This week, the resilience of internet hate groups, and searching for early life.

In this episode:

00:46 Tackling internet hate

Researchers have been modelling how hate groups interact online, and have come up with suggestions to combat this activity.

08:55 Research Highlights

Gallstone growth, and the reproductive strategies of hitchhiking stick insects.

11:23 Hunting for early life

Finding fossil evidence of Earth’s earliest life is fraught with difficulty.

Research Article: Javaux

18:43 News Chat

Chemists create a ring made only of carbon atoms, and inoculating newborns with their mothers’ microbes.

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22 August 2019: Combating online hate speech, and identifying early fossils

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