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Uncharted Brain 3: the role viruses may play in Alzheimer’s
There are many competing theories about what causes Alzheimer's disease. For more than 30 years, Ruth Itzhaki has been accumulating evidence that vir…
3 years, 7 months ago
Uncharted Brain 2 : the family trauma of dementia from sports injuries
Dementia doesn’t just affect older people. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a form of dementia that athletes from a whole range of sports ca…
3 years, 7 months ago
Uncharted Brain 1: a lifelong study unlocks clues to Alzheimer’s
Scientists have been doing an array of regular health checks on the same group of people since they were born in 1946 – the world's longest running c…
3 years, 7 months ago
Uncharted Brain: decoding dementia – trailer
Uncharted Brain: decoding dementia is a new series from The Conversation exploring new research unlocking clues to the ongoing mystery of how dementi…
3 years, 7 months ago
Climate Fight part 5: the art and chaos of negotiating the Glasgow Climate Pact
A good negotiation is supposed to leave everyone feeling a little unsatisfied. So what happened at the world's biggest one – over the future of our p…
4 years, 6 months ago
Climate Fight part 4: the youth movement grows up
Locked out of conferences and company boardrooms, young people have tried to influence the international response to the climate crisis with strikes …
4 years, 7 months ago
Climate fight part 3: the left behind
In the shift away from fossil fuels, how do countries make sure not to widen inequalities in the process? In part three of our series Climate fight: …
4 years, 7 months ago
Climate Fight part 2: the path to net zero
In part two of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, we’re talking to experts about the grand goal of the negotiations: reaching net zero e…
4 years, 8 months ago
Climate Fight part 1: where's the money?
In the first episode of our new series Climate fight: the world's biggest negotiation, we're talking about climate finance – money pledged by the wor…
4 years, 8 months ago
Climate fight: the world's biggest negotiation – trailer
How will we actually tackle the climate crisis? And who gets to decide? As Glasgow gets ready to hold the COP26 climate summit in November, The Anthi…
4 years, 8 months ago