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12:50 PM.A new study suggests e-cigarettes may be a gateway to smoking real cigarettes. Also scientists are using genetic sequencing technology to understand how quinoa can grow in super harsh conditions. Read more Audio

12:35 PM.Is it ever OK to eat another human being? Zoologist Bill Schutt explores the question. Read more Audio

12:25 PM.This week Facebook gets into the TV business, and India launches 104 satellites in a single mission. It's a new world record and announces the country as a serious player in the commercial space race.

12:15 PM.Is the "dumbphone" poised for a bit of a comeback? Also China's quest to build the perfect ballpoint pen and how the humble biro is being used by the NZ police to fight crime. Read more Audio

12:01 PM.China's ballpoint quest, the rise of the dumb phone, Facebook TV, India breaks space records, a history of cannibalism, and sequencing quinoa. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Helen Pilcher looks at the controversial science of de-extinction. Read more Audio

12:35 PM.Jeff Karp is a bioengineer looking to nature for inspiration in developing new medical treatments. Read more Audio

12:25 PM.Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as a reliable source, Snapchat gets ready to go public, plus the next generation of mobile telephony – 5G is just around the corner. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.BBC science journalist Dr Michael Mosley has been testing out which foods promote the good bugs, and whether those probiotic drinks actually work. Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Eat your way to better gut health, Snapchat IPO and the approach of 5G, solving medical challenges using nature and bringing extinct species back from the dead. Read more Audio

12:50 PM.Cotton has one of the most tangled and opaque consumer supply chains in the world, says James Hayward of Applied DNA Sciences. He's using genetic barcodes to introduce more traceability to the system.

12:40 PM.Peter Griffin has the latest on Facebook's huge growth in users and ad revenue, and why did thousands of UBER customers delete the app this week? Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The measurement of a kilogram is currently based on a hunk of metal kept under lock and key in France - but that's about to change. We find out why. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Peloton is a spin class with a difference – 80,000 bikes, 250,000 riders, and it all happens in your home. Steven Kurutz from the New York Times has been to Peloton HQ in Manhattan. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Spin doctors, when is a kg not a kilo?, #DeleteUber and jean testing: ethical cotton. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Professor Floyd Romesberg of the Scripps Research Institute in California is part of a research team that's added 2 extra, synthetic genetic 'letters' to ecoli bacteria, and these single-celled… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.Tech correspondent Peter Griffin with news that Google is testing out Android Instant Apps amid a downturn in the global app-based economy. Also how a proliferation of massive bot networks on Twitter… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.A popular puzzle computer game which emerged from the Eastern Bloc has helped reveal to scientists how repeating an activity can rewire our brains. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Professor Nicholas Dale of the University of Warwick is developing a simple blood test to detect if you've had a stroke. He hopes this will ensure that stroke sufferers can be diagnosed and treated as… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Stroke blood test, the Tetris story, tech news (Instant Apps and fake Twitter accounts) and building synthetic life by hacking the genetic alphabet. Read more Audio

12:55 PM.Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists with groundbreaking research that must already be one of the front runners for this year's Ig Nobel science awards. For the first time there is empirical… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.A controversial medical trial is taking place in Baltimore, freezing gunshot victims in an attempt to extend "the golden hour', and stop trauma patients from bleeding out. Nicola Twilley has visited… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.This Way Up reviews what's been hot (quite literally in one notable case) tech in 2016. VR has well and truly arrived and chatbots are on the horizon. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Opticians Ravi Dass and Stephanie Hill of Mr Foureyes sell prescription glasses, and for every pair of glasses they sell, a free pair is given to a child. Read more Audio, Gallery