In his second lecture, Professor Lewis Wolpert explains how during development, cells communicate with each other to form tissues, and sometimes the French flag...

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In his third lecture, Professor Lewis Wolpert explains how the different types of cells in our body arise during development, and how this is down to DNA.

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In his fourth lecture, Professor Lewis Wolpert explores the development of the humble fruit fly, and how its genes form its different parts.

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In his sixth and final lecture, Professor Lewis Wolpert take us through the science of 'growing', the role hormones play, and the consequences of time on the body.

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The smooth surface of the shallow water covering this huge salt flat in Bolivia acts like a giant mirror. Tourists travel to the Salar de Uyuni to see the effect and walk out into the lake. Now scientists have used satellite data and on-the-ground measurements…

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After the successful Artemis I uncrewed flight around the Moon in 2022, Artemis II is the next step in our journey from the Moon to Mars. This mission will be the Artemis program’s first crewed mission, with four astronauts flying around the Moon in 10 days.…

After the successful Artemis I uncrewed flight around the Moon in 2022, Artemis II is the next step in our journey from the Moon to Mars. This mission will be the Artemis program’s first crewed mission, with four astronauts flying around the Moon in 10 days.…

The four astronauts of Artemis II, which will lift off to fly around the Moon in early 2026, are sharing updates on the mission and taking questions from media.

Artemis II, a 10-day mission to confirm the systems and hardware necessary for human deep space…

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Whether you saw a quantum computer featured in a tech news blog post, or that Black Mirror episode "Joan is Awful", the chandelier-like look may have inspired the thought "Why does it look like that?" Well, it's not for the sci-fi aesthetic. It's to make…

Dig into the Greek myth of Dionysus, the god of winemaking and excess, and his journey to his ancestral home in Thebes.

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Find out how AI is helping to decipher genomes, uncover the secrets of human biology, and accelerate medical discoveries.

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When humans are gone, nature will reclaim our cities and break down much of what we've built. But some of the things we've made will last much longer than others, and they're…

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