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Signals, seaweed and space

The anniversary of the telegraph sparks an unexpected conversation about bioelectricity.

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Migrate ideas

The science behind migration, a wall of wind and the real life human labour supporting AI

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Collapsing pensions and civilisations

French pension protests lead us to the lifespans of people, naked mole rats and societies

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Wildfires and wild animals

Smog in North America leads us to conservationists using air pollution to track animals.

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Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces

Why does pollen make us sick, what it tells us about the past; and a look at snot palaces

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Predictions from the sky and murderous fish

Celebrations of Eid send us on a science-filled odyssey to the stars.

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Unexpected elements on the sea bed

The team discover mysterious potato shaped nodules and hydroelectric power in your garden

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Nato and the left-handed universe

Nato鈥檚 summit has us considering decision-making and the balance of the universe

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Barbie in Space

How Barbie is helping humans return to the moon, and is the colour pink actually real?

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Password1234#Invisibility&Moonshot

Why do teenagers share passwords so often?

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The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas

The unexpected science of the World Cup and are banana skins hallucinogenic?

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Some of our universe is missing

Could science help trace Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the missing gas in the cosmos?

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Corrupted thinking and cancerous co-option

Can scientific thinking detect political and corporate corruption?

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The man who couldn鈥檛 lie

Why do we believe in conspiracy theories, and what鈥檚 going on in our brains when we lie?

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Protecting the Moon

India's lunar landing has us looking at unexpected science around the moon

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Zombies, cows and coups

The wasp that turns cockroaches into zombies and the science hiding behind coups

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Forgetful fish, telescopic worms and bad air days

As oceans take the heat for global warming, fish find it harder to learn their way.

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Can technology read our mind?

The UN General Assembly has us examining how our brains process language

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How inflation affects the entire cosmos

The science behind news about inflation leads us to the first moments of the universe.

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Complete shutdown

How would it feel wake up several years later?

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How bedbugs took over the world

Why is bedbugs' unconventional mode of reproduction so successful?

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Putting Madonna to the test

Do Madonna's lyrics stand up to scientific scrutiny?

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Fashion to dye for

As Lagos Fashion Week begins, we follow the trends into science

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Scary science

Is fear good for you? In the week where many celebrated Halloween, we look at the science

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Working 70 hours a week

If you work twice as long, do you get twice as much done?

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Why we need to talk toilets

Nov 19 is UN World Toilet Day. Can the world sanitation crisis be tackled?

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All about cricket(s)

The science of spitting on cricket balls, particle accelerators and insect sounds

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Meetings with intelligent worms

From worm blobs to mangoes - there鈥檚 more to meetings than you thought.

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Boring science

How might our future lie underground?

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An exploration of empathy

On the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, we look at empathy

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