Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 12 days 10 hours 54 minutes
Nicola Davis hears the evidence as to whether ibuprofen could worsen a Sars-CoV-2 infection
Sarah Boseley speaks to Prof Deenan Pillay about how the virus contaminates surfaces outside the human body
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?
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?
Physicist Brian Greene takes us on a journey through time and the cosmos on a quest to find meaning and purpose in human experience
Nicola Davis hears how insights into influenza might reveal how our bodies react once Covid-19 takes hold
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.
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?
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?
Should we rewrite our DNA? In the first episode of our new series, Common Threads, we explore what makes us human