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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

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Fundamental Interactions

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Materiality in the History of Christianity

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

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Cancer

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

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Undecidable Problems

Mathematician Gareth Jones on Gödel's incompleteness theorem, the halting problem and why the subsets of the natural numbers are uncountably infinite