Welcome to the 116th episode of the Short Science Podcast!Join Elizabeth Hauke for all the very best science in brief!

After the Short Science News in Brief, Archive News and Statistic of the week, we'll be looking at the science behind the recent headlines about how watching television could be shortening our lives. We'll also be considering the work of Andreas Vesalius and William Harvey in the birth of modern medicine.

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