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What would happen if kids and teens were stopped from using social media?

Is it even possible?

This week, Australia decided to find out by implementing a world-first social media ban for under 16s.

We want kids to have the opportunity to enjoy their childhood, and we want parents to be empowered as well to have that discussion.

Although there's growing concern about what time spent on apps like Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok is doing to young developing minds, the evidence is still emerging. But one study suggests social media really could be contributing to inattentiveness in children.

And from the newest mode of human socialisation to the oldest, chatting around a campfire.

And now a groundbreaking discovery shows humans started their own fires 350,000 years earlier than previously known.

So what did more light, warmth and food mean for the development of our early ancestors and cousins?

And in another question of evolution, this week a new strain of MPox turned up in England,

combining elements of two types of the virus that are currently circulating.

So today I'm sitting down with science editor Ian Sampal

to talk about the stories that caught our attention this week.

From The Guardian, I'm Madeleine Finley, and this is Science Weekly.

Ian, thanks for joining me. We're starting today with a newly evolved variant of the Mpox virus,

which has been identified in England. Now, this is a

sort of hybrid that's emerged from two different strains of M-pox recombining. So what are the

two virus strains this has come from? There are two major types of M-pox, or what we used

call monkeypox, and those are known as clay one and clay two

nowadays now clade one tends to be more virulent and more transmissible and cause more severe

disease than clay two there are two subtypes for each clay so they're called a and b so we have

clade one a and one b clay two 2B. The new strain that's been

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