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- 2.1 How do pills know where to go?
- 2.10 Drug and vaccine development
- 2.11 Very small and very busy: life inside the cell
- 2.12 Immunity, vaccines and variants
- 2.13 It’s in the genes: why we look like our parents – a bit.
- 2.14 Species , breeds and cultivars
- 2.15 Feeling ill
- 2.17 Memory
- 2.18 The heart and blood system
- 2.19 Ailments of the heart and blood system
- 2.2 Depression: the vital role of serotonin
- 2.20 Happiness
- 2.21 How we grow – from embryo to adult
- 2.22 Conflict and Cooperation
- 2.23 Coping with Winter
- 2.24 Imagining impossible things
- 2.25 Lymph, blood and hormones: body systems
- 2.26 A trip down the alimentary canal
- 2.27 Muscles: how they work
- 2.28 Must teenagers rebel
- 2.29 How drugs work: ozempic, aspirin and more
- 2.3 Brain, behaviour and learning
- 2.30 Resisting temptation
- 2.31 Ultra Processed Food – part I Background
- 2.32 Ultra Processed Food – part II Additives
- 2.33 Curiosity
- 2.34 The origins of inequality
- 2.35 Self-discipline and laziness
- 2.36 Blood and bones
- 2.37 The liver
- 2.4 Enzymes
- 2.5 Vaccination and antibodies
- 2.6 Sugar, carbs and type-2 diabetes
- 2.7 COVID-19 part 1: Viruses, Lungs and Vaccines
- 2.8 COVID-19 part 2: epidemics, protection and social behaviour
- 2.9 Mutation, genes and proteins
- 2.16 Dreaming and sleeping
- The world around us
- 3.1 Whistling in the Wind
- 3.10 How do plants ‘know’ when to flower?
- 3.11 Relativity
- 3.12 Reasons to be (a bit) cheerful (sometimes)
- 3.13 The sun sets in the West – does it?
- 3.14 Making decisions
- 3.15 Sticking Together: the science of adhesion
- 3.16 the perennial question of sex
- 3.17 Singing and navigating – the extraordinary feats of ordinary birds
- 3.18 Energy and force – what’s the difference?
- 3.19 Highs, lows, rain and snow: interpreting weather maps
- 3.2 The geometry of ice
- 3.20 Gravity part 1: gravitational force and the solar system
- 3.21 Gravity part 2: star formation and Einstein’s alternative concept
- 3.22 The James Webb Space Telescope: images from the early universe
- 3.23 Gears
- 3.24 Combatting climate change – part one
- 3.24 Combatting Climate Change – part two
- 3.26 Autumn leaves and the cycle of life
- 3.27 Falling under gravity
- 3.28 AI: comparing machines and brains
- 3.29 Playgrounds – a lesson in physics
- 3.3 Walking on water – the story of surface tension
- 3.30 Must chemistry by boring?
- 3.31 Floods and other flowing things
- 3.32 Where does electricity come from?
- 3.33 Steam power in the industrial revolution.
- 3.34 ‘Rare earths’ and the green revolution
- 3.35 Dark Matter
- 3.36 Flooding and climate change
- 3.37 To the Moon and Back
- 3.4 The colour of light
- 3.5. Atmospheric rivers
- 3.6 Aeroplanes– what on Earth keeps them up?
- 3.7 Why your ears go ‘pop’
- 3.8 Fire: why wood burns
- 3.9 A nice warm shower: heat and temperature
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