For Dear Science this week, Professor Allan Blackman chatted to us about the cause for Beethoven's deafness, the first recorded vaccination, and researchers mapping a small part of the brain. 

For Dear Science this week Doctor Cushla McGoverin chatted to us about an orangutan treating its own injury, beluga whales changing the shape of their foreheads, and the development of skin burn healing bandages from plant based materials. 

For Dear Science this week, Professor Allan Blackman chats to us about false stoner stereotypes, technology to differentiate elephant and mammoth ivory, and fixed messaging on the Voyager-1 probe.