And the Hello, and this week, how pharmaceutical companies can use what people are looking for online to discover drug side effects.

A new longer term look at the climate suggests things are suddenly warming up,

and a new flame retardant material made from DNA.

Plus, we're getting our teeth into the topic of food security this week.

How long before there are too many mouths to feed and what can we do about it.

We'll also hear how flies might be able to help.

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And joining us this week for a look at the science news headlines is science journalist

Mark Peplo, the deputy news editor at science magazine Dan Cleary and Phil Robinson

from chemistry world so hello to all of you. Mark if we could come to you first can you

tell us about this drug discovery story what's all this about? Yeah so

researchers at Microsoft as well as at Stanford and Columbia Universities in the US have developed software

that control web searches to find evidence of prescription drug side effects.

What they did, they looked at a sample of 82 million different web searches

from back in 2010 and they looked for two particular drug names, an antidepressant called

peroxetine and a cholesterol lowering drug called

Provestatin. And they also looked for phrases associated with a side effect,

high blood sugar. Now that's a side effect, high blood sugar.

Now that's a side effect that's already known to be produced when the two interact.

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