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Horny tortoises and solar mysteries: what scientists can learn from a total eclipse

For most people seeing a total solar eclipse is a once in a lifetime experience. But for scientists it can be a fleeting chance to understand something deeper about their field of research. Madeleine Finlay meets solar scientist prof Huw Morgan, of Aberystwyth University, and Adam Hartstone-Rose, professor of biological sciences at NC State University, to find out what they hoped to learn from 8 April’s four minutes of darkness.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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  The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

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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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  Hypermobility: a blessing or a curse?

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