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Are we one step closer to creating life in a lab?
Researchers say they have created a synthetic cell-like system that can grow and divide.
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Unstoppable: Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou scoured ancient medical texts to find a world-changing treatment for malaria
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What are these strange rocks?
There are some strange rocks on a beach in Indonesia. What are they?
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Finding hidden entrepreneurs
The people turning life experience into business ideas with funding and other support
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Why Taiwan and Malaysia's luxury fruit growers have a complex relationship with China
At the heart of global storytelling, with BBC journalists from all around the world
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Female filmmakers join forces
Film festivals with only women behind the camera
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Live news, business and sport from around the world.
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Patrick Tiernan: War risk is being rewritten
Lloyd’s of London CEO warns that AI and drone warfare are rewriting conflict
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The BRIC architect's warning for the West
How does Jim O'Neill think Western countries should view Brazil, Russia, India and China?
The Kiss of Life photo that earned a Pulitzer Prize
In 1967, a lineman’s lifesaving actions were captured in a prize-winning photo
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Buildings of power and the Dada art movement
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes
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The prisoner who was forced to celebrate a World Cup victory
Miriam Lewin was a political prisoner in 1978 when Argentina won the World Cup
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BBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
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Iran: the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Millions attend public mourning rituals for the former Supreme Leader
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Unstoppable: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered a new stellar object to redefine astrophysics at just 24
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