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Chemical weapons, 30,000 year old virus, Maternal health Ethiopia

Destroying Syria’s chemical weapons, A 30,000 year-old virus comes back to life, Community-based approaches to Ethiopian maternal health

Chemical weapons
Disposing of Syria’s chemical weapons is a difficult task, both politically and technically. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), responsible for the decommissioning, has kitted out a special ship, the MV Cape Ray to hydrolyse "priority" toxic substances. Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a chemical weapons expert from SecureBio, explains why destroying chemical precursors on dry land is not an option and whether the job will be done on time.

Tracking turtles
Satellite tags have finally given researchers insight into the "lost years" of loggerhead turtles. After many failed attempts, researchers have worked out how to attach the tiny tags to the months-old animals during the uncertain period when they leave US coastal waters and head out into the Atlantic Ocean.
The data suggests the loggerheads can spend some time living in amongst floating mats of Sargassum seaweed, in the Sargasso Sea

Composing in Colour
The composer, Neil Harbisson, has a rare medical condition which has left him unable to distinguish colour. Instead his world is black and white. But technology has come to his aid. Through a device called an eyeborg, surgically attached to his skull, he is able to translate colours into sound. Neil Harbisson hears colours, and recently, collaborating on the Vodafone First project, he put on a first ever colour-composed concert in Barcelona. Harbisson joins Click to describe his unique talent.

(Photo: A special ship, the MV Cape Ray. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP/ Getty Images)

50 minutes

Last on

Sun 9 Mar 2014 14:06GMT

Chapters

  • Chemical weapons

    The difficult challenge ahead of disposing of Syria’s chemical weapons

    Duration: 05:39

  • 30,000 year-old virus

    An ancient virus comes back to life

    Duration: 07:02

  • Ethiopian maternal health

    Community-based approaches to reduce maternal and newborn mortality

    Duration: 05:57

  • Reducing sugar intake

    People are now being advised to halve the amount of sugar in their diet

    Duration: 03:35

  • Animal navigation

    How animals find their way home

    Duration: 08:45

  • Tracking turtles

    Satellite tags have given researchers insight into the "lost years" of loggerhead turtles

    Duration: 05:51

  • TBC: Bering Land Bridge Refuge

    Early American settlers may have used the Bering land bridge as a stopover

    Duration: 04:16

  • Composing in Colour

    The musician, Neil Harbisson, describes his use of a special device to compose in colour

    Duration: 07:19

Broadcast

  • Sun 9 Mar 2014 14:06GMT

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