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Dr Rachel Brown: Why are some COVID-19 patients suffering from neurological complications?
A recent study carried out at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH, on confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients has found neuro…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Urban Birder: What wildlife can city-dwellers see?
Many of us have found solace in nature over the last few months, relishing our time outdoors, especially when it was limited to one form of exercise …
5 years, 10 months ago
Dr Michael Mosley: Why is sleep so important?
If, like us, you love to read a good science book, (and thanks to this podcast we’ve read a fair few over the years), you’ll probably recognise the f…
5 years, 10 months ago
Ritu Raman: Can you build with biology?
If I asked you to build a robot, the first materials you would probably reach for would be some metal bits and plastic bobs.
However, mechanical engin…
5 years, 10 months ago
Project Discovery: Could computer games help find a cure for COVID-19?
In a previous episode of the Science Focus Podcast, we discovered how a team of scientists harnessed the combined power of hundreds of thousands of p…
5 years, 11 months ago
Dr Jacob Bleacher: Why do we need to go back to the Moon?
In 1969, Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people ever to walk on the Moon, a feat over the next three and a half yea…
5 years, 11 months ago
Subhadra Das: What part has science played in racism?
Not so long ago, English scientists believed that they could study differences between people and that certain ethnicities were ‘better’ or ‘worse’ t…
5 years, 11 months ago
Brendan Walker: Where is the best place to sit on a rollercoaster?
Brendan Walker originally trained and worked as an aeronautical engineer, but now has a far more thrilling job title, quite literally - he’s a thrill…
5 years, 11 months ago
Leonard Mlodinow: How did Stephen Hawking make science accessible?
Two years to the day the great physicist Professor Stephen Hawking was interred at Westminster Abbey, and at the time of his death, we spoke to one o…
6 years ago
Pragya Agarwal: When does bias become prejudice?
No matter how open-minded we consider ourselves to be, all of us hold biases towards other people.
Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scienti…
6 years ago