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#45: Vaccine roll out in UK and China; Chris Packham on connectedness; AlphaFold breakthrough
Season 1 Episode 45
With the UK becoming the first country in the world to approve the roll out of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the team discusses issues around safety, …
5 years, 3 months ago
#44: When we’ll get the vaccine; fast-expanding universe; lunar missions
Season 1 Episode 44
Vaccine scientist Katrina Pollock answers some of the biggest questions about covid-19 vaccines: when are we going to get one, and when will life go …
5 years, 3 months ago
#43: How the covid RNA vaccine works; systemic racism; origin of humans
Season 1 Episode 43
Even as covid-19 cases keep going up, we’ve had some good news about possible vaccines for coronavirus. Two of the promising vaccines are mRNA vaccin…
5 years, 3 months ago
#42: Vaccine for covid-19; origin of animals; overpopulation
Season 1 Episode 42
There are exciting results in trials of two coronavirus vaccines. But just how excited should we be? We discuss the latest findings, the strength of …
5 years, 3 months ago
#41: The function of dreams
Season 1 Episode 41
On this week’s election-distraction special, we hear about a new hypothesis which could explain an age-old mystery. Dreams could be a way of freeing …
5 years, 4 months ago
#40: Halloween special: real-life vampires, the science of ghosts, deep-sea zombies, monster black holes
Season 1 Episode 40
What price would you pay for eternal youth? Some real-life vampires in California took part in a trial where they infused themselves with the blood p…
5 years, 4 months ago
#39: Social lives of viruses; CRISPR to fight antibiotic resistance; dealing with risk; George RR Martin and the moon
Season 1 Episode 39
When we think about the way a virus operates, we tend to think of it as a lone assassin. But it turns out viruses have surprisingly rich social lives…
5 years, 4 months ago
#38: Tackling the climate crisis; essential, like, filler words of, um, language; mystery of the human penis; your covid questions answered
Season 1 Episode 38
2020 was meant to be a pivotal year in the fight against climate change, but a rather pressing issue has knocked us off course. But there are still w…
5 years, 4 months ago
#37: Black holes and CRISPR gene editing spring Nobel surprises; climate change and indigenous people in the Arctic; symptom clusters identified for covid-19
Season 1 Episode 37
This year’s Nobel prize season has been the most thrilling in ages. Not only are we celebrating fascinating scientific breakthroughs, but this is als…
5 years, 4 months ago
#36: Hunt for life on Venus and Mars; how the paleo diet affects your age; strategy for the second wave of coronavirus; species extinction crisis
Season 1 Episode 36
Hopes of discovering life on Venus have been dampened somewhat as the sheer scale of the task becomes clear. But don’t get in a slump just yet, becau…
5 years, 5 months ago