Covid-19

The UK stance is currently at odds with the response across Europe. Is this the right approach to controlling the...

Would this protect communities where the coronavirus hasn't yet established?

Are the victims younger? Or have they maybe developed antibodies?

Listener Lorna had this query about her own cancer treatment...

Before we get into the questions, it's time to introduce the panel...

Time to sate that curious mind! Our panel answers questions on the coronavirus, solar storms, and much more...

As cases climb beyond 80,000, how is the world reacting?

Researchers are using AI to discover new drugs...

Chris Smith takes the world's temperature - from a proposal for a vaccine

This week we delve into the disease that accounts for a quarter of all cancer in men: prostate cancer...

Data on the emerging situation from China, and where this new virus originated...

The World Health Organisation declare the Chinese coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency. Chris Smith returns...

Do facemasks protect against viruses? And why can I hear my sonic pest repeller?

Chris Smith's appearance on Radio New Zealand National, January 2020

Where did the disease come, and how far might it spread?

What's the culprit for this new virus?

Scientists in Taiwan may have found a gene that makes people more susceptible to the deadly SARS virus...

Scientists in Hong Kong are planning to screen 10,000 citizens to find out how many may have been infected with SARS

What's special about stem cells?