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Science focus Podcast: Are Generation Z our only hope for the future? – John Higgs Students and activists participate in a climate change strike on 15 March 2019 in Chicago, USA Scott Olson/Getty Images

John Higgs Are Generation Z our only hope for the future?

Alien contact: Brits pick scientists over politicians for first contact © Getty Images

Alien contact: Brits pick scientists over politicians for first contact

Space exploration: how might the next 50 years progress? © Mitchell Stuart

Space exploration Where will we be in 50 years?

Frank Joseph Malina, a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, gives scale to an early model of the WAC Corporal research rocket. The associated steelwork is the lower section of the vertical launch tower. © Universal Images Group / Getty Images Plus

Nazis, magic and McCarthyism The dark history of early American space exploration

What does a world with an ageing population look like? – Sarah Harper © Getty Images

Sarah Harper What does a world with an ageing population look like?

Five signs that someone is trying to mislead you with statistics © Getty Images

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Five signs that someone is trying to mislead you with statistics

Could leaving nature to its own devices be the key to meeting the UK’s climate goals? (Eurasian beaver © Getty Images)

Mark Lynas Is rewilding key to meeting the UK’s climate goals?

Is science racist? – Angela Saini (Nazi officials use callipers to measure an ethnic German's nose. The Nazis developed a system of facial measurement that was supposedly a way of determining racial descent. The compiled results, based on biased samples, were used to back up the Nazi claim that Germans were a pure and superior

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Angela Saini Is racism creeping into science?

How to stop election hacking © John Holcroft

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Election hacking Can technology safeguard the vote in future elections?

Could geoengineering cause a climate war? © Getty Images

Could geoengineering cause a climate war?

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Five of the biggest hacks in recent memory

A crisis of knowledge: why what we don't know is as important as what we do © Getty Images

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A crisis of knowledge: why what we don’t know matters

Why scapegoating and finger-pointing don’t help anyone © Jason Raish

It wasn't me! Why scapegoating and finger-pointing don’t help anyone

Can science explain everything? - Michael Blastland © Getty Images

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Michael Blastland Can science explain everything?

Nudge theory: ten subtle pushes that change how you think © Getty Images

Everyday science

Nudge theory 10 subtle pushes that change how you think