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1:50 PM.Professor David Relman of Stanford University is looking at the link between microbes and premature birth. Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Dr Chris Smith on an artificial form of photosynthesis that can turn carbon dioxide into methane gas and Dutch scientists think they've found a vaccine that can protect from all sorts of different… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.The English naturalist Nick Davies has been watching the cuckoo for over 30 years and his book 'Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature' is published by Bloomsbury. Read more Audio

1:01 PM.Cuckoos, flu vaccines and and the potential link between microbes and premature birth. Audio

12:50 PM.Peter Griffin with technology news and You Tube launches its own gaming channel. Also the Government wants to explore 'digital convergence' and Facebook will start using real people to help you find… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Bronwen Connor and her team at the University of Auckland are looking at ways of reprogramming human cells with the aim or treating brain injuries and diseases like Parkinson's and Huntington's. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The role of dance in helping people who suffer from stroke, Parkinson's disease and other neurological conditions. Rachel Horwell offers Dance for PD classes. Cheryl Cameron and Ian Jenkins add a… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Therapeutic dance, reprogramming human cells and tech news. Audio

1:50 PM.Scientists are fighting tsetse flies and the sleeping sickness they spread using the colour blue. Professor Steve Torr from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is using this knowledge to design… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Peter Griffin's in Israel looking at how it's become a 'start up nation'. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.'The Triumph of Seeds' is the name of Thor Hanson's book describing how grains, nuts, kernels, pulses and pips have shaped human history. Read more Audio

1:01 PM.The Triumph of Seeds, Israel startup nation, and fighting the tsetse fly using the colour blue. Audio

12:50 PM.Mark Ditmer is a researcher at the University of Minnesota who's using heart rate monitors to study the reaction of black bears to drones. Read more Audio

12:40 PM.The BBC's Celia Hatton enters the world of China's performance websites, where singers and other performers can earn big bucks and attract millions of online viewers every day. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.How keeping chickens is making people happier in retirement homes. Douglas Hunter's the director of a charity called Equal Arts that set up HenPower. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved a drug to treat female sexual dysfunction. Dr Ray Moynihan has been studying the research and the marketing surrounding the subject for more than… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.'Female Viagra', hens in rest homes, China's streaming stars and animals and drones. Audio

1:50 PM.Chris Pires of the Bond Life Sciences Center at the University of Missouri is tracking an evolutionary battle between caterpillars and plants that's made our wasabi, mustard and horseradish even… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Matthew Vincent is a 'cyber archaeologist' working on ProjectMosul.org. He's using photos and images to recreate 3D representations of historical objects and ancient artefacts destroyed in ongoing… Read more Video, Audio

1:10 PM.How listening to music can relieve pain and help you recover after surgery. Dr Catherine Meads from Brunel University has conducted a meta-analysis of more than 70 studies in The Lancet. Read more Audio

1:01 PM.Music and healing, Vitamania, Project Mosul and condiment evolution. Audio

12:50 PM.Daniel Bjorkegren of Brown University is running a trial in the Caribbean to see how mobile phone data can be used to assess someone's credit worthiness. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.A listener contemplates his digital afterlife. Peter Griffin has some tips for managing a way through your final exit. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.PAWS is a real time bio-security network that senses pests using touchscreen technology. Ecologist Dr Helen Blackie of Boffa Miskell and Kenji Irie from Lincoln Agritech demo the system. Read more Audio