Earth
Why do scientists give some species such unusual names?
The strange ways we name new species and the politics involved is explained in Stephen Heard's book Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
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Space
We know the best spots to look for alien life 鈥� can we get to them?
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Humans
Don’t Miss: Biohackers on Netflix and a book on social isolation
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The way we think about the brain may be completely wrong
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The City We Became review: N. K. Jemisin pits New York against aliens
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Humans
Don’t Miss: absurd animals, the chemical age and DIY dancing
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Humans
Why do so many people become obsessed with UFOs and aliens?
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Don’t Miss: Apple TV’s See, cultural creatures and a virtual ISS
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Physics
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The unsung discoverer of star chemistry
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Humans
Don鈥檛 Miss: US on coronavirus, quake escape and the upside of slowdown
This week, listen as the US debates covid-19, play a struggling survivor of an earthquake-torn city and discover how the planet gains from human progress slowing down
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Humans
Providence review: Chilling sci-fi where an AI becomes god by accident
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Physics
Jim Al-Khalili’s The World According to Physics is a thrilling ride
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Don鈥檛 Miss: Interactive thriller, spring journey and human futures
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Don’t Miss: Sci-fi suburbia, star woman and London Games Festival
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