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Dec 15, 2015

Can studying Mosquito population genomes help to stop the spread of Malaria? Malaria is a huge problem, affecting millions of people worldwide. Mosquitoes spread the disease by passing on a parasite as it feeds on blood. Dr Alistair Miles talks us through one part of the puzzle of tackling the disease through...


Dec 1, 2015

How do you start to pick apart speech at the genetic level? Dr Dianne Newbury explains what Specific Language Impairment is and how her research is unravelling a pretty complicated picture. Specific Language Impairment describes those who have difficulty learning, using and understanding language even though there...


Nov 16, 2015

How do you understand how large populations of penguins on Antarctica change? And how can you use this information to protect penguins? Dr Tom Hart runs the 'Penguin Watch' project that gives people from all over the world the chance to help researchers keep tabs on what penguins on Antarctica are up to. This...


Oct 22, 2015

From people on the the ground to satellites in the air - how do we monitor and understand volcanos in an attempt to understand when they might erupt? Professor David Pyle discusses how combinations of different types of information is pieced together to help volcanologists better understand how different volcanoes...


Jun 12, 2015

Professor Kim Plunkett explains how neuroscientists use artificial intelligence as a tool to model processes in the brain – in particular to understand how infants acquire language.