Answers to Medicine Questions

Millions of work and school days have been lost as people are pinged by the UK Covid-19 app...

How individual instincts are taken into account when animals are reintroduced to the wild...

Athletes will have to perform to empty stadia and award their own medals...

Is opening up in the face of significant case numbers genius, or morally reprehensible?

Could playing the bagpipes help your lungs recover after you've had COVID?

Could the microbiome of the lungs be the difference between asymptomatic and symptomatic COVID-19?

What are ultra-processed foods, and what are they doing to us?

If they ate the same things, would their gut bugs be the same?

The trillions of organisms in the human body - how do they get there?

Lemon and lime juice - if it gets on your skin - can cause a nasty rash in the sun. Why?

Brain and bodyweight expert Giles Yeo says 'calories don't count'. Why?

How does full sugar compare to artificial sweeteners?

How can you make a normal TV look 3D?

What were the health impacts of the vastly different diets and lifestyles of aristocrats and peasants?

How would being in space affect the development of a foetus?

Paola asks: would 'woven' blood vessels be able to perform diffusion properly?

Seeking science to sort a shivery snag

Why do females produce eggs inside the body, but males have to produce sperm outside the body?

Listener Luke sent us a concern he's been hearing about the vaccine, so Chris Smith weighed in...

Do bugs have the same "fight or flight" biology as us humans?

Listener David asks how to measure time during space travel - and how the body clock gets affected...

We can't hold in an answer any longer...

Which does the brain deal with quickest?