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FactCheck: new moves towards effective coronavirus treatment
In recent days, there has been promising news about a number of drugs that scientists hope could offer an effective treatment for the worst coronavirus cases.
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FactCheck: how close are we to a vaccine or cure for coronavirus?
What’s the current state of the science in the race to find a vaccine for coronavirus?
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FactCheck: what is herd immunity?
If enough people become immune to an illness – because they’ve already had it or been vaccinated – the disease can’t spread anymore, so even people who aren’t immune probably won’t catch it.
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FactCheck: why hasn’t Britain closed its schools?
Boris Johnson has said that closing schools could do “more harm than good”.
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Actress Rosamund Pike on taking on the role of Marie Curie
One of the most influential women in scientific history – Marie Curie is only scientist to have won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences – for her pioneering research into radioactivity.
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FactCheck: President Trump’s dubious coronavirus claims
Some critics of President Donald Trump have accused of him of making false and confusing statements about the spread of the virus.
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FactCheck Q&A: how do you avoid Coronavirus? Here’s what the experts say
Ministers have been pushing the message that good hand hygiene is a simple way to help prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus.
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Series 4, Episode 10: Adam Rutherford
Dr Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, author and broadcaster. He hosts the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Inside Science’ and has published books related to genetics and the origin of life.
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Greta Thunberg joins climate strikers in Bristol
Today Bristol was reverberating to shouts of ‘Greta, Greta’, as the 17-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg gave a short but punchy speech to about 30,000 people.
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FactCheck Q&A: is the coronavirus a pandemic?
The UK’s four Chief Medical Officers still assess the risk to this country as “moderate” despite recent outbreaks around the world.
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FactCheck Q&A: does climate change cause flooding?
Climate scientists agree that there are likely to be more episodes of extreme rainfall in the future thanks to changes in global temperature.
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FactChecking the coronavirus
A newly-identified virus has infected more than 2,800 people worldwide and killed at least 81 people in China.
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‘Trump Soleimani strike motivated by domestic political considerations’, says retired colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
Joining me now from DC is Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, and from Tehran, Nasser Hadian, a professor of political science at the University of Tehran
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Series 4, Episode 1: Ben Miller
Ben Miller is an actor, comedian and author. You may know him best from the Johnny English movies or as part of the double act, Armstrong and Miller. He has also written both science and children’s books. His most recent book is called the ‘The Boy who made the World Disappear’, which he wrote for…
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‘Nature is in trouble’: experts discuss UK’s wildlife extinction crisis
We’re joined by Professor Rosie Hails, Director of Nature and Science at the National Trust – which is one of the organisations behind tomorrow’s report. We’re also joined by Phil Jarvis – who is a farmer and chair of the National Farmers Union’s Environment Forum – and by author and naturalist Mark Cocker.