Science
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Jacob Wainwright’s diary is only handwritten witness account of missionary’s death -
Nasa probe InSight picks up slight tremor that fits profile of similar episodes on the moon
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Researchers say adding sweet smells to food could cut sugar intake and help tackle obesity
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The second world war ship SS Iron Crown sank after it was torpedoed, killing 38 of its 43 crew -
Robin McKie, the Observer’s science and environment editor, discusses an innovative drug that may soon offer ways to fight Huntington’s disease, while Mark Newnham describes being diagnosed with the inherited condition. Plus: Peter Beaumont describes his trip to the Costa Rican cloud forest, at threat from climate change
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Adolescents sat for eight hours a day in decade to 2016, research shows, while Americans spend three hours a day sitting watching TV or videos -
Study shows how destabilised natural systems will worsen man-made problem -
Science Weekly podcast
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Coffee is a drink adored the world over. But have you ever wondered why a fresh brew smells better than it tastes? Prof Barry Smith has spent his career pondering how the senses work together to produce flavour perception and so Graihagh Jackson invited him into the studio to talk taste -
Science Weekly teams up with the Chips with Everything podcast to examine the environmental price tag of our throwaway culture and how tech may help create a more sustainable model -
Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter has a passion for statistics but some argue this type of number crunching is losing its influence and its ability to objectively depict reality. Nicola Davis and Ian Sample investigate how significant statistics are in today’s ‘post-truth’ world -
With almost half of British adults taking a daily vitamin, Graihagh Jackson and guests examine our love of supplements - including recent announcments about fortifying flour with folic acid
Key issues
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Nobel prize-winning physicist who challenged accepted thinking in key areas
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We have the technology to prevent climate crisis. But now we need to unleash mass resistance too, says environmentalist Bill McKibben -
Young people like Greta represent hope in the face of political inaction. Extinction Rebellion must succeed for their sake, says Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas
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Reinventing the tangram -
The solutions to today’s puzzles -
Logic problems to keep you up all night -
The solutions to today’s puzzles
Multimedia
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Coffee is a drink adored the world over. But have you ever wondered why a fresh brew smells better than it tastes? Prof Barry Smith has spent his career pondering how the senses work together to produce flavour perception and so Graihagh Jackson invited him into the studio to talk taste
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Photographs from history that capture humanity’s exploration of the heavens -
Scientists working on the Event Horizon Telescope project have produced an image of the "unseeable", capturing the world's first picture of a black hole. It took nearly two years for 200 researchers and a network of eight radio telescopes spanning the globe to make the breakthrough, which was previously thought impossible
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Prof Jennifer Doudna, one the pioneers of Crispr-Cas9 gene editing, explains how this revolutionary discovery enables precise changes to our DNA
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Wednesday night’s rare occurrence of a super worm moon coincided with the equinox. The name is a nod to the emergence of worms from the soil around the time of the March full moon -
A rare super worm moon will loom large as it coincides with the spring equinox.
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