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A fasting prime minister and a mind-reading billionaire: the week in science

Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss the big science stories of the week – from news that Elon Musk’s Neuralink has implanted its first chip into a human, to research suggesting Alzheimer’s can pass between humans in rare medical accidents, and the revelation that Rishi Sunak begins each week with a 36-hour fast. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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  AI, algorithms and apps: can dating be boiled down to a science?

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  Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive?

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  How much protein is too much?

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  Why are the world’s cities sinking?

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  The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

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  The stream of plastic pollution: could a global treaty help us turn off th…

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  From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic?

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  Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity?

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  Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead?

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  Soundscape ecology: a window into a disappearing world

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  The senior Swiss women who went to court over climate change, and won

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  Remembering physicist Peter Higgs

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  Horny tortoises and solar mysteries: what scientists can learn from a tota…

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  The science of ‘weird shit’: why we believe in fate, ghosts and conspiracy…

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  Hypermobility: a blessing or a curse?

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  The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS