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Organ Transplants and Xenotransplantation
Taking a living organ from one person and making it work inside another is one of medicine’s most astonishing achievements — and the biggest obstacle…
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Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
In 2006 Pluto was famously “demoted” from planet to dwarf planet, and plenty of people are still cross about it — but the real story is far more inte…
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Carbon – The Element That Makes Life Possible
Every living thing on Earth is built around a single element, and it isn’t there by accident — carbon has a chemical talent that no other element can…
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Genetics of Inheritance – Why You Look Like Your Parents
Your smile, your eye colour, the shape of your nose — you carry echoes of your parents in your very cells. This episode unpacks the genetics of inher…
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Voyager – Humanity’s Farthest Messengers
Launched in the 1970s with less computing power than a modern key fob, two small spacecraft have journeyed further from home than anything humanity h…
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Renewable Energy – Sun, Wind and Water
The world is racing to shift how it makes electricity, away from burning fossil fuels and towards energy drawn from the sun, the wind and moving wate…
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Chemical Bonds – Why Atoms Stick Together
Everything around you — water, salt, metal, your own body — exists because atoms join together in a few specific ways. This episode explains chemical…
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The Gut-Brain Connection
We talk about “gut feelings” and “butterflies in the stomach” as if they’re just figures of speech, but there’s a genuine, physical conversation happ…
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Living in Space – What Zero-G Does to the Body
Floating weightlessly in orbit looks like the ultimate freedom, but the human body evolved under gravity’s constant pull, and taking that pull away d…
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The Ozone Layer – A Problem We Actually Fixed
High above our heads sits a thin, invisible shield of gas that makes life on land possible — and in the twentieth century we very nearly destroyed it…
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