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What makes gingers ginger?

Plus, what is the point of body hair?

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How do you make the perfect cup of tea?

Plus, why do we cry? Is there any useful purpose?

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Why do people shout on their cellphones?

And what causes traffic jams?

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Why do we faint?

And can animals count?

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Could we send our litter into space?

Plus, why is everything in space round?

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Reversing Parkinson's

Cell therapies for Parkinson鈥檚 disease

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The Whale Menopause

What do killer whales tell us about the human menopause?

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Black Holes: A Tale of Cosmic Death and Rebirth

LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and the new astronomy of nature鈥檚 ultimate state of matter

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Creating the Crick

Creating the Francis Crick Institute

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The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic

Peter Gibbs explores Ascension Island, a barren Atlantic rock made fertile by man

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The Sun King of China

Meet the undisputed leader of China's booming solar industry

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The City that Fell into the Earth

How do you move a city? Lesley Riddoch travels to Arctic Sweden to find out

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The Inflamed Mind

Can your immune system make you psychotic or depressed?

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Custom of Cutting

An investigation into female genital mutilation in East and West Africa

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Mind Reading

Gaia Vince explores how scientists are trying to read others' minds.

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Origins of Human Culture

What鈥檚 special about human culture

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Science Stories: Series 3 - Making the Earth Move

How a dying man's book demoted the earth and reconstructed the universe.

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Science Stories: Series 3 - Testosterone: Elixir of Masculinity

How testosterone has been used and abused in history

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Science Stories: Series 3 - The Woman Who Tamed Lightning

Hertha Ayrton was the first woman admitted to the Institution of Electrical Engineers

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Science Stories: Series 3 - Mesmerism and Parapsychology

The showmanship of Anton Mesmer and the rise and fall of animal magnetism

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The Future of the Climate Deal

What will President Trump mean for international deals to avert climate change?

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Sesame Open

The new science facility, SESAME, that aims to promote peace in the middle east

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Does nothing exist?

Does nothing really exist, and where can we find it?

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Why do we get middle-aged spread?

Plus, what鈥檚 the strongest substance in the world?

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Does the full Moon make us act oddly?

And could we live on another planet?

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Why am I left-handed?

What determines left or right handedness and why are lefties in the minority?

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Why do some people have no sense of direction?

Plus, why is my mum tone deaf?

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Make Me a Cyborg

Are human cyborgs set to become a reality? Frank Swain investigates.

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Delivering Clean Air

More delivery vans means more air pollution in our cities. What are the alternatives?

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Human Hibernation

Could humans pull off the trick of hibernation to conquer long term space travel?

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