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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 10 days 23 hours 54 minutes
Human Genome Project - Nature’s editor-in-chief reflects 20 years on
Looking back at the publication of the human genome, and how macrophages mend muscle.
Coronapod: Variants – what you need to know
Researchers are scrambling to understand the biology of new coronavirus variants and the impact they might have on vaccine efficacy. Around the world, concern is growing about the impact that new, faster-spreading variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus wi...
Mysterious einsteinium spills its secrets
Exploring the properties of a vanishingly-rare man-made element, and the AI that generates new mathematical conjectures.
Coronapod: Fixing the world’s pandemic alarm
A year ago the WHO’s coronavirus emergency alarm was largely ignored. Why?
Audio long-read: Push, pull and squeeze – the hidden forces that shape life
Researchers are probing the subtle physical forces that sculpt cells and bodies.
How a spinal device could relieve a neglected effect of cord injury
A neuroprosthetic device restores blood-pressure control after spinal-cord injury, and identifying the neurons that help us understand others’ beliefs.
Hiring discrimination laid bare by mountain of data
Analysis of millions of job seekers shows that recruiters will discriminate based on ethnicity and gender, and the neural circuitry behind a brief period of forgetting.
Coronapod: The rise of RNA vaccines
Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker and Elie Dolgin discuss RNA vaccines
The mysterious extinction of the dire wolf
DNA clues point to how dire wolves went extinct, and a round-up of the main impacts of Brexit on science. In this episode: 00:45 Dire wolf DNA Dire wolves were huge predators that commonly roamed across North America before disappearing around 13,000...
Audio long-read: Controlling COVID with science - Iceland's story
Lessons from Iceland, which utilised huge scientific resources to contain COVID-19.