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This is the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and

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Coming up today, what the COVID app that at least 18 million people used in the UK

across the pandemic has revealed about how

diseases spread. The first proper peer-reviewed analysis of the data has now been

published. Also AI boosts productivity for writers, but it makes stories more samey, scientists say.

So are we willing to trade boring for productive?

And former science minister David Wilits on the appointment of Sir Patrick Valence to his

old job in government. From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the

Naked Scientists. continuing education, this is the naked scientists.

First this week, during the height of the recent coronavirus pandemic we were urged to install the government's COVID-19 app on our mobile phones

Which would ping to notify us that we've been in close proximity to someone who had the virus.

Many were concerned about the app on a number of levels, including encroachment on personal liberties,

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