Plus: the saga of Australia's "drug grannies"
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Hidden behind St Vincent's hospital in Sydney, there's an unassuming grey building where some extraordinary research is happening.
It's here that the detailed medical data of 128 of Australia's COVID veterans is being exhaustively analysed.
The team has found something startling: some level of cognitive decline in almost all participants.
Background Briefing reporter Geoff Thompson embedded in Australia's first long COVID clinic, giving us a fascinating insight into the cutting-edge research and how it might affect those living with the disease.
Read the article or listen to the full audio episode on the ABC listen app.
Plus, journey with us into space, where experts warn a catastrophe is unfolding.
While we tend to think of "the final frontier" as vast and empty, around Earth, it's quite the opposite.
Thanks to mountains of debris, it's becoming crowded, messy and increasingly dangerous. It's also largely lawless.
Read the story to hear from a social scientist and lawyer, who puts forward the case for improved "space laws".
If humanity doesn't act, he says, "space is in jeopardy of becoming an unusable graveyard".
And finally, discover the incredible true story of "drug grannies" Vera Todd Hays and Florice Bessire, whose trip of a lifetime quickly became nightmarish.
When the American retirees headed off on a campervan holiday in 1977, they could never have predicted they'd end up in an Australian prison.
With mysterious threats, a media frenzy and a twisted betrayal, their story is one for the history books.
Until next time, Anna Levy, deputy digital editor
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| What goes on in Australia's first long COVID clinic? |
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| Thousands of Australians are finding they still feel ill several months after contracting coronavirus. They're experiencing a new and little understood condition called long COVID. |
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| Space junk could have 'catastrophic consequences' |
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| This expert says we need better 'space laws', otherwise space could become very dangerous. |
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The 'drug grannies' whose dream holiday became a prison nightmare |
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| In 1977, two American retirees set out on a campervan trip. When the women tried to go home, they were threatened with violence, and a three-month holiday turned into a 14-year prison sentence. |
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