#6: Coronavirus special - the spread of covid-19, fatality rates, and the importance of hand washing

#6: Coronavirus special - the spread of covid...

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The Mystery of Childbirth Is Finally Being Unravelled

Episode 399 Some aspects of childbirth have remained surprisingly mysterious - and scientists haven’t been able to agree on what actually kicks off the labour process. But they’ve finally worked out what’s going on - and the discovery could turn birth into a much more predictable ...  Show more

AI Just Solved One of the Hardest Problems in Mathematics

Episode 398 OpenAI says it has just solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics. The Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem has been unsolved for more than 200 years. Now AI has cracked it, some claim we’ve finally reached “AGI” - artificial general intelligence. Na ...  Show more

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