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Would you eat meat that had been grown from cultured cells in a lab? If you’d asked me that question when we first started thinking about the latest episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast about meat substitutes, I’d have probably said no way.
But listening to researchers explain to my co-host, Dan Merino, the science behind how meat is grown in a lab, and the ethical questions surrounding it, I think I’d probably give it a go now. As moral psychologist Matti Wilkes puts it, cultured meat “doesn’t require people to make moral change” by entirely giving up beef or chicken – and that could be the fastest way to get humanity to eat less animal meat. Subscribe to listen to the
episode, which also explores how the mimicry in plant-based meat works.
Another group of scientists are trying to detect a type of gravitational wave that could reveal what the Big Bang sounded like. And we’ve been hearing how extreme stress can affect the body – and how
to learn to cope with it.
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Gemma Ware
Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast
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Would you eat cultured meat?
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Gemma Ware, The Conversation; Daniel Merino, The Conversation
Plus, new research from Indonesia on the relationship between cigarette advertising near schools and children smoking.
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What happened during the Big Bang?
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Francesco Muia, University of Cambridge
How scientists are planning to listen to the sound of the big bang with a gravitational wave detector that would fit in a kitchen.
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Emma Raducanu was forced to retire after experiencing breathing difficulties.
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Andrew Wilkinson, Loughborough University; Jamie Barker, Loughborough University
Many elite athletes experience intense pressure, which can often manifest itself in many physical ways.
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Health + Medicine
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Colin Foad, Cardiff University
How the public thinks and feels about restrictions is far more complicated and conflicted than is typically reported.
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James Clifford Kent, Royal Holloway University of London; Sarah Lloyd-Fox, University of Cambridge
First-hand family accounts and photographs trace the difficulties and traumas of giving birth and looking after a baby during a pandemic.
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Peter Wark, University of Newcastle
COVID vaccines don't contain any live virus to shed. Here's the science to put the myth of viral shedding after the COVID vaccine to bed.
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Rob Reddick, The Conversation
Some deaths among the vaccinated are to be expected given how high the threat of COVID-19 is to older people.
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Environment + Energy
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Alex Ford, University of Portsmouth; Kate Spencer, Queen Mary University of London
Killer whales among the animals at risk from a 'second wave' of pollutants, as coasts erode and sea levels rise.
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Peter Cruddas, University of Portsmouth; Keiron Philip Roberts, University of Portsmouth
Victorian-era engineering is struggling under decades of underinvestment.
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Joshua Kirshner, University of York; Daniela Salite, University of York; Matthew Cotton, Teesside University
Colonialism, political turmoil and unmet citizen promises all lie behind the rise of attacks on foreign-run fossil fuel plants in Mozambique.
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Business + Economy
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Heather McGregor, Heriot-Watt University
There have been winners and losers – and not all of them were predictable.
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Seth I. Kirby, Nottingham Trent University
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games won't have in-person spectators. What does this mean for local sponsors?
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Science + Technology
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Imtiaz Khan, Cardiff Metropolitan University; Ali Shahaab, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Videos taken by ordinary people can help prosecute those who commit atrocities – but this evidence must be stored reliably.
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Charles Helm, Nelson Mandela University
There are no body fossils of elephants from this time period, so the available information of how these gigantic animals moved through the ancient landscapes depends entirely on the track record.
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Politics + Society
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Marcin Kaczmarski, University of Glasgow; Kasia Kaczmarska, University of Edinburgh
The two leaders ignored the most pressing global issue to concentrate on the status quo issues of security and arms control.
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Guy Lamb, Stellenbosch University
An uncomfortable reality is that looting is perceived by the looters to be socially acceptable and is often encouraged and endorsed within social and community networks.
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Philip Seargeant, The Open University
The story of the pandemic, in emojis.
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