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Vaccine trials seeking volunteers, a fossil that could solve a mystery, and a new phase for the Opal project.

The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's Science Communication MSc course and the presenter of , with contributions from our roaming reporters from the Research Communications group.

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– The quest to explain why matter survived the Big Bang continues, and questions arise over India’s diabetes screening programme.

– 51³Ô¹ÏÍø is recruiting healthy volunteers to take part in the first trials of two new Ebola vaccines. (Full story)

 – Pentastomids, which live inside vertebrates, have been around for much longer than their hosts – so how did they live before? explains how a new fossil discovery provides an answer.

– As 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s environmental citizen science project rolls out across the UK, David Slawson tells us what we’ve learnt so far.