Interviews with Scientists

Sparrows with West Nile Virus are infected for longer in the light - with implications for disease spread...

It's called sexual dichromatism - and in mosaic canaries, a single gene seems to make the difference...

Plenty of birds fly south for winter. In warblers, this gene seems to partly control where they go...

Hummingbirds can fly backwards and upside-down, and use some unique tricks of metabolism to do it...

Have you been social smiling?

You might be lying, but only in one language

Do you really know how to listen?

How do we come to understand the people around us?

Celebrating World Prosecco Day!

Making the humble red brick a power source

Why do locusts swarm?

We take a closer look at their findings

Antibody tests have given mixed messages to long covid patients. How reliable are they?

Barbara Melville is a long covid patient - but her symptoms are different, especially her fatigue...

A neuropathologist explains the stranger symptoms of long covid - from mood swings to fizzing in the skin...

The patient's own immune system seems to be the major player in long covid...

Cardiologists have recently discovered ongoing heart issues in people who had mild COVID-19...

Oxford-based GP Helen Salisbury has been seeing patients with these ongoing symptoms...

The NHS doesn't have records for mild cases - but data from a symptom tracker app shows the problem's scale...

Paul Garner used to run 40km a week. Now a mild walk puts him in bed for days...

Researchers call it allogrooming - and here's how it shows the herd's hierarchy...

This week's programme is sponsored by Ripple Energy - creating the world's first coop-owned wind farm...

A key Mars mission - that we featured on the programme a few weeks ago - has gotten underway...

A study of hospital patients found as much viral RNA in the noses and throats of kids as in adults...