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Journeying into the future of medicine, what do we see? Implanted cells replacing medicines? Personalised therapy? Miniature devices roaming the body to seek and destroy rogue cells? It’s becoming possible to answer such questions.
The search for one of the most curious particles on the universe has consumed the lives of many scientists. But few have been rewarded for their labours. Frank Close reflects on an obituary, a quest, and the elusive nature of scientific success.
Do the best ideas really strike like a flash of ‘sudden genius’, or is there some build-up to them? Author and biographer Andrew Robinson ponders over some of the world’s famous creative breakthroughs to find out.
Doctors have long been able to heal the body: now scientists are developing radical ways of altering the mind. Governments must determine what practices to permit - and for this they need rational arguments to draw relevant distinctions. Time to call on the philosophers....?
Biologist and photographer Christopher Wills takes a bracing dip and discovers what is happening to once-endangered species off the coast of California.
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