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Extending life and defying death

We explore how we can live forever, including as a computer programme booted after you die. Plus news of why knuckles crack and using a dose of salmonella to combat cancer.

Striving for immortality: this week we explore the feasibility of eternal life. We talk to the UK's first man to have himself frozen for the future, a US doctor explains how a person can be resuscitated after an hour submerged in icy water, and physicist Michio Kaku speculates on the future existence of a "library of souls" where we live forever as a computer programme inside a robot. Plus, news of why knuckles go crack, how the brain decodes quickly and slowly repeating sounds, how Salmonella can be used to combat cancer and why men get competitive when it comes to sponsoring a woman.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 18 Apr 2015 05:00

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  • Sat 18 Apr 2015 05:00