Are we close to a cancer vaccine?
Cancer is a disease that will affect 1 in 5 people in our lifetime, and it’s estimated that around 20 million people worldwide will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in 2025.But how might a vaccin...
7 Jan 202522min
Can RFK Jnr ‘make America healthy again?’
Robert F Kennedy Jr, nephew of America's 35th President, John F. Kennedy, has been nominated to be the next US health secretary by President-elect Donald Trump. The post oversees everything from medic...
2 Jan 202522min
Can Bhutan retain its happiness?
The Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, sandwiched between China and India, is perhaps best known around the globe for its unconventional measure of national development: Gross National Happiness. The concep...
24 Dec 202422min
Can Nato protect the Baltic Sea?
Accusations of sabotage have been made after a Chinese merchant ship cut through two important undersea cables in the Baltic Sea. Eight of the nine states in the Baltic are members of Nato but Russia ...
17 Dec 202423min
Does Germany need to reinvent itself?
When Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister, Christian Lindner last month, Germany’s ‘traffic light’ government collapsed, an uneasy coalition between parties with differing perspectives an...
10 Dec 202423min
Is Europe’s car industry at a crossroads?
The car industry across the European Union employs over thirteen million people, both directly and indirectly, that’s around six percent of the bloc’s workforce. But in recent years, Europe’s manufac...
3 Dec 202422min
What’s the future for Syria’s divided north?
When protests against decades of rule by the Assad family were crushed by Syrian government forces in the spring of 2011, opposition groups took up arms and the country descended into civil war. The ...
27 Nov 202422min
Can Boeing turn it around?
Aerospace giant Boeing has had big problems to overcome since the crashes of two of its 737 Max aircraft. Its situation was compounded this year with another safety scare and a strike losing it billio...
21 Nov 202422min
