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Taiwan: what is China's long-term strategy?
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Explaining the 2021 Nobel Prizes: how touch works, a better way to make medicine and the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah
We delve into the achievements behind three of the latest Nobel Prizes. -
New clues to consciousness + AI helps finish Beethoven's 10th symphony
How dopamine fits into the mystery of what makes us conscious -
Germany election winners, losers, and how the Greens emerged as kingmakers + the benefits of saunas
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Have climate change predictions matched reality?
Three climate change experts on how predictions of a changing world are holding up against the reality we're living through. -
Why is Justin Trudeau more popular abroad than in Canada? + Clues on why mosquitoes bite some of us more than others
Plus, new clues on why mosquitoes bite some people more than others. -
Haiti's history of cascading crises and political fragility
And a historian on the experiences of Japanese Americans interned by the US government during World War II. -
Back to school with COVID: how to keep children safe
Plus, new research into what happens in our brains when we daydream. -
The origins of the Taliban
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The biological switch that could turn neuroplasticity on and off in the brain
From the archive: new research helps unpick clues about the brain’s ability to change its structure.
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