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Against all the odds, why do women want to join the military?
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The copper kingdom
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Inside the US trans military ban
As the US bans trans people from military service, two officers reveal the personal cost
Iran crisis: your questions answered
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Diabetes in Pakistan: A nation's struggle
Pakistan faces challenges of awareness, healthcare access, and rising cases of Diabetes
The ark of the dry lands
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The kidnapped dead: Germany’s stolen skulls
In 1900, 19 Tanzanian leaders were executed and their skulls shipped to Berlin for study
Dying for a transplant
Following heart failure on-stage, Emmanuel Sonubi explores attitudes to organ donation
The battle for Bangladesh: Eye Investigations
ѿý Eye investigates the deadly uprising that led to the downfall of Sheikh Hasina
Controlling nature's data
Could AI cure cancer using nature's DNA? A London tech firm creates a genome database.
New Zealand: Heading across the ditch
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The Engineers: Exploring the human
'Psychic' communication, blood-bubble drug delivery and ingestible electronics
Birding the gender gap
How studying female birds is reshaping our understanding of nature
Ghost cities FC
The story of two refugee football clubs who once played in the same Soviet league.
White coats v the White House
How cuts, reorganisations and political strong-arming of US science may affect us all
The second map
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Paul McCartney: Beatles and beyond
The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs celebrates the life and legacy of Sir Paul McCartney
Germany's timber detectives
A group of German scientists tackling illegal deforestation
Xi, Kim and Putin: A new world alliance?
Celia Hatton explores the unprecedented show of unity from China, North Korea and Russia
Tequila with the bat man
One conservationist's mission to protect bats and Mexico’s iconic tequila and mezcal
The second map: The battered suitcase
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The microscopic dramas of bacterial loners, crowd-lovers, backstabbers and do-gooders
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Kharkiv: Love In A War Zone
Why one woman chose to live under fire in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv – for love