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5 Live Science Podcast

A gaming special & The best of 2024

December 22, 202451 min · 9,817 words

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team look back at some of 2024's top science stories, and in part 2 hand over to our Naked Gamers… Chris Berrow and Leigh Milner for a gaming special, featuring: A world record. the game that took 22 years to make has finally been released! Video games without the video… we’ll check out an audio-only release. And what does 2025 have in store for gamers?

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What this mutation is essentially doing is sending the dog's body a starvation signal and the body is responding very sensibly by increasing food intake and also by dialing down how much energy they're burning off to keep the body running.
the mutation was more common in guide dogs than it was in pet dogs. And that leads to this very kind of tantalising, very tempting hypothesis that maybe we have inadvertently bred our high-performing dogs to be a bit foodier because if you're foodier, you'll do anything for a biscuit and it makes you a bit more trainable.

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