprising immune function
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Wetlands under attack
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Youngest rock samples from the moon
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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New evidence for SARS-CoV-2’s origin in bats
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Ebola can remain dormant for five years
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Methane - a climate solution?
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Record-shattering weather
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Insects in incredible detail
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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Nyiragongo Eruption
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May 29, 2021 |
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Robot revolution
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May 23, 2021 |
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Covid and clean air
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May 16, 2021 |
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Africa’s oldest burial
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May 09, 2021 |
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Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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Waste not, want not
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Weird weather
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Perseverance approaches Mars
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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Mixing Covid vaccines
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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Saving the Northern White Rhino
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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Gravitational waves and black holes
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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New variants of SARS-Cov2
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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Coping with Covid
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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2021 the year of variants
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Jan 02, 2021 |
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A year with Covid -19
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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Covid -19 – Mutations are normal
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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Freak weather getting even freakier
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Vaccines – the Covid confusion
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Covid-19 defeats US Marines
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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Osiris Rex stows asteroid material
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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Covid -19 mortality
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Do Covid–19 mutations matter?
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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Malaria resistance breakthrough
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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Covid -19 science versus politics
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Covid-19 Therapy Controversy
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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Trouble in Greenland
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Counting the heat health threat from climate change
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
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Jul 18, 2020 |
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Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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Covid-19 and children
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Record high temperatures – in the Arctic
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Covid -19 hope for severe cases
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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Food security, locusts and Covid -19
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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The medical complexity of Covid -19
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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Brazil’s Covid chaos
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May 31, 2020 |
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Loosening lockdown
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May 17, 2020 |
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Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
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May 10, 2020 |
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Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19
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May 03, 2020 |
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Presidents and pandemics
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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Italy, getting Covid 19 under control
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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The science of social distancing
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Covid -19 how infectious is it really?
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Tracking coronavirus spread
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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Understanding the Wuhan coronavirus
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Feb 02, 2020 |
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Wuhan Coronavirus
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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Mount Taal volcano
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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Australia’s extreme fire season
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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Adapting California
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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Gaming climate change
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Dec 29, 2019 |
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Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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White Island volcano eruption
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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CRISPR babies scandal – more details
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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New Malaria target
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Politics and Amazonia’s fires
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Nov 24, 2019 |
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Australia burning
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Nov 17, 2019 |
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Climate in crisis
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Nov 10, 2019 |
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Wildfires and winds in California
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?
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Oct 27, 2019 |
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Malaria, origins and a potential new treatment
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Oct 20, 2019 |
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From batteries to distant worlds
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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Global climate inaction
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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South East Asia choking - again
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Embryoids from stem cells
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Sep 15, 2019 |
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New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion
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Sep 07, 2019 |
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Nanotube computer says hello
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Aug 31, 2019 |
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Amazonian fires likely to worsen
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Aug 24, 2019 |
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Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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The birth of a new volcano
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May 26, 2019 |