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With every breath, we inhale the story of our planet. Sam Kean, author of Caesar’s Last Breath, tells us about the remarkable history of the air around us.
In 2013 the first lab-grown burger was served up, so where are our synthetic steaks now? We look at the cultured meat market and the race to mass-produce in-vitro meat.
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