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World’s First Antimatter Truck Carries Most Valuable And Volatile Substance on Earth

Episode 356 A truck carrying antimatter has been driving around the campus at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider. But why are scientists transporting this delicate and extremely expensive substance? Antimatter is regular matter’s counterpart, first theorised in the 1920s. Pr ...  Show more

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Scientists Can Now Preserve a Brain After Death - What’s Next?

Episode 355 An entire pig’s brain has been preserved after death, using a technique that will keep the structure of the brain intact - potentially for hundreds of years. Scientists say they will offer the treatment to terminally ill humans, in the hopes that one day, in the dista ...  Show more

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