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Aristotle’s Biology

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the first studies of animal anatomy, ancient works on nature and the influence Aristotle has made on the modern biology

Moons of Saturn

Talents in Autism

Human Impact on Freshwater Ecosystem

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Geographer Mathias Disney on carbonate deposits in the ocean, how wildfires release the carbon in the atmosphere and why it’s so hard to model the interactions between the biota and the carbon cycle

Genes and Sunlight

Geneticist Steve Jones on skin cancer, the effect of vitamin D and why the sunlight is good for health and dangerous at the same time

Fundamental Interactions

Physicist Jonathan Butterworth on the term ‘fundamental’, the forces of the Standard model and why gravity is so hard to investigate

Treatment of Aging

Biogerontologist David Gems on the innate plasticity in aging, senolytic drugs and whether we should expect dramatic breakthrough in the aging field

Genome Annotation

Bioinformatician Tim Hubbard on the process of identifying genes, protein genes and RNA genes, and how many genes are there in the human genome

Magnetic Field of Saturn

Physicist Michele Dougherty on the planetary dynamo, Cassini’s flybys of Saturn and why the nature of the magnetic field of Saturn remains unknown

Earth’s Magnetospere

Physicist David Southwood on how the magnetic field of Earth causes natural losses of spacecraft, the aurorae and why it’s important to study plasma physics

Bipolar Disorder

Psychiatrist Guy Goodwin on the causes of bipolar disorder, why manic episodes are so dangerous and what medicines can be used to stabilise the mood

Materiality in the History of Christianity

Peter Jones on the medieval obsession with relics, Christian heresies and why we shouldn’t reduce objects just down to their function or purpose

Oncologist Justin Stebbing on different types of treatment for cancer, gene sequencing and what does it mean to cure cancer

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