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Your bite-size guide to this week in science. Join hosts Eleanor Higgs and Rachael Funnell as they discuss the biggest news stories of the week with guests from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprise expert or two. So, let’s Break It Down…
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Friday Sep 05, 2025
Friday Sep 05, 2025
This week on Break It Down: Queen ants are throwing the rules of reproduction out of the window by producing offspring of two different species, for the first time ever we have a complete map of brain activity and boy is it pretty, a new lineage of tropical mammoths have been discovered in Mexico, 150 million-year-old baby pterosaurs have been perfectly preserved thanks to some stormy weather, the controversy surrounding whether Homo naledi might have buried their dead is back, and we explore just how big the biggest egg on Earth really was.
So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down...
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Ants
Brain map
Upload your brain
Tropical mammoths
Bacteria on mammoth teeth
Perfect baby pterosaurs
Cougar submerged
Homo naledi
Biggest Egg
The Big Questions Podcast
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