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Episodes
457 episodes
Size matters: The link between social groups and human evolution with Robin Dunbar
Humans are social creatures; we live in family groups, socialise with friends, and work with colleagues both in person and online. Yet, how many friends do you really have? Evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar says it wo...
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New grounds for hope: Humanity can govern its complex planetary tragedies!
Humanity is overwhelmed by planetary tragedies: climate crisis, widespread hunger, desertification, migrations, destruction of biodiversity, corruption and many more. They are out of control because they are too complex for common-sense approac...
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Empower Peers 4 Careers: Positive Peer Culture and Adolescent Career Choices
In Switzerland, young adults face major challenges when transitioning from school to the workplace—especially those with special educational needs. How can peer support help them navigate career choices and build resilience?Professors Cl...
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Fertility, social norms, and the challenges of childbearing in East Asia
In East Asia, high marriage rates coexist with some of the world’s lowest fertility rates. So, why are so few children born in these societies? And how is this related to the strongly embedded cultural and Confucianist influences?
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‘Nuggets’ of Knowledge (NoK): How past experiential health emergency knowledge can inform future responses
The knowledge gained during the COVID-19 pandemic and other health emergencies could prove invaluable for devising responses to and planning for future health crises. Dr Landry Ndriko Mayigane and Dr Stella Chungong from the Health Secu...
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Myeloperoxidase leads the way toward safe and efficient antiseptics
Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is a vital enzyme in the immune system, with the potential to revolutionise antiseptics and cancer therapy.Professor Robert C. Allen has developed MPO-based antiseptics effective in blood which are systemically safe...
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Re-creating spaces in times of social isolation: Unveiling Hybrid Agents and Contexts for socio-educational transformation
Hybrid psychological agents and transformative hybrid contexts offer new ways to bridge cultural divides, foster inclusion, and drive social change.Dr. Beatriz Macías-Gómez-Estern from Universidad Pablo de Olavide investigates hybrid lea...
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Can PBMCs be used as a tool for the identification of immune biomarkers in lung cancer?
Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with treatment responses varying widely among patients.Dr. Carminia Maria Della Corte from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is at the forefront of resear...
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PrivacyPrimer: Protecting privacy while supporting memory recall for older adults
Memory is a problem for many people as they age. To combat this, wearable devices may help older adults recall precious memories through what is called 'life-logging', despite these technologies raising significant privacy concerns.Resea...
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Resilience, scepticism, and mRNA with Katalin Karikó
While we may associate Messenger RNA (mRNA for short) with the COVID-19 pandemic vaccination programme, its study in fact began over 60 years ago.Born in 1955 in rural Hungary, Katalin Karikó battled critics and scepticism for her resea...
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Personalised genetic insights: A revolution in papillary thyroid cancer
While the management of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is guided by recurrence risk assessment, current methods cannot accurately predict disease recurrence.Professor Oliver Bathe and his collaborators at the University of Calgary, Cana...
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Early Action Review: Preventing local outbreaks from becoming pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call for governments and their global stakeholders to reform the management processes of infectious disease outbreaks. Dr Stella Chungong and Dr Landry Ndriko Mayigane of the Health Security Preparedn...
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Fuzzy Logic: Opinion uncertainty and helping cities make better decisions
Almost every city in the modern world faces the difficult challenge of understanding its citizens’ opinions and turning them into meaningful decisions. Miloš Švaňa, a PhD student at Technical University of Ostrava, has decided to focus ...
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Breaking with heritage to revive human values
The actions of humans are typically influenced by societal norms and mainstream trends that are passed down from generation to generation, shaping our life choices and behavioural patterns. Jean-Paul Close, founder of the STIR Found...
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Do joint manipulation sounds make a difference in physical therapy outcomes?
Joint manipulation, applying a manipulation force to the spine to improve joint mobility and reduce pain, often comes with an audible pop. Patients and some practitioners often regard this audible sound as a sign of a successful treatment, but ...
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How can we ensure private communication?
We increasingly rely on electronic communications across society. You may have heard privacy protection methods for those messages, such as end-to-end encryption. However, can that protection be guaranteed against governments, industries or bad...
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Helium nanodroplets for material science research
Helium nanodroplets are fascinating objects that can be used as microscopic laboratories to form new types of nanomaterials. Researchers in COSY COST Action’s Working Group 4 , which recently celebrated its second anniversary...
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Confined Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles and Clusters
A nanoparticle is a tiny particle typically in the size range of one to one hundred nanometres. Nano-scale systems can exhibit unique quantum mechanical properties due to their size. The European Association for Cooperation in Sci...
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Advances in catastrophic slope failure forecasts
On most days, a weather forecast is a convenient answer to simple questions, like : do I need an umbrella? How windy will it be? For high stakes questions around landslide hazards, how do we deal with slope failure forecast? And ar...
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Regenerative medicine: Revolutionising osteoarthritis treatment
Osteoarthritis is the most common disease in the world, characterised by the progressive degeneration of cartilage in the joints.Dr Torbjörn Ogéus from the Stockholms led- & smärtspecialist clinic in Sweden, who is pioneering regene...
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Alternative fuels reduce harmful emissions during combustion
Transportation is a key part of our life, either travelling ourselves or in transporting goods. Fossil fuels are still the most widely applied fuel for transportation purposes, given that the vast majority of engines are traditional combustion ...
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Equine-assisted services help families impacted by domestic abuse
For millennia, humans and horses have enjoyed a special relationship. Recent research shows that working with horses can improve human mental health and wellbeing. Professor Ann Hemingway is part of a multidisciplinary team that has dem...
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RNA sequencing in Alzheimers investigations
We humans share over 99% of our DNA with each other. This means personalised therapies for diseases such as cancer or neurodegenerative conditions have to be tailored to the most minute differences between us - or even between our own cells.&nb...
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Just war and class conflict in Shakespeare’s ‘Henry V’
‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers’ – King Henry’s speech to rouse his troops before the Battle of Agincourt is one of the most famous in Shakespeare. But what does ‘Henry V’ tell us about theories of war in Elizabethan England?...
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