This week’s line-up is a perfect reminder that science is not a neat little march of progress. It’s more like a grab bag where you pull out “chicken-powered nuclear landmines”, “mini brains that can sense time”, “one woman quietly preventing a medical catastrophe” and a misinformation spiral about circumcision and autism, all in the same episode.

None of these stories should sit comfortably together. But they do, because humans are capable of astonishing brilliance, and truly unhinged ideas, often at the exact same time.