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10 excellent BBC podcasts to boost your brain on the bus © Getty Images

Everyday science

10 excellent BBC podcasts to boost your brain on the bus

Could a pH greater than 14 exist? © Getty Images

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Could a pH greater than 14 exist?

Does it take more effort to swim in the deep end of a pool than the shallow end? © Getty Images

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Does it take more effort to swim in the deep end of a pool than the shallow end?

What causes bath bombs to fizz? © Shutterstock

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What causes bath bombs to fizz?

Why are some materials magnetic? © Getty Images

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Why are some materials magnetic?

Does science have a problem with women?

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Why aren’t there more women in science?

There's something inscrutable and mysterious about liquids © Getty Images

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There’s something inscrutable and mysterious about liquids

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What’s on at the British Science Festival 2018

How was the length of a second first calculated? © Getty Images

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How was the length of a second first calculated?

A scene from the film 'Jack The Ripper', 1959. (Photo by Paramount/Getty Images)

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Identifying Jack the Ripper: old clues, new science

Why does laundry smell better if it’s been hung up outside? © Getty Images

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Why does laundry smell better if it’s been hung up outside?

Was maths invented or discovered? © Getty Images

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Was maths invented or discovered?

Figure of a deer, moulded from electrum, dating back to the Thracian-Getan civilisation in the 4th Century BC © Getty Images

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What colour metal would a gold and silver mix be?

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Who really discovered the law of gravity?