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Pain – How the Body Signals Damage
Pain is something we all want less of, yet it’s one of the most important protective systems we have — and it’s far stranger than it seems, because p…
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The Fermi Paradox – Where Is Everybody?
The universe is vast and old, with billions of Sun-like stars and billions of years for life to arise — so by rights the galaxy should be humming wit…
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Epigenetics – Beyond the Genetic Code
Your DNA is often called a blueprint, but a blueprint doesn't explain why a skin cell and a brain cell — carrying identical genes — behave so differe…
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Batteries – How We Store Energy
Batteries are so ordinary we barely notice them, yet the ability to store electricity in a small, portable package underpins phones, laptops, electri…
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The Future of Human Spaceflight – Who Actually Goes?
For decades, sending humans into space meant a handful of government astronauts in low Earth orbit. Now reusable rockets, private companies and renew…
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The Great Barrier Reef – A Living Wonder Under Pressure
Stretching more than two thousand kilometres along Australia's north-east coast, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth — so…
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Pandemics – How Diseases Spread
A pandemic is what happens when a new infectious disease spreads across the globe, and the mathematics of that spread is both simpler and stranger th…
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Animal Intelligence – Minds Unlike Our Own
We tend to measure animal cleverness by how much it resembles our own — but some of the most remarkable minds on Earth are built on entirely differen…
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Water – The Strangest Ordinary Molecule
Water is so familiar we barely notice it, and yet almost everything about it is scientifically peculiar — it breaks the rules that other liquids obey…
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Fossil Fuels – Ancient Sunlight
Coal, oil and gas power most of the modern world, but few of us stop to think about what they actually are: the buried, transformed remains of living…
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