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Virtual Reality Is About To Change Everything
BBC Knowledge (Asia Edition)

Virtual Reality Is About To Change Everything

This year, virtual reality will finally come of age. The headsets won’t just be worn by gamers: this revolutionary technology is set to change everything. From booking a holiday to visiting the doctor, our lives are about to get a whole lot more virtual...

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April 2016
Explore The World's First Christian Art In Asia
BBC Knowledge (Asia Edition)

Explore The World's First Christian Art In Asia

Asian civilisations museum launches the world’s inaugural exhibition.

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July 2016
True Blue
BBC Earth

True Blue

They’re very fussy about the hole they live in and they eat fruit that would burn our skin off. Grand Cayman’s blue iguanas are definitely one of a kind, says Katie Stacey

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March 2018
Ancient ‘Pac-Man' Frog May Have Dined On Dinosaurs
BBC Earth

Ancient ‘Pac-Man' Frog May Have Dined On Dinosaurs

Paleontology

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March 2018
Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets Found
BBC Earth

Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets Found

The system of planets found orbiting nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 may be our best chance yet of finding alien life.

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June 2017
Biochemistry
BBC Earth

Biochemistry

Chemists have added synthetic letters to bacterial DNA. Study leader Prof Floyd Romesberg explains how this could expand the genetic code to make proteins never before seen in nature.

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June 2017
NASA To Explore Metal Asteroid For The First Time
BBC Earth

NASA To Explore Metal Asteroid For The First Time

Consider us psyched. NASA will be sending a probe to a distant metal asteroid for the first time ever. The mission was selected from five finalists as part of NASA’s Discovery Program.

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June 2017
City Slickers
BBC Earth

City Slickers

With the help of Singapore’s residents, smooth-coated otters have returned to the heart of the city. Katie Stacey went to find out how they were enticed back.

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June 2017
01 Experiment With Our Food
BBC Earth

01 Experiment With Our Food

Want to cook up a delicious meal? It’s not just about the food. We chat to psychologist Prof Charles Spence about the strange science of gastrophysics.

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June 2017
Miniaturised Wacky Races
BBC Earth

Miniaturised Wacky Races

Forget Formula 1 – cars the size of molecules came to France to race on a track made of gold. Rob Banino sizes up the competition

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December 2016
Robin Ince on… Comedy and Mental Health
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Robin Ince on… Comedy and Mental Health

“Some Believe That if You’re Joking About Something, You Haven’t Come to Terms With It ”

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December 2016
Nasa's Mining Bot Gets Rolling
BBC Earth

Nasa's Mining Bot Gets Rolling

We definitely dig this. NASA has started testing the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR).

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January 2017
Canberra, Australia's Charming Capital City
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Canberra, Australia's Charming Capital City

What was once known as a sheep town has now transformed into a scenic hinterland, filled with superb monuments and galleries for both educational and leisure purposes

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January 2017
This Viral Immunotherapy Appears To Be More Potent Than Others That Have Been Before
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This Viral Immunotherapy Appears To Be More Potent Than Others That Have Been Before

A team has created designer viruses that help the immune system target tumours. One of the researchers, Prof Daniel Pinschewer, describes this new approach to cancer therapy

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October 2017
This Queen Has Had No Equal On This Earth For 500 Years
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This Queen Has Had No Equal On This Earth For 500 Years

She was one half of a 15th-century power couple that united Spain and helped propel the west towards global dominance. Of all Europe’s queens, argues Giles Tremlett, surely none had a greater impact than Isabella of Castile

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October 2017
Where Are All The Habitable Planets?
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Where Are All The Habitable Planets?

The number of known planets is increasing all the time, but how soon can we expect to find life? Stuart Clark takes a closer look.

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September 2015
The Cholesterol Drug Controversy
BBC Earth

The Cholesterol Drug Controversy

THE DEBATE ABOUT STATINS SHOWS THAT SCIENCE CAN’T ALWAYS SUPPLY EASY ANSWERS

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September 2017
My Life Scientific
BBC Earth

My Life Scientific

This month, volcanologist Prof Twnsin Mather talks to Helen Pilcher about getting up close and personal with one of most destructive forces

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September 2017
Meet The Plant Messiah
BBC Earth

Meet The Plant Messiah

Carlos Magdalena is on a mission to save the plants. From his base at Kew Gardens, he travels the world to rescue tropical species from extinction. The botanical horticulturalist talks to James Lloyd

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September 2017
What Causes Turbulence?
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What Causes Turbulence?

“PLANES CAN COPE WITH TURBULENCE, SO ALTHOUGH MY TEA MIGHT GET SPILT, THERE’S LITTLE DANGER”

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September 2017
Can We Trust Artificial Intelligence?
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Can We Trust Artificial Intelligence?

Deep learning is used in everything from speech recognition software to the assessment of mortgage applications. The only trouble is, we don’t really know how it works…

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March 2018
Celebrate Our Pets
BBC Earth

Celebrate Our Pets

It seems we can’t get enough of our animal companions. But why do we keep pets at all? John Bradshaw argues that the answer can be found deep in our evolutionary past. 

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January 2018
Meet Your Second Brain
BBC Earth

Meet Your Second Brain

Decision-making, mood, disease… scientists are discovering that the network of neurons in our gut is involved in a lot more than just digestion .

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March 2017
Winston Churchill: Atomic Warrior, Nuclear Peacemaker
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Winston Churchill: Atomic Warrior, Nuclear Peacemaker

At the dawn of the Cold War, Churchill was one of the west’s leading champions of the atomic bomb. But, as Britain found itself in the crosshairs of a Soviet attack, his attitude changed – and that, writes Kevin Ruane, set him at odds with the United States.

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March 2017
Scientists Reverse Signs Of Ageing
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Scientists Reverse Signs Of Ageing

 New genetic treatment using stem cells suggests we can trun back the clock on old age.

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March 2017
Go Wild In Australia
BBC Earth

Go Wild In Australia

Experience close encounters with Australia’s extraordinary wildlife renowned around the world

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August 2017
A Surgeon With A Secret
BBC Earth

A Surgeon With A Secret

As part of our occasional series profiling remarkable yet unheralded characters from history, Jeremy Dronfield introduces Dr James Barry, the medical pioneer and eminent surgeon to aristocracy, who was forced to conceal a fundamental fact – that ‘he’ was in fact a ‘she’

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August 2017
How Africa Is Learning to Cope With Drought
BBC Earth

How Africa Is Learning to Cope With Drought

New technologies are helping ethiopians to stave off famine

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August 2017
Where Does Time Come From?
BBC Earth

Where Does Time Come From?

US physicist Prof Richard Muller thinks that new chunks of time could be created as the universe expands. And he wants to peer into the heart of colliding black holes to prove it…

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July 2017
The Six Wives In A Different Light
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The Six Wives In A Different Light

From the scheming sophisticate who lost her head, to the hapless ‘mare’ who repulsed the king, the reputations of Henry VIII’s spouses are secure. But do the stereotypes stand up to scrutiny? Lucy Worsley investigates

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July 2017

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