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Why we need to rethink how we talk about cancer
For over a century, cancer has been classified by areas of the body - lung cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer etc. And yet modern medical research is…
2 years, 7 months ago
Cancer's power harnessed — lymphoma mutations supercharge T cells
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0:46 Borrowing tricks from cancer could help improve immunotherapy
T cell based immunotherapies have revolutionised the treatment of c…
2 years, 7 months ago
Cervical cancer could be eliminated: here's how
Cervical cancer is both treatable and preventable, and the WHO has called for countries to come together to to eliminate the disease in the next cent…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ancient DNA solves the mystery of who made a set of stone tools
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0:48 How hominins spread through Europe
Ancient stone tools are often uncovered in Europe, but it can be difficult to identify who cra…
2 years, 8 months ago
Audio long read: Long COVID is a double curse in low-income nations — here’s why
Evidence so far suggests that the prevalence of long COVID in low- and middle-income countries could be similar to that of wealthier countries. For e…
2 years, 8 months ago
Toxic red mud could be turned into 'green' steel
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0:46 Turning a toxic by-product into iron
Red mud is a toxic by-product of aluminium manufacture, and millions of tonnes of it is prod…
2 years, 8 months ago
This AI just figured out geometry — is this a step towards artificial reasoning?
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0:55 The AI that deduces solutions to complex maths problems
Researchers at Google Deepmind have developed an AI that can solve Intern…
2 years, 8 months ago
The science stories you missed over the holiday period
In this episode of the Nature Podcast, we catch up on some science stories from the holiday period by diving into the Nature Briefing.
We chat about: …
2 years, 8 months ago
Science in 2024: what to expect this year
In this episode, reporter Miryam Naddaf joins us to talk about the big science events to look out for in 2024. We'll hear about the mass of the neutr…
2 years, 9 months ago
Audio long read: A new kind of solar cell is coming — is it the future of green energy?
Perovskites are cheap, abundant photovoltaic materials that some have hailed as the future of green energy.
Around the world, companies are layering p…
2 years, 9 months ago