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1. International Women’s Day –  a day for all

   Cara Shearer talks about International Women's Day and what it means to her.

2. LightNight 2019

   Business Studies student Julia Harrison shares her favourite cultural events from Light Night 2019

3. How chimp DNA techniques turned us into jungle detectives

   Wild chimpanzees are hard to find, but their DNA – left-behind genetic traces – is opening up a new way of studying them, write experts Alexander Piel and Fiona Stewart

4. Exam top tips

   Business Studies student, Julia Harrison, shares her top tips in preparing for exams.

5. The Moon: facts, fascination and the future

   We talk to Professor Andy Newsam, Director of the National Schools’ Observatory, about the Apollo 11 Moon landing and learn some interesting facts about the Moon along the way.

6. Footprint fossils suggest lizards have been running on two feet for 110 million years

   Bipedal movement has existed in modern reptiles for much longer than we previously knew, writes Dr Peter Falkingham

7. Will genetically modified pets soon be reality or do they already live among us?

   Demelza Kooij's film The Breeder considers the darker implications of our cultural fetish with cute.

8. Chimpanzee ‘nests’ shed light on the origins of humanity

   Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, and observing them in the wild helps us reconstruct how our ancestors adapted to a changing environment millions of years ago, write Drs Alexander Piel and Fiona Stewart

9. Human ancestors had the same dental problems as us – even without fizzy drinks and sweets

   Prehistoric humans and their predecessors may have had a very different diet but their teeth suffered in similar ways to ours, writes anthropology lecturer Dr Ian Towle

10. World Hijab Day: Let’s celebrate!

    Saturday 1 February 2020 marks the 7th World Hijab celebration; a celebration which takes place in over 140 countries worldwide, bringing communities together sharing and experiencing the Hijab.