Yes! I just can't believe it.

This Christmas, you could be a millionaire.

Get your lotto ticket for tonight's draw.

The National Lottery.

Rules and procedures apply.

Players must be 18 or over.

This week, predicting the election.

Spoiler alert, we can't.

The future is just inherently unpredictable.

It would give us comfort if we had a way of perfectly predicting it, but we certainly don't have that.

And making mice from egg cells grown from scratch in a dish.

Until I saw the babies, I didn't imagine that these are really functional.

Plus the super bright flares hidden in an astronomy archive.

This is the Nature Podcast for October the 20th, 2016.

I'm Adam Levy.

And I'm Kerry Smith.

On the 8th of May 2015, a British politician ate his hat on national television.

This was the day after the UK's general election, an election that the polls had been saying hung in the balance, with no party popular enough to form a government.

But then their exit polls started to come in, the surveys that

ask voters as they leave the polling station how they've just voted. And the exit polls predicted

an easy majority for one party, the Conservatives. Lots of people were shocked by this new prediction.

None more than that politician Paddy Ashdown, who declared on live TV,

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