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This week: Science predictions for 2016, the effect of extreme weather on crops, and a new phase of hydrogen for the new year.

This week: Our final show of 2015 – we’re wrapping up the highlights of the year, catching up on the climate meeting in Paris, psyching out the characters in Star Wars, busting some scientific myths, and playing an evolution-themed board game.

This month's GenePod discusses a new study which suggests the incidence of Sickle Cell disease in newborns in Africa and the Middle East may be substantially underestimated. Since we know that early intervention saves lives and reduces morbidity, accurate figures regarding the burden of disease are critical to setting public health priorities.

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This week: The dwarf planet Ceres gets a close-up, using fetal tissue in science, and the wasting condition that worsens outcomes for cancer patients.

This week: The origins of mysterious radio bursts, fixing the PhD system, and tracking down the universe’s missing matter.

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.