27 May 2022
In the aftermath of yet another school shooting, many people in the US are desperate for solutions to the country’s gun violence epidemic. Andrew Morral from the research initiative Gun Policy in America discusses the latest evidence on which interventions...
24 December 2021
The president of Blackrock Neurotech says the company’s brain-computer interface, designed for people who are paralysed, could be available in 2022 if regulators approve it
5 November 2021
The human immune system is one of the most complex biological systems we know of, and yet most of us never learn how it works or what it is, says Philipp Dettmer, founder of YouTube channel Kurzgesagt. In his new book, Immune, he hopes to change all...
29 July 2020
Jamie Lacelle suffers from a functional neurological disorder. This is her story.
27 July 2020
Forget disease and frailty. Bill Bryson’s new book, The Body: A guide for occupants, is a hymn to the way the things inside us just work without us telling them to.
27 July 2020
Healthy gut, happy mind: What to eat to boost how you feel.
23 June 2020
Michael Baker, the doctor who devised New Zealand’s aggressive coronavirus response, explains what inspired his successful strategy.
27 February 2019
Eric Alm is racing to find out which gut microbes thrive in diverse human cultures before it is too late. His microbiome library – derived from faecal samples – could help solve future health crises
29 November 2018
He Jiankui has now presented his controversial work at a gene editing summit in Hong Kong. CRISPR expert Helen O’Neill of University College London was there
11 October 2018
Choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh discusses her new dance work, a creation that is epic yet intimate and that straddles both the human scale and the submicrobial
