This week: the origins of the Moon, blind rats get a magnetic sixth sense, the latest wonder material to hit the big-time, and the Brontosaurus makes a re-entry into the dinosaur family tree.

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This week: boots that improve the efficiency of walking, protecting endangered species, science in the run-up to the UK general election, and the 'Angelina Jolie effect' on genetic testing.

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This week: the role of black holes in growing galaxies, how mudskipper fish slurp up prey with a watery ‘tongue’, Dragon’s Den for scientists, graphene sandwich makes a new form of ice - and an inside look at the first pig biobank.

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Sometimes, adults or children experience the symptoms of a brain tumor – headaches and vision problems – without an actual tumor. The formal name for this mysterious condition is Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome. Shana McCormack thinks that insights from kidney biology might help us to understand it. She's our podcast guest this month.

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This week: the myopia epidemic sweeping across East Asia, early scientific photography at the London Science Museum, plants get picky about their pollen partners, the British genome unveiled and American universities scout out new weed dealers.

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Is music simply a pleasant accompaniment to thought, or a driving force behind it? This show examines music’s influence on the development of modern science and the foundations of acoustics. Lute music courtesy of Naxos Licensing.

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This week: how English became the dominant language of science, the earliest human fossil to date, menopausal killer whales lead the hunt, defining the Anthropocene, and how Apple’s ResearchKit allows researchers to recruit for clinical studies.

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This week: Ebola's impact on mothers-to-be, the human family tree gets even more tangled, quantifying the risk of volcanoes, and robo-rescuers battle it out in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

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This week: food additives with health risks, astronomers prepare to take a close look at Pluto and Ceres, how DNA damage continues for several hours after sunbathing, and measuring pain in the brain – is it ready for the courtroom?

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This week: why the concept of sex might not be binary, how increasing winds could cause coastal dead-zones, the future US megadroughts set to be the worst in 1,000 years, and the grave threat facing museum collections.

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