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How do you plan for the scientific discoveries of the future? That鈥檚 the question Chancellor Rachel Reeves had to try to answer with this week鈥檚 Spending Review. She allocated more than 22 billion pounds a year by 2029/30 for research and development which was described as a boost for science. Robin Bisson, UK News Editor for news website Research Professional News, and Dr Alicia Greated, Executive Director at the charity Campaign for Science and Engineering in the UK, explain where the money will go.

As the UN鈥檚 Ocean Conference continues in Nice, France, we get the latest developments from Science and Climate Correspondent Esme Stallard, before diving into a kelp forest in our own UK waters with reporter Graihagh Jackson. It鈥檚 hoped that encouraging the seaweed could help sequester carbon dioxide.

We hear about the dinosaur discovery that鈥檚 rewriting the evolutionary story of the Tyrannosaurus Rex with University of Calgary palaeontologists Professor Darla Zelenitsky and Jared Voris.

And journalist Caroline Steel is in the studio with her round up of science stories straight from the researcher鈥檚 labs.