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Mary Somerville - Brilliant polymath, scientific genius triumphed against the o...
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Lab Notes: Why a metre is a metre long
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Evidence of oldest reptiles found in Victoria
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Lab Notes: The plight of the southern right whales
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Aging halted in fruit flies. How about humans?
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Lab Notes: Why one man let deadly snakes bite him 200 times
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A happy 99th birthday to a friend of The Science Show
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Lab Notes: Where's my needle-free vaccine?
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The wonder of sharks surviving for 500 million years
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Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?
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The power of palaeontology
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Lab Notes: Why sprinting sensation Gout Gout is so fast
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New findings show how genetic mutations drive autoimmunity.
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Lab Notes: How to decommission a nuclear power plant
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A new approach for democracy, tracing ancient dead stars and does the soil have...
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Lab Notes: Should we be putting pig parts in people?
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Net zero carbon emissions – a review of progress
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Lab Notes: Why have Saturn's rings 'vanished'?
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Landscape and islands
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Lab Notes: The extreme conditions F1 drivers face in a race
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Your exposome, Kavli awards and more improbable research
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Lab Notes: 1 in 3 women get this infection. To cure it, treat men
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A crisis, an opera, and one of the greatest photos in history - The AAAS rides a...
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Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
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Naomi Oreskes The Big Myth and a new theory for the origin of black holes
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Lab Notes: Are we on the brink of another pandemic?
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Scope for all as some cities leap ahead with green initiatives
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Lab Notes: What history can teach us about ‘city-killer’ asteroids
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Vale Felicia Huppert
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Lab Notes: Varroa is here but honey bees strike back
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The wonder of Australia’s deserts
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Lab Notes: Why the Australian sun has a real sting to it
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Old rocks, old humans, old sharks, and links to today
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Lab Notes: More than whale food — krill are climate heroes
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Science Show Summer - Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
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Lab Notes: A debunked vaccine theory rears its ugly head — again
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Micronesian community and scientists unite to protect remote Ulithi atoll
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Science Extra: Echoes of a tsunami
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Science Show Summer - Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, and amateur engineer
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Science Extra: The anatomy of a scam
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Science Show Summer - Merlin meets Dr Crispy
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Science Extra: March of the cane toads
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Science Show Summer - The Extremely Large Telescope
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Science Extra: Weight of the world
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Science Show Summer - A wire around the world
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Science Extra: More auroras in store?
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Science books for Christmas and a portrait of Matthew Bailes
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Mysterious signal and a mysterious place
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PM’s Innovation Prize for childhood cancer drug
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Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
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