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Are we any closer to understanding the secrets of dark matter and dark energy?
Plus space investor Mason Angel...
New neuro research, and tips to keep your social life swinging...
Plus, the cuckoos in an evolutionary arms race
Both petrol and electric...
Are women more empathetic than men?
Chris Berrow finally reviews the Playstation Portal.
The timeline, the victims, and the inquiry...
We get under the skin...
Plus, how the first animals could have aided the Cambrian explosion...
What causes Alzheimer's disease?
Has safety been sidelined in the race for market share...
Plus, proof that last summer was the hottest for 2000 years...
Why do we scratch our heads when we're thinking?
Would another civilisation independently come to the same conclusions as we have...
The intricacies of human expression go under our microscope...
Plus, alternatives to licking toads to treat depression...
And was Dr Chris ever on the Cambridge rowing team...
When bendy PVC turns brittle...
Cancer cases call for a redoubling of efforts to combat the disease...
Or should we stick to the classics?
Plus, a plastic designed to eat itself...
Why are vehicle batteries rectangular?
Plus, why bowhead whales are stuck in a genetic bottleneck