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This week's top stories of the week include:

0:15 Women under-represented in health trials – Nancy Brown is head of the American Heart Association. She says that although heart disease is the leading cause of death for women, women are often under-represented in clinical trials.

3:47 A greener process for making batteries – Batteries are powering the energy transition, but right now, they’re expensive. Cathodes are by far the most expensive part of the battery to make and have the largest environmental footprint, too. Sylvatex has invented a new, greener process for making cathodes.

6:43 - App helps preserve Indigenous culture – Mikaela Jade is a Cabrogal woman from the Dharug-speaking nation. She created Indigital, the world’s first Indigenous augmented reality (AR) storytelling app. It worked with First Nations people to showcase their knowledge, language, and lore through AR.

10:03 - $200B deal to reverse nature decline – The deal was agreed at a second session of COP16, the UN biodiversity conference. The money will help to close the global biodiversity funding gap, which stands at around $700 billion per year.

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