Quantum. Series 1, Episode 4

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The latest developments in health, medicine, environmental issues, space and technology feature in this exciting and thought-provoking package of science stories. This episode features remarkable organisms discovered 840 metres beneath the ocean floor near the Solomon Islands and what the presence of these deep bacteria may mean for the origins of life forms in the cosmos; a mathematician who predicted the revolution in tactics that has changed the shape of one day cricket by using equations alone; the surprising links between two types of bacteria and the development of heart disease; and Australia's mangrove forests and the toll coastal development and water pollution are taking on these precious ecosystems.