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Adam Rutherford talks to Alzheimer鈥檚 researcher Dr Tara Spires-Jones about news of a failed drug clinical trial into Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease treatment by the drug company Eli

Style Transfer on Facebook
Anand Jagatia talks to Facebook鈥檚 Yann LeCun, about Style Transfer, a new technique enabling users of smart phone cameras to produce an image in the style of a famous painting.

Smart Bandages
British researchers have developed a 鈥渟mart鈥� bandage that could help burns sufferers in spotting infections earlier. Roland Pease investigates.

Automatic Speech Analysis
Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis and John Quinn describe how the UN initiative Pulse Lab Kampala is developing a prototype that makes it possible to conduct analysis of public discussions on the radio across Ugandan English, Luganda and Acholi.

Mind Reading
Could it be possible to broadcast our thoughts directly from our brains without the need for speech? Gaia Vince meets the scientists who say they鈥檙e getting close to being able to read minds.

From Supernovae to Hollywood
The Science Hour talks to Nathan Sanders the astrophysicist who gave up studying exploding stars to apply his maths to Hollywood stars in the movie business and who leads the Quantitative Team at Legendary Pictures.

(Photo caption: Alzheimer鈥檚 brain. Computer graphic of a vertical (coronal) slice through the brain of an Alzheimer patient (left) compared with a normal brain (right) 漏 Science Photo Library)

The Science Hour was presented by Gareth Mitchell with comments from Melissa Hogenboom of 蜜芽传媒 Earth

Producer: Colin Grant

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