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The Bionic Eye might make you think of Geordi La Forge from Star Trek. Now scientists have restored the ability to read in a group of blind patients with progressive dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). And they did this by implanting a computer chip in the back of the eye. Professor Francesca Cordeiro, Head of Ophthalmology at Imperial College London, explains how bionic technology could provide future solutions for more people with sight loss. Researchers at the University of Sheffield have come up with a way to extract hormones from human remains dating back to the 1st century AD. Marnie Chesterton talks to Brenna Hassett, a bioarchaeologist at Lancashire University, to explore how skeletons obtained from pregnancy tests could provide new insights into human evolution. In a world of automation and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that every day people across the UK record weather observations that contribute to our understanding of climate science. Marnie meets Met Office volunteer Stephen Burt and University of Reading climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins to find out more. And science presenter Caroline Steele tells us about brand new discoveries that are changing our understanding of the world around us. If you would like to find out more about volunteering to collect rainfall data, please email [email protected]. If you are in Scotland, visit the SEPA website: https://www2.sepa.org.uk/rainfall/GetInvolved For more great science content, visit bbc.co.uk, search for BBC Inside Science and follow the links to the Open University. Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producer(s): Claire Salisbury, Ella Hubber, Jonathan Blackwell, Tim Dodd Editor: Martin Smith Production Coordinator: Jana Holsworth
