, allowing them to overcome fatal diseases. There are a number of different treatments which have seen success, and the team finds out how they work.DNA of two people who were killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii has been sequenced
. The team finds out how the DNA from 79 AD managed to survive the heat of the volcano, and what the findings tell us about the lives of these two people.a NASA-funded team is developing a new more agile type of solar sailHaider Warraich, a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, discusses his new book ‘The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain’, which addresses “modern medicine’s failure to understand pain”.