What do we know about the origins of the coronavirus? How promising are these new vaccines? And what’s taken the wind out of the sails of one of the most promising treatments for Alzheimer’s disease? Health reporter Olivia Willis speaks with science editor Jonathan Webb about the big health stories of 2020.

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Folge vom 30.12.2020Science Extra: Inside a frantic year in health news
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Folge vom 26.12.2020Two scientists, a man and a woman, who changed the course of historyPortraits of two scientists who changed our view of the world - Rosalind Franklin whose photograph illustrated the double helix structure of DNA, and James Clerk Maxwell, who was up there with Newton and Einstein. He pioneered our understanding of the kinetic nature of gases, studied the rings of Saturn and described the importance of electromagnetism.
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Folge vom 19.12.2020A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild
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Folge vom 12.12.2020Would you take a ray gun to ringworm?Radiation used to treat benign conditions up to the 1960s has led to illness and death Big push into nano medicine at The University of Sydney Children’s book celebrates pioneer of surgical osteointegration Australian trees growing all over the world Similarities between COVID-19 and climate change Space weather a risk for life The fine line for the scientific illustrator