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155: The Birth of Lightning
Plus, sea dragons, superheated plasma, gold-coated cosmic eyes, and good news on global child mortality, girls' education in Tanzania, animal rights in Italy and a game-changing new regulation on renewables in China.
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162: Russian Warship, Go F*ck Yourself
Plus, the energy of freedom, Endurance, love as biological bribery, and good news on bilharzia, renewables in California, and a new national park in Chile.
161: Moon Trees
Plus, the Great Smushing, an incredible gene therapy story, Russia-China realpolitik, and good news on women's rights in Colombia, cancer in Japan, electric trucks, and the return of the Tequila Fish.
No 152: Space Tacos
Plus, ghost ancestors, the most impressive computer vision we've ever seen, good news on stroke rates, the recovery of a Saharan antelope, and conservation in the Pacific.