eLife Podcast

Why 5 friends is ideal, fish in a warmer world, and the added placebo effect that comes with personalised medicine...

Ways to combat online misinformation, what fish reveal about fighting infections, bat's preferred meals, and how...

Genes from millions of years ago that cause and prevent disease, and signs that humans regard data from other humans as...

Plus, how the bee microbiome uses cyanide from dietary toxins to fend off parasites, and links between mitochondrial...

The era of digital palaeontology can bust ancient dinosaur myths, the power of intercropping, and why siblings subject...

Developing babies learning to cry, brain structures that underpin speech proficiency, and the power of the preprint...

The bugs we trade with urban animals, how putting the squeeze on cancer affects metastasis, and tracing population...

Signs that some vapes can inflame the brain and other organs...

What can baboons teach us about how language and handedness seem to go hand in hand?

Gene screening for the elusive trigger of human birth, transmissible tumours, and hunter gatherers with a taste for...

Bones that confirm how Australopithecines walked, and microbes that can fight off skin infections...

Some corals are immune to bleaching, but the trade-off is they grow more slowly...

The best tests for Covid-19, stress and going grey, and the impacts of junk food...

Breaking a pair-bond provokes cancer growth, and signs male baboons age faster as they ascend the social ladder...

Plus, why elephants don't get cancer, and why deforestation causes peaks and troughs in malaria cases

And understanding our ageing body clocks...

Tracking down the location of the mysterious land of Punt, and the genes we're ignoring in COVID cases...

And how exercise stops cancer cells from growing...

And new technology to study mosquito biting behaviour...

Artificial intelligence reveals a better test for prostate cancer, and why the brain is stuffed with stem cells...

How your ear muscles betray you and oily fish combats heart failure

How sweetness takes away the pleasure of consuming and makes you eat more...

How genetic plasticity enables sparrows to live alongside us, and fish to evolve rapidly to life in caves...

Ebola, SARS, rabies... Bats are replete with lethal pathogens. But why?