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Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken?

Does a bit of booze really make us better at languages?

Fact-checking Trump’s autism announcement

Is there hope on the horizon for patients with Alzheimer’s?

Is the US on the brink of a new era of political violence?

Putin’s quest for longevity

Shrinking states: a positive future with fewer people?

Shrinking states: are we on a path to depopulation?

Is curiosity the key to ageing well?

RFK Jr and the chaos at the CDC

‘AI psychosis’: could chatbots fuel delusional thinking?

A decade long mystery - why were billions of starfish turned to goo?

Can science crack the mystery of ME?

Why can’t the world get its act together on plastics?

Staying cool in Europe’s record-breaking heat

Is sunscreen really toxic?

Summer picks: Where do our early childhood memories go?

In this episode of Science Weekly, Ian Sample interviews Professor Nick Turk-Browne about infantile amnesia, the phenomenon where people can't remember events from their early childhood. Professor Turk-Browne discusses his research using fMRI to study memory formation in infants, revealing that the hippocampus shows in...

Summer picks: what is ‘mirror life’ and why are scientists sounding the alarm?

Summer picks: The science of racism, and how to fight it

Summer picks: Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back?