Virologist Marion Koopmans is one of the independent researchers appointed by the World Health Organisation to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The team visited China in January this year as a first step to answer how, when and where SARS-Cov-2 first infected humans. Professor Koopmans tells Victoria Gill that time is beginning to run out to launch the next phase of studies, to trace the first people in China to be exposed and identify the animals from which the virus jumped the species barrier. Also in the programme: Is the practise of feeding the birds in our gardens …
science & medicine,
Tusk reveals the story of a woolly mammoth's 70,000 kilometre journey
Climate change and extreme weather events.
Pesticides more than double the trouble for bees
How to balance individual rights with the collective action needed to end the pandemic.
Revolutionising research into every aspect of life.
Testing the entire population could stop the virus spreading, but how would we do it?
The role our genetic inheritance plays in determining how the virus affects us.
A treatment to change faulty genetic instructions in the liver seems to be successful.
How will the new UK strategy affect funding for existing research and future innovation?
Cov-Boost trial; SARS-Cov 2 infection in action; sapling guards; why tadpoles are dying
Covid vaccines in children; preventing dengue; algal blooms; supersonic flight.
Lab leak theory of SARS-Cov2; gene for obesity; dark matter map; rock art in Scotland
Vic Gill and guests take a look at human impacts on the earth over thousands of years.
Viennese scientists describe a cure for infamous vaccine-induced thrombosis.
Victoria Gill wades into the microplastic problems in UK riverbeds.
Early burials, diversity in Tudor England, a malaria vaccine, and rogue brain waves.
Dragonfly on Titan, Retreating Glaciers, Surge Testing for Covid 19, Acoustic lighthouses.
Coronavirus variants, climate change resistant coffee, dare to repair and clothes moths.
Evolving research on blood clots associated with vaccines, the emotion of screams, grief.