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Patient zero: something in the water

It was October 2010 when reports first emerged of a mysterious disease spreading through Haiti....

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The Life Scientific: Jane Hurst

Mice, like humans, prefer to be treated with a little dignity, and that extends to how they are...

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The Life Scientific: Cath Noakes

Professor Cath Noakes studies how air moves and the infection risk associated with different...

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The Evidence: Keeping out Covid-19

From flight bans, entry bans, compulsory quarantine and virus testing, most countries have...

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The Life Scientific: Giles Yeo

Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work.

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The power of night

Lucy Cooke meets some of the animal kingdom’s nocturnal inhabitants to understand why it pays to...

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The power of one

We humans are a supremely social species, but the coronavirus pandemic has forced many of us into...

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The Power of Celibacy

You might think that sex is essential for life, but you'd be wrong! Lucy Cooke travels to the...

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The Evidence: The Shapeshifting Virus

News that at least three new variants of SARS-CoV-2 have emerged in three separate continents...

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Science Trumped

When US health expert sighed last week that science could now speak again, his sense of relief...

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Plant scientist Dale Sanders

Professor Dale Sanders has spent much of his life studying plants, seeking to understand why some...

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Astrophysicist Andy Fabian

Professor Andrew Fabian from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy has spent his career trying to...

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Marine conservationist Heather Koldewey

Professor Heather Koldewey wants to protect our oceans from over-fishing and plastic pollution....

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Climate meltdown

The year 2020 started with wildfires raging across parts of Australia, exceptional floods in East...

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Hopes and Fears for Covid-19 Vaccines

Less than a year in, and the first vaccines are already being rolled out, with many more in the...

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Alice Roberts

It’s amazing what we can learn from a pile of old bones. Having worked as a paediatric surgeon...

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Steve Haake

Steve Haake has spent much of his career using technology to help elite sports people get better,...

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The Space Burrito

Is there a point in space where the Sun could heat a burrito perfectly? asks Will. The doctors...

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The Zedonk Problem

Today I learnt that tigons and ligers are what you get when lions and tigers interbreed?!’...

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The Evidence: Pandemic rules: follower or flouter?

Millions of us, across the world, are subject to curfews, stay-at-home orders and lockdowns but...

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