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Male animal bias is unjustified and can lead to drugs that work less well for women -
Magician John Nevil Maskelyne captured the moon passing in front of the sun while in the US
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Maxar wins $375m deal to build the Lunar Gateway’s power and propulsion element -
Two major studies add to body of evidence against foods made with industrial ingredients -
Study aims to discover whether gut microbes play a part in development of the condition
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Combining ribociclib with hormone therapy found to cut risk of death by up to a third -
New research shows a single 19th century tree in southern Queensland gave rise to the world’s dominant plant variety -
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What happened before the Big Bang? This is one of the hardest questions scientists are trying to answer, but Prof Hiranya Peiris is not daunted by the challenge. Hannah Devlin invited Peiris on the podcast to discuss the origins of our universe -
How do protein substitutes compare with the real deal? Graihagh Jackson investigates -
Access to help for sexual problems is patchy and many fear the consequences of cuts to sexual health services could be profound. Nicola Davis investigates -
Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson concludes a three-part journey into the sonic environment of the ocean examining the possible threats caused to marine life by noise pollution. In this final episode he looks at solutions and discovers an unlikely role for sound artists such as himself
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The awesome vastness of time and space is laid out in its full, jawdropping incomprehensibility by Prof Brian Cox, the Attenborough of outer space
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The education secretary wants to ‘toughen up’ pupils, but that means less structure, not more, says the freelance journalist Richard Godwin -
Anti-abortion activists know that you don’t need to outlaw abortion outright if you can make getting a safe, legal one nearly impossible
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The solution to today’s teaser -
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The solutions to today’s puzzles -
Sudoku variant is a huge hit with puzzle fans
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Science Weekly joins forces with our sister technology podcast, Chips with Everything, to look at the future of weather forecasting -
Photographs from history that capture humanity’s exploration of the heavens -
Scientists working on the Event Horizon Telescope project have produced an image of the "unseeable", capturing the world's first picture of a black hole. It took nearly two years for 200 researchers and a network of eight radio telescopes spanning the globe to make the breakthrough, which was previously thought impossible
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Prof Jennifer Doudna, one the pioneers of Crispr-Cas9 gene editing, explains how this revolutionary discovery enables precise changes to our DNA
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Wednesday night’s rare occurrence of a super worm moon coincided with the equinox. The name is a nod to the emergence of worms from the soil around the time of the March full moon -
A rare super worm moon will loom large as it coincides with the spring equinox.
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