New technology might allow us to eradicate the mosquito - one of the deadliest creatures who ever lived. But is deliberate extinction ethically defensible?
In 1954 a Glasgow cemetery filled with children hunting a vampire. Within a week the whole country knew what had made them do it, and nobody had checked.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the most senior figure in US health, has spent decades undermining vaccines, denying the reality of AIDS, and endangering Americans.
From the archives in 1993, Taner Edis looks at what was known about the origin of the universe at the time, and the importance of critiquing current science.
