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BBC Inside Science
BBC Radio 4
A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
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78%The state of our substrate: What is drought doing to our soil?
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73%Are we alone in the universe?
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75%Testing testosterone testing
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75%How might we spot nukes in space?
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71%Are we one step closer to creating life in a lab?
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61%How do you immortalise natural history?
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72%Can we engineer ourselves out of a heatwave?
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60%Finding the evidence for the social media ban
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73%How do you build an unbuildable tower?
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70%How is AI going to change science?
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66%Plankton's untapped potential
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77%El Niño is nigh, but so what?
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74%The science behind hantavirus
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61%Should Pluto become a planet again?
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69%Why is Europe the fastest-warming continent?
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65%Can we prevent the next pandemic?
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83%Forty years on from nuclear disaster
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70%Return to the moon
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73%Responding to your science questions
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75%The future of space travel
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63%Is quantum computing having its moment?
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73%Is the Earth warming faster than we expected?
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80%How is war being fought in space?
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68%Does new science get us closer to finding out how life on earth began?
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73%How to bury radioactive waste
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64%Will there be a city on the moon in ten years?
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81%Where do forever chemicals come from?
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73%Should we rethink navigating by GPS?
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78%How is air travel returning to supersonic speeds?
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76%Why is Nasa sending people around the moon?
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63%How rare are Greenland’s rare earth elements?
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76%How did President Trump transform science in 2025?
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73%Would our ancestors have benefited from early neanderthals making fire?
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81%A 'functional' cure for HIV?
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72%Why aren’t gene therapies more common?
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72%What’s in the wording of the COP 30 negotiations?
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74%Could technology replace animal testing in science?
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74%Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?
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78%Is climate change to blame for Hurricane Melissa?
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79%Have scientists created a bionic eye?
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77%Why do we love to play games?
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70%What can the UK learn from China on renewable energy?
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66%Are embryos made from skin cells the future of fertility treatment?
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77%The science behind autism
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70%What’s the highest a human could possibly pole vault?
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69%Could we have evidence of life on Mars?
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70%What does caffeine do to our bodies?
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71%Does warm weather mean more rats in UK towns and cities?
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70%Could solar panels in space be the energy source of the future?
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69%What will we be wearing in the future?
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64%What’s the evidence for vaccines?
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78%Why wasn’t the Russia mega earthquake as damaging as previous ones?
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69%The surprising culture of the animal kingdom
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65%How can we keep our homes cool in a changing climate?
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62%How can we reduce the impact of plastic on the environment?
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70%How do you turn facial expressions into music?
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77%What happens when you bomb a uranium enrichment site?
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64%Are trees the answer to solving climate change?
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80%What science is the UK government funding?
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72%Can science save our oceans?
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77%Your science questions answered
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65%Does the pandemic agreement make the world safer?
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69%Will the Hole in the Ozone Layer Close?
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66%The mysteries of the ocean floor
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73%How vulnerable is our power supply?
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77%What would cuts to Nasa mean for space science?
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83%Answers to Your Science Questions
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69%How can science help us fight wildfires?
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71%Is this finally the moment for UK tidal power?
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75%Is everything we know about the universe wrong?
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74%Wild birds in crisis
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79%Are boys doing better than girls at maths and science?
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66%Better Than Gold: Critical Minerals
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79%AI in Science: Promise and Peril
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71%Biotech Risks and Asteroid Anxiety
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69%US science in chaos
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63%The World’s Biggest Iceberg
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66%Is 1.5 still alive?
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69%Next-gen batteries and 'dark oxygen'
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75%UK AI & science-optimised pasta
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61%Science in 2025
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68%The Science of Laughter
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72%Board Game Science
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66%The Year in Science
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71%The rising threat of bird flu
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66%Fact-checking the Bovaer backlash
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68%Is flood forecasting failing?
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71%The climate cost of war
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73%Nuclear medicine shortages and Jane Goodall on COP29
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63%COP29: Are climate summits working?
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72%Spooky Science
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66%Whatever happened to graphene?
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63%Are our carbon sinks failing?
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69%Should we bring back extinct animals?
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77%Could coal shut-down mark new era for energy?
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76%How green is space travel?
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78%Is lab-grown meat the future of food?
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73%The first civilian spacewalk
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70%The Grenfell cladding
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70%Predicting everything
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79%Why aren’t we eating more insects?
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63%Beavers of London
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68%Going for gold
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68%How much of a risk is space junk?
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74%CERN’s Supercollider Plan
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77%Should Antarctica be off limits?
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70%Wimbledon Grass Science
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67%Sun, sea... and science
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73%What makes an effective protest?
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77%Taylor Swift Seismology
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72%Are implanted brain chips the future?
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71%How do we solve antibiotic resistance?
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64%Why do we sleep?
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68%Micro Nuclear Reactors
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73%Is gene therapy the future?
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71%Is treated sewage worse for the environment than raw?
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71%Ugly animals and asteroid Apophis
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67%Can we get plastic waste under control?
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67%Do we need a new model of cosmology?
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83%Bird flu outbreak in cows
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72%200 years of dinosaur science
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80%Inside Your Microbiome
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79%Our Accidental Universe
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81%World’s oldest forest fossils
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64%How pure is the water from your tap?
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64%Dimming the Sun
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77%Laboratory-Grown Meat
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69%The Gulf Stream’s tipping point
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66%Ancient Roman writings revealed
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75%When brains and computers meet
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63%Hydrogen and the race to net zero
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74%A New Volcanic Era?
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65%Understanding Flood Forecasting
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81%Space Exploration
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64%12 days of Christmas - science version
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64%The Science of the South Pole
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71%Biggest COP in history
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78%Vagrant Birds
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66%Finding Tunnels
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72%UK Covid-19 Inquiry
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67%Iceland Volcano
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78%Loss and damages for vulnerable countries
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67%Metal Mines
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60%Forever chemicals
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69%White phosphorus
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69%Tumbling down the rabbit hole of assembly theory
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71%Life beyond Earth
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81%The state of nature in the UK
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76%Why is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rowing back on climate pledges?
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68%The halfway point for sustainable development
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73%What’s the cost of invasive species?
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66%How will climate change affect where we can live?
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80%What makes a healthy river?
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66%Why do we want to go back to the Moon?
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62%Time is still ticking for the Amazon
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70%Reality check: carbon capture and storage
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72%Battles with flames
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72%The wide-ranging effects of climate change
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66%How social media can affect the health of teenagers
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62%Mapping the universe
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77%Heat and health
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66%The science of sound
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66%The Kakhovka dam and global food security
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75%An ocean of opportunities
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72%AI and human extinction
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70%The benefits and problems of eDNA
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69%Science in the making
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75%Can we prevent natural disasters?
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66%Wild Britain
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76%70th anniversary of the discovery of DNA’s structure
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74%Rocket Launch Pollution
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69%Negotiation
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65%Recycling
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70%Net Zero
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76%Covid – missing link found?
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81%Sweet Science
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81%Science superpower?
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79%Covid leaks and conspiracies
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67%Antarctic Ice Special
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69%Gene Editing Ethics, Killer Whale Mummy's Boys and Ancient Hippo Butchery
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67%Abundant energy
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71%Exploring the New Environmental Improvement Plan
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67%Vegetarian school dinners
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70%Towards Net Zero
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69%Chatbot plagiarism
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66%The UK's first satellite launch
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83%Game changers
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71%A Scientifically Superior Christmas Dinner
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69%Cancer cure, Strep A research and hopes for biodiversity
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74%Biodiversity
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67%Killer smog
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81%Science funding
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64%Climate science and politics
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73%COP27
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62%Monkeypox
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69%Turtle Voices, a Pandemic Retrospective and a Nose-Picking Primate
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70%The BBC at 100
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71%Avian flu
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65%Coronavirus - new variants
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74%Fracking Science
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66%Science collaborations – with Russia
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71%Is the James Webb Space Telescope too good?
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76%Ancient Amputation
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75%Dealing with drought
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71%Return of the ozone hole
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74%A Possible Sequel to the Dinosaur Armageddon
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71%Amplified Arctic Amplification and Microclot Clues to Post-Viral Disease
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70%Shaun The Sheep Jumps Over The Moon, Bronze Age Kissing and PPE Rubbish
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68%Heatwave: the consequences
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69%Multiverses, melting glaciers and what you can tell from the noise of someone peeing
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74%Deep Space and the Deep Sea - 40 years of the International Whaling Moratorium.
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74%Robotic Thumbs, Mending Bones with Magnets, and the State of Science this Summer
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69%10 Years of the Higgs Boson
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79%Engineering Around Mercury, Science Festivals, and The Rise of The Mammals
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73%Inside Sentience
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70%Miscounting Carbon, EU Funding Stalemate, and How to Make a Royal Hologram
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77%A Reign of Science
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81%Monkeypox, Pompeii aDNA, and Elephant Mourning Videos
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60%Buried Mars Landers, Freezing Species, and Low-Tide Archaeology
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75%Running Rings Around Matter
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66%Precious Metals, Earlier Eggs, and Meaningful Meteorites
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75%The Ebb and Flow of the Tidal Power Revolution
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70%Building Better Engagement
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63%A Trip-Switch for Depression?
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62%Declining Data, Climate Deadlines and the Day the Dinosaurs Died
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69%How can the UK get to zero carbon?
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77%Racial inequality in UK science
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78%Global food security during Ukraine conflict
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70%High Seas treaty talks and discoveries from the deep
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80%Cyber frontlines in Ukraine
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83%World’s largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye
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79%COVID-19: Beginnings... and endings?
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62%Fusion energy smashes world record
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73%The Continuing Story of the Nuclear Waste Bill
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67%Predicting Long Covid, and the Global Toll of Antimicrobial Resistance
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74%The 'perfect' depth for a destructive eruption
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72%The Rutland ‘Sea Dragon’, An Astronomer's Christmas and some Animal Magic
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71%Deep ocean exploration
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66%A new space age?
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60%The Origin of Celtic Culture in Britain?
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75%The James Webb Space Telescope
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69%Initial Omicron Lab Data, Creative Naps, and Fishy Sounds.
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72%When Pandemics Collide
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77%Malaria: what's in it for the mosquito?
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75%Yet More Space Junk; COP-up or COP-out; The End of Bias.
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69%Propane: Keeping Your Cool as the World Warms Around You
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73%How Whales Farmed For Food, COP progress, and The Last Stargazers
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60%Atmospheric Pollutants and Where to Find Them
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73%The Possible Impact of false-negative PCR Tests
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66%Early Alzheimer's Alert
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72%Surprising choice for Nobel prizes in a pandemic?
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61%Covid vaccine boosters; why we don't have a tail; cassowary domestication; Royal Society Science book prize shortlist
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73%La Palma volcano; wind energy in the UK; origins of SARS-Cov2; Formula 1 safety
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67%Perseverance drills on Mars; space tourism; Australian fire debris and algal blooms; DNA vaccines against Covid
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69%Climate change and oil and gas exploration; cutting methane emissions; African wild dog populations; freezing eggs and sperm
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67%Rugby and the brain
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74%Window to solve pandemic origins closing
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65%Mammoth Journey
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66%IPCC report - extreme weather events
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77%Bees and multiple pesticide exposure
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74%Covid 19 – reaching the unvaccinated
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76%A life-changing database
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65%Covid19 - should we test everybody ?
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72%Covid and our ancient ancestors
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67%Gene editing gets real
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70%UK science policy shake-up; Ivermectin & Covid; black fungus in Indian Covid patients; many hominins in Siberian cave
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72%Cov-Boost trial; SARS-Cov 2 infection in action; sapling guards; why tadpoles are dying
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74%Covid vaccines in children; preventing dengue; algal blooms; supersonic flight
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62%Lab origin theory of SARS-Cov2; gene for obesity; dark matter map; rock art in Scotland
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74%Human use of plants beyond the limits of history.
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77%Blood Clot Cure, Synthetic Fuels and Coal Mine Heat Pumps
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79%Microplastics in UK river beds
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67%Early burials, diversity in Tudor England, a malaria vaccine, and rogue brain waves
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63%Dragonfly on Titan, Retreating Glaciers, Surge Testing, Acoustic lighthouses
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64%Coronavirus variants and vaccines, climate change resistant coffee, dare to repair and how to get rid of moths
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69%Blood clots, grieving and the emotion of screams
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65%Disobedient particles, noisy gorillas, sharks and fictional languages
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78%Science funding cuts; Mice get Covid-19; Native oyster reintroductions
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74%Halfway to net zero; hydrogen as a fuel; Fagradalsfjall, Iceland’s active volcano
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65%Human embryo research and ethics; sperm whale social learning; Antikythera mechanism
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65%China's green growth plan
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74%Blue carbon; inside Little Foot's skull; reading locked letters
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75%Good COP Bad COP, Shotgun Lead Persistence, and Featherdown Adaptation
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72%Nasa's Perseverance - will it pay off? And spotting likely hosts for future pandemics.
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66%Meeting Mars, Melting Ice, Ozone on the Mend Again, and A Sea Cacophany
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64%Putting a number on biodiversity
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70%Next Gen Covid Vaccines; Man's Oldest Bestest Friend; Bilingual Brain Development
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67%Vaccine Hesitancy and Ethnicity; The Joy of catnip; Lake Heatwaves
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69%UK Science post Brexit; GMOs vs Gene Editing regulation; Identical Twins That Aren't Indentical
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75%Vaccine Dosing and Biodiversity Soundscape Monitoring
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67%Brian Cox and Alice Roberts on a decade of extraordinary science
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79%Space Rocks, Aquatic Dinosaurs and Global Temperatures; 2020 science reviewed
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74%Covid mutation; On the facial expression of emotions; A mystery object
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66%Future risk planning; Millennium Seed Bank; Urban trees
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71%Protein folding; Hyabusa sample return; Holiday Covid testing
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67%26/11/2020
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68%COVID Operation Moonshot; Big Compost Experiment; Gulf of Mexico meteorite and new life
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70%mRNA vaccinations; bacterial space miners; Artemis accords
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74%COVID in families; earthquake under Aegean Sea; Camilla Pang wins science book prize
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71%A new saliva gland, Bill Bryson on the Human Body, and the return of the Dust Bowl
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