Ranked #1
#3: Coronavirus latest, a woman with half a brain, and love drugs
#3: Coronavirus latest, a woman with half a brain, and love drugs
Just when we thought we were seeing a decline in the number of Wuhan coronavirus cases, there has been a sharp uptick in... Read more
14 Feb 2020
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26mins
Ranked #2
#4: Lab-grown meat, Neanderthal burials, and space tourism
#4: Lab-grown meat, Neanderthal burials, and space tourism
Would you eat lab-grown meat? The guilt-free, environmentally friendly animal alternative will be hitting our shelves th... Read more
21 Feb 2020
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28mins
Ranked #3
#37: Black holes and CRISPR gene editing spring Nobel surprises; climate change and indigenous people in the Arctic; symptom clusters identified for covid-19
#37: Black holes and CRISPR gene editing spring Nobel surprises; climate change and indigenous people in the Arctic; symptom clusters identified for covid-19
This year’s Nobel prize season has been the most thrilling in ages. Not only are we celebrating fascinating scientific b... Read more
8 Oct 2020
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31mins
Ranked #4
#36: Hunt for life on Venus and Mars; how the paleo diet affects your age; strategy for the second wave of coronavirus; species extinction crisis
#36: Hunt for life on Venus and Mars; how the paleo diet affects your age; strategy for the second wave of coronavirus; species extinction crisis
Hopes of discovering life on Venus have been dampened somewhat as the sheer scale of the task becomes clear. But don’t g... Read more
1 Oct 2020
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32mins
Ranked #5
#34: Race to find life on Venus; coronavirus claims lives of 1 million people; extinction crisis; how the brain slows time
#34: Race to find life on Venus; coronavirus claims lives of 1 million people; extinction crisis; how the brain slows time
Move over Mars - Venus might actually be the best place to find alien life in our solar system. Phosphine, a molecule th... Read more
17 Sep 2020
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33mins
Ranked #6
#29: Loneliness during lockdown; medical artificial intelligence beats doctors; who gets the coronavirus vaccine first
#29: Loneliness during lockdown; medical artificial intelligence beats doctors; who gets the coronavirus vaccine first
By now we’re all feeling the effects of video call fatigue. Even though we’ve found new ways to connect with each other ... Read more
13 Aug 2020
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31mins
Ranked #7
#17: The truth about our appetites, the impact of coronavirus on conservation, mud volcanoes on Mars
#17: The truth about our appetites, the impact of coronavirus on conservation, mud volcanoes on Mars
Rather than simply eating until we are full, humans selectively try to eat the right amounts of three macronutrients – p... Read more
22 May 2020
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30mins
Ranked #8
#15: Mystery of radio signals from deep space; the future of music; epidemic of bad coronavirus science
#15: Mystery of radio signals from deep space; the future of music; epidemic of bad coronavirus science
MIDI, the digital encoding technology that revolutionised music production in the 1980s, is getting an upgrade. We explo... Read more
8 May 2020
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28mins
Ranked #9
#14: Dreams, sleep and coronavirus, a new explanation of consciousness, brain-stimulation anorexia treatment
#14: Dreams, sleep and coronavirus, a new explanation of consciousness, brain-stimulation anorexia treatment
Is the coronavirus crisis giving you bad dreams? Anxiety and stress about covid-19 has changed our sleeping patterns and... Read more
1 May 2020
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31mins
Ranked #10
#13: Evidence for a parallel universe, protecting mental health in lockdown, why covid-19 hits men harder
#13: Evidence for a parallel universe, protecting mental health in lockdown, why covid-19 hits men harder
We might have the first evidence for the mind-blowing idea that there is a parallel universe to our own, an antimatter u... Read more
24 Apr 2020
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29mins
Ranked #11
#12: Strength training for better health, bats mimic sound, biggest ever supernova
#12: Strength training for better health, bats mimic sound, biggest ever supernova
While much of the world is still on lockdown and with global cases of coronavirus now over two million, one positive thi... Read more
17 Apr 2020
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21mins
Ranked #12
#11: Covid World, coronavirus in New York, invasion of parakeets, bacteria and their amazing powers
#11: Covid World, coronavirus in New York, invasion of parakeets, bacteria and their amazing powers
The United States now accounts for one-fifth of all new coronavirus cases globally, with New York at the epicentre with ... Read more
10 Apr 2020
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31mins
Ranked #13
#10: Coronavirus questions answered, revolution in human evolution, mind-reading computers
#10: Coronavirus questions answered, revolution in human evolution, mind-reading computers
There’s still so much uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, from the symptoms and spreadability to matters like how long you... Read more
3 Apr 2020
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25mins
Ranked #14
#9: Coronavirus lockdown – how to flatten the curve, reset the immune system, and the world’s most hardcore mammal
#9: Coronavirus lockdown – how to flatten the curve, reset the immune system, and the world’s most hardcore mammal
The UK government says they are going to distribute millions of covid-19 coronavirus testing kits in the next few days, ... Read more
27 Mar 2020
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33mins
Ranked #15
#8: Coronavirus special – disaster preparation, environmental change and disease emergence; plus science round-up
#8: Coronavirus special – disaster preparation, environmental change and disease emergence; plus science round-up
The actions taken now by countries and governments globally is crucial in limiting the impact of the covid-19 coronaviru... Read more
20 Mar 2020
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34mins
Ranked #16
#7: Coronavirus vaccine, neutrinos in the early universe, and organ transplants
#7: Coronavirus vaccine, neutrinos in the early universe, and organ transplants
Everyone wants a coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible - but what is involved, and how long will it take? On the panel... Read more
13 Mar 2020
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25mins
Ranked #17
#6: Coronavirus special - the spread of covid-19, fatality rates, and the importance of hand washing
#6: Coronavirus special - the spread of covid-19, fatality rates, and the importance of hand washing
Governments globally are taking serious measures to halt the spread of the covid-19 coronavirus, from shutting schools t... Read more
6 Mar 2020
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33mins
Ranked #18
#5: Pandemic preparations, mind-reading – and a trillion trees
#5: Pandemic preparations, mind-reading – and a trillion trees
As the covid-19 coronavirus spreads around the globe, we’ve been warned to prepare for a pandemic. On the panel this wee... Read more
28 Feb 2020
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27mins
Ranked #19
#51: Covid evolution; new dinosaur; missing genome data
#51: Covid evolution; new dinosaur; missing genome data
As we continue to discover new mutant variants of the covid-19 virus, the team looks at how these will impact vaccinatio... Read more
22 Jan 2021
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26mins
Ranked #20
#2: Weird quantum experiment, origin of the alphabet, and coronavirus developments
#2: Weird quantum experiment, origin of the alphabet, and coronavirus developments
Being in two different places at once — it's one of the deeply weird things that happens in the quantum realm. On the pa... Read more
7 Feb 2020
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22mins