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Sexual Nature 3/3
Life’s many paths to being female or male: in humans, komodo dragons and transexual fish
Sexual Nature 2/3
How did sex begin and why do some many species keep doing it?
Sexual Nature 1/3
Frolicking fossils and suggestive theories - the evolutionary history of sex
Quantum Biology
What is quantum biology and why is it important?
The ENCODE Project
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
John Gurdon
2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea
The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist
Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.
Why do women outlive men
Why do women live longer than men? Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing
Piltdown Man
Piltdown Man – could such a shocking case of scientific fraud happen again?