This week: What soils do for us, higher resolution ultrasound, Mars getting a ring, GM salmon, and mosquitoes with ‘gene drives’ that prevent malarial transmission.

This week: A nursery for big baby planets, meddling with taste perception, China’s mega water transfer plan, and the 100th anniversary of general relativity.

This week: Storms on Twitter over sexism in science, gene editing, porous liquids, and the long relationship between humans and bees.

This month's GenePod discusses the use of next generation sequencing in newborn screening. The findings of the researchers and their interpretation leave much room for additional research and conversation.

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This week: Spontaneously jumping droplets, growing an economy without trashing the environment, and dealing with an onslaught of data as all our gadgets become internet-enabled.

This week: How cancers spread, the hallmarks of bipolar disorder in the brain, and making carbon dioxide useful.

This month GenePod explores clinical approaches to dealing with the difficult but inevitable problem of how to handle secondary (incidental) findings in genomic analysis.

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This week: A dying solar system just like ours, the effect of temperature on the economy, and electricity-eating bacteria.

this week: C. elegans, the neuroscientists’ favourite worm, has had all its brain cells mapped. Then researchers found 2 more. D’oh! What do they do and how were they missed? Plus: early human migration; simulating a tiny piece of brain on a huge computer; and using vultures as mobile weather stations.

This week: an impenetrable mathematical proof, toggling REM sleep on and off, and the latest results from the Rosetta mission.