Over many thousands of years, our hunting-gathering ancestors foraged and tracked down a whole host of plants and animals.Then people learned that you could derive more value from nature by taming and domesticating it, and farming and civilisation as we know it had begun. In her book 'Tamed', the writer, TV presenter and anthropologist Professor Alice Roberts tracks 10 species that changed our world. From dogs, apples and wheat to rice, horses and maize, she discusses how we shaped these species to our wants and needs and how the science of genetics is revealing surprising stories about the plants and animals we've domesticated...starting with the origin and evolution of our best friend, the dog. Alice Roberts' book 'Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World' is published by Hutchinson/Penguin Random House.

Can microbes help us grow more food? Cryptojacking, social media damage, ballooning wine glasses and the power of evaporation.

Naturally occurring microbes living on plants can be used to boost the yield, nutrition and even taste of corn, soybeans, rice and tomatoes. This Way Up visits a biotech startup manipulating microbes in Missouri.

'Cryptojacking' is not the latest urban dance craze, but a way your computer or smartphone gets hijacked to mine cryptocurrencies without you knowing. Also why some heavy hitting ex-Facebookers are criticising social media, and the threat it poses to democracy and the societies we live in.

In Naked Science news, empirical evidence that wine glasses have got bigger... way bigger, and a potential breakthrough in the treatment of the degenerative brain condition Huntington's Disease.

Water is evaporating all over the world right now, so what if we could capture the energy created by this process? That's the thrust of some interesting work going on at Columbia University.

DIY gene therapies, real time tumour monitoring, turning rubbish into revenue, and retailers' extended warranties.

How far would you go to find a cure if you were diagnosed with a terminal illness? An emerging underground community is taking a DIY approach, looking to hack the drawn-out process of drug development, animal testing and clinical trials by researching, making and then taking their own genetic treatments at home. Kristen V Brown of Gizmodo is working on a book about this biohacker movement.

The traditional way of diagnosing if someone has cancer involves blood tests, medical imaging and taking tissue samples or biopsies. But a team from The Broad Institute in Massachusetts are using blood tests alone to detect and monitor the disease.

How can you turn junk into cash, and encourage manufacturers and consumers to do the right thing when it comes to cutting down and disposing of packaging waste?