A handshake or a hug can be surprisingly important to our mental health. So how does it affect us when we have a lot less physical touch in our lives and what can we do about it? We speak to psychologist Alex Parker from Victoria University to find out. Listen to DW's science podcast for a different angle on the coronavirus — five minutes every day from Germany.

Schools have started again in Germany after the summer break. Students and teachers are back in the classroom, so we discuss how Germany is bringing kids back to in-person learning and what might lay ahead for German schools. Listen to DW's science podcast for a different angle on the coronavirus — five minutes every day from Germany.

How do we stave off burnout while working from home? Should we use fans when temperatures rise? And do we need eggs to create mRNA vaccines? Listen to DW's science podcast for a different angle on the coronavirus — five minutes every day from Germany.

As the pandemic takes bigger bites out of nations' economies, jobs and livelihoods are vanishing. Financial worries are a kind of stress that requires its own "medicine". Financial therapist Nicole Iacovoni helps us get sorted out when it comes to money. Listen to DW's science podcast for a different angle on the coronavirus — five minutes every day from Germany.

Listen to DW's 30-minute science show. Feeling down? Join the (global) club! In this episode we tackle some of the pandemic-induced mental health issues facing so many of us. We talk financial therapy, how to stay healthy without human touch, and how lockdown has been especially painful for Indians.

It enacted one of the world's strictest lockdowns. Yet now, India tops the charts in new daily infections. What happened? Listen to DW's science podcast for a different angle on the coronavirus — five minutes every day from Germany.

Feeling forgetful? Then join us for a memory master class from a German world champion. Also, how to keep your phone's most intimate… stuff locked away from those who want it, and sci-fi's contribution to that shiny thing in your pocket.

We can bring Neanderthals back, a la Jurassic Park, with technologies we have today. So... should we? Would it explain why they died just 40,000 years ago? Join us in a German valley, at site of "Neanderthal 1," to track the rise — and perplexing fall — of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.

Science unscripted is off for a couple weeks, but that doesn't mean you can't interact with us and catch up on our past episodes.

Listen to DW's 30-minute science show. In this episode, we look at how the coronavirus — and the human body's reaction to it — changes over time: New research shows antibody levels mysteriously plummeting, a virus whose genetic code is mutating and (in better news) novel vaccines that will hopefully address both.