Are implanted brain chips the future?
Also how we measure distance in space and what drugs in sewage are doing to our frogs.
Elon Musk鈥檚 implanted brain chip, Neuralink, is coming to the UK for clinical trials. Is controlling computers with our minds a future reality or is it all hype? Neuroscientists Dean Burnett and Christina Maher weigh in.
Zoologist Jules Howard ponders the strange effects drugs in our sewage have on frogs from his garden pond.
How do we measure the distance to distant galaxies? Astrophysicist Edward Gomez answers a listener's burning question.
And a 101 on blood groups from Dr Lise Estcourt.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton
Producers: Ella Hubber, Gerry Holt, Sophie Ormiston
Editor: Martin Smith
Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
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