00:46 Data stored in glass

Nature: Microsoft Research Project Silica Team

Nature: Microsoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts for millennia

08:09 Research Highlights

Nature: Parasitic wasps use tamed virus to castrate caterpillars

Nature: Flexible joints: robot morphs into a range of cyborg species

10:10 An mRNA vaccine for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Nature: Sahin et al.

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00:26 Moderate caffeine intake might reduce dementia risk, study suggests

Nature: Coffee linked to slower brain ageing in study of 130,000 people

04:15 Using AI to work out the rules of a long-forgotten board game

Scientific American: Rules of mysterious ancient Roman board game decoded by AI

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00:46 The immune cells that eat waste fats from fruit flies’ brains

Nature: Cho et al.

10:21 Research Highlights

Nature: Beetle is locked into an eternal dance ― with an ant

Nature: Super-sniffer aeroplane finds oil fields’ hidden emissions

12:41 Ancient DNA evidence reveals a nuanced story of the Bell Beaker Expansion

Nature: Olalde et al.

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00:42 External, artificial-lung system keeps patient alive for transplant

Nature: 48 hours without lungs: artificial organ kept man alive until transplant

06:22 How lung cancer in mice hijacks neurons to outwit the immune system

Nature: How tumours trick the brain into shutting down cancer-fighting cells

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00:46 Understanding how rete ridges form in the skin

Nature: Thompson et al.

09:32 Research Highlights

Nature: Genetically engineered ‘stinkweed’ comes up roses for making seed oil

Nature: Largest galaxy survey yet confirms that the Universe is not clumpy enough

11:52 The open-source AI that performs scientific literature reviews

Nature: Asai et al.

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00:36 Study probes genetics of extreme longevity

Nature: Still working at 107: supercentenarian study probes genetics of extreme longevity

05:32 Controlling fluorescent proteins’ brightness with magnets

Nature: ‘Remote controlled’ proteins illuminate living cells

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00:46 Why completing difficult tasks feels rewarding

Nature: Touponse et al.

11:34 Research Highlights

Nature: Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times

Nature: Getting to the (square) root of stock-market swings

13:43 How extreme weather events could threaten malaria elimination efforts

Nature: Symons et al.

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00:24 How babies share their gut microbes

Nature: Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiome

05:25 First evidence of tool use in cattle

Science: No bull: This Austrian cow has learned to use tools

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00:46 Protein-sized superposition surpasses previous experiments

Nature: Pedalino et al.

News: Schrödinger's cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever 'superposition'

11:46 Research Highlights

Nature: Ancient pottery reveals early evidence of mathematical thinking

Nature: Gifted dogs learn new words by overhearing humans

14:11 How Trump’s second term has impacted research

Nature: US science after a year of Trump

Nature: US science in 2026: five themes that will dominate Trump’s second year

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00:40 The rock samples destined to remain on Mars

Nature: NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

05:24 The genetics of dogs’ droopy ears

Nature: Do their ears hang low? The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears

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