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Covid-19: can ibuprofen make an infection worse? – Science Weekly Podcast


Nicola Davis hears the evidence as to whether ibuprofen could worsen a Sars-CoV-2 infection


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 March 26, 2020  11m
 
 

Covid-19: how long can it survive outside the body? – Science Weekly Podcast


Sarah Boseley speaks to Prof Deenan Pillay about how the virus contaminates surfaces outside the human body


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 March 24, 2020  9m
 
 

Covid-19: how effective is social distancing? – Science Weekly Podcast


Ian Sample speaks to Prof Deirdre Hollingsworth about social distancing. What is it? How might it help to flatten the curve? And what are some of the big unknowns when it comes to predicting how effective it might be?


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 March 19, 2020  13m
 
 

Covid-19: why are there different fatality rates? – Science Weekly Podcast


Hannah Devlin speaks toProf Paul Hunter about fatality rates; why different figures are being quoted across the media; how the rates are calculated; and is the fatality rate the only useful number to look at?


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 March 17, 2020  11m
 
 

A quest for meaning: Brian Greene on time and the cosmos - Science Weekly podcast


Physicist Brian Greene takes us on a journey through time and the cosmos on a quest to find meaning and purpose in human experience


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 March 13, 2020  28m
 
 

Covid-19: what happens once someone is infected? Science Weekly Extra


Nicola Davis hears how insights into influenza might reveal how our bodies react once Covid-19 takes hold


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 March 12, 2020  9m
 
 

The Gene Gap: can we trust science to police itself? – Science Weekly podcast


In the third and final episode of our new series on gene editing, Common Threads, we talk about trust in power and how past controversies have led many to question gene editing, science and medicine.


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 March 6, 2020  40m
 
 

Covid-19: where in the body does it infect us? – Science Weekly Extra


Science Weekly will be exploring questions about what we do and don’t know about the new coronavirus outbreak with weekly bonus episodes. First: where in the body does it infect us, and what difference does this make?


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 March 5, 2020  10m
 
 

The Gene Gap: who decides what happens next? – Science Weekly podcast


In the second episode of our new series on gene editing, Common Threads, we talk about power. Who can speak for our species and make decisions? Who holds the power to inform us, and are we well informed?


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 February 28, 2020  34m
 
 

The Gene Gap: what makes us human? - Science Weekly podcast


Should we rewrite our DNA? In the first episode of our new series, Common Threads, we explore what makes us human


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 February 21, 2020  38m