- Julia Santomauro
Sleep paralysis researcher Julia Santomauro explores the phenomenon of sleep paralysis including what is sleep paralysis, what causes sleep paralysis, how
common is it, and are there any treatments for sleep paralysis ?
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- Jemima Stockton
What are probiotics or 'friendly' bacteria, how do prebiotics and probiotics like Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium and Streptococcus, help prevent illnesses
including meningitis, pneumonia, cancers, and inflammatory bowel diseases including Crohn's Disease ?
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- Emma Jarvis
For the last 75 years the average IQ test score has been increasing in every industrialised country in the world. Are we really more intelligent than our grandparents?
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- Danielle Turner
Researchers have been investigating how the unexpected affects how well and what you remember. If you want to be remembered - surprise someone! Super learning occurs when we encounter something highly unexpected.
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- Stephanie Modi
The lymphatic system is your body's drainage system. It collects the excess fluid that surrounds cells and returns it to the bloodstream, picks up fats from the intestines and primes the immune system about pathogens...
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- Adel Fattah
SEX: A short word. Often used. Often used to sell products in fact. Yet it is one of our base instincts, one of our prime motivations in life. So why do we find the opposite sex so attractive? And why do we need sex anyway?
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- Barrie Lancaster
Barrie takes a look at the past and present use of leeches in medicine and surgery, including helping doctors in cosmetic surgery, reattachment and reperfusion of severed body parts and how their venom (hirudin) can be used to dissolve blood clots.
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- Thomas Häusler
Bacteriophages were big business before penicillin and other antimicrobials appeared on the scene. But now, with increasing bacterial resistance and the rise of the "superbug", phages are once more centre-stage in the war on microbes...
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- Felicia Huppert
How much do we know about what makes people thrive and societies flourish? We know remarkably little about the positive aspects of living. Felicia Huppert takes us on a tour of her new book.
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- David Gamon
If you want a sure-fire conversation starter to pull out of your pocket during an awkward social moment, try this: Why do people often look sideways when they're answering a question? And why do they sometimes look right, and other times look left?
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