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This week: the latest result from the Large Hadron Collider, brainy birds pass a spot-the-difference test that monkeys fail, a look at India’s scientific landscape, and what the UK election might mean for science.

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This week: computers that mimic the human brain, the origins of complex cells, how to clone a mammoth – and should older researchers retire to make room for young blood?

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This week: a tiny dinosaur with bat-like wings, the low-down on the best new science books this spring, we discuss the gene editing of a human embryo, and the controversy surrounding the RIKEN lab.

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This week: bees addicted to pesticides, a new treatment for Ebola, why octopuses have no rhythm, bacterial bonanza found in Amazon tribe - and why is Oklahoma experiencing hundreds of artificial earthquakes?

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This week: how ‘love hormone’ oxytocin affects the brain, a look at what causes our knuckles to crack, one family’s very personal connection to the Hubble Space Telescope - and the mystery of the bright spots on Ceres deepens.

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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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