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19 November 2018
An international team of scientists have detected light from the most luminous galaxy known...
16 November 2018
How do mosquitoes find you in the dark? What is spooky action at a distance? Why do things go black when they're...
14 November 2018
The wildlife impact of urban sprawl, Devil Facial Tumour Disease 2 and how LSD works in the brain...
13 November 2018
How WW1 impacted how we treat head injuries, then and now.
13 November 2018
How do the objects we see around us every day actually get made?
12 November 2018
Could you pick a Neanderthal child out of a line up?
10 November 2018
The Space Boffins podcast is in New York with NASA astronaut, engineer and Big Bang Theory star Mike Massimino.
09 November 2018
Will AI be making the medicines of the future, and how clever are ravens?
09 November 2018
What is deja vu? Do helium balloons defy gravity? Plus the life saving backpack for bees!
08 November 2018
Non-genetic traits inherited between generations are rarer than previously thought, according to a new study in Cell.
06 November 2018
Will AI be taking our jobs? Can tech help with infertility problems?
02 November 2018
How do we learn about the genetics of cancer?
02 November 2018
Can a vasectomy be reversed? Can phantom limb pain be treated? Are diesel and petrol made differently?
01 November 2018
This month's highlights from the world of neuroscience research...
30 October 2018
How can we observe things we can't see?
29 October 2018
How are wombat droppings cube shaped?
29 October 2018
This week we look at the science of samba and the chemistry of cha-cha-cha
26 October 2018
Why do we need sleep? How do tides work? Your questions answered...
26 October 2018
After a millennium of fighting tuberculosis, we still cannot eradicate it due to emerging antibiotic resistance, but...
26 October 2018
Scientists identify a way to target severe gum disease...
23 October 2018
This week, the molecular chemists that make the world go round: catalysts.
22 October 2018
How dangerous is second hand smoking?
20 October 2018
What happens in the brain when we're scared?
16 October 2018
We uncover the history of the greatest inventors who ever lived.