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Don't miss: Risky flights, idiotic experiments and the secrets of life

30 October 2019

This week, watch as fact and fiction meet above Victorian England, learn about our worst military ideas and discover evolution's other hero, Alfred Russel Wallace
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Blossoms: The complex secrets of spring’s simple beauty

25 April 2018

Spring’s delicate riot of colour is a complex story of genes and chemistry and explaining it well turns out to be tough going

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