Some of our universe is missing

Published: Aug. 10, 2023, 6 a.m.

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This week on the show that looks for the science behind the news, Marnie Chesterton investigates mystery after mystery. Where is Yevegeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, and could science help to trace him? Which animals would do best at a game of hide and seek? And we hear about the time when half the stuff in the universe went missing, and how cosmologists found it again.

We continue our endless quest to identify the Coolest Science in the World. This week\\u2019s contender studies the murky side of the genome \\u2013 dark DNA. Plus the low-down on the indefinite doctor\\u2019s strike in Nigeria, we look behind the latest news about our warming oceans and have you ever felt someone else\\u2019s pain? You might be the 1 in 50 people known as mirror touch synaesthetes.

All that plus your emails, whatsapps and even more fruit chat.

Presented by Marnie Chesterton\\nProduced by Ben Motley, with Margaret Sessa Hawkins, Alex Mansfield, Sophie Ormiston, Katie Tomsett and Florence Thompson.

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