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Forever chemicals, the Amritsar Massacre, and why childhood lasts so long

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Forever chemicals, the Amritsar Massacre, and why childhood lasts so long

On Sunday Science, Lyndal Byford from the Australian Science Media Centre takes Suzanne Hill through the history of per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals - you might know them better as PFAS. They've been labelled 'forever chemicals' because the don't break down and a major new study has found there's more of it in our water than we'd like to think.

On This Week in History,  we return to one of the most shocking incidents in British colonial history in India to remember the Amritsa Massacre with Associate Professor Meera Ashar,  Director of the ANU's South Asia Research Institute. 

Science journalist Michael Marshall then unravels the origins behind our extraordinarily long childhood, and Overnights presenter Michael Pavlich brings some new music.

I Got Mine - Sally Row

Self Talk - Sand Pebbles

Rock It - Vance Joy

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