“Noroviruses are perhaps the perfect human pathogen.” – Carl Zimmer on the everyone’s favourite cause of gutastrophe. Bonus: To study norovirus, scientists build a “humanoid simulating vomiting system” called Vomiting Larry.

For those of you in the UK, flirty rhinos, fighting giraffes, carnivorous crickets, and more incredible scenes from David Attenborough’s new series: Africa.

Brian Cox and Robin Ince interview David Attenborough, a man whose greatness comes not just from his amazing work but from his unerring humility. Plenty of that on display here.

A truly fascinating piece about people who wake up under anaesthesia.

It’s been a week of great loss for science. First, the death of Nobel prize-winner Rita Levi-Montalcini at 103. Read Alison Abbott’s