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The Life Scientific at 10: What makes a scientist?
Jim Al-Khalili and distinguished guests reflect on ten years of The Life Scientific.
The Patrick Vallance Interview
Science and our future
Tim Spector and personalised diets for long term health
Professor Tim Spector on fuelling gut microbes for long term health.
Tim Clutton-Brock on meerkats, red deer and evolution
What makes meerkats so cooperative and why do sons cost mothers more than daughters?
Sharon Peacock on hunting pandemic variants of concern
Leading the UK's hunt for new and dangerous Covid-19 variants.
Julia Shaw on memories that aren't true
Can we trust our memories of events? Julia Shaw talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA
The man who found a way to decode DNA at speed.
Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals
How did mammals come to dominate our planet? Prof Steve Brusatte talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Ben Garrod on conservation and extinction
What can bones tell us about evolution, behaviour and extinction?
Chi Onwurah on why engineering is a caring profession.
Why politics needs more scientists and engineers.
Pete Smith on why soil matters
Restore peat bogs to mitigate climate change and improve bio-diversity.
Jacinta Tan on anorexia nervosa and the mind
How does a person with anorexia nervosa think? Jacinta Tan talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Adam Hart on ants, bees and insect burgers
When does a waggle dance become a tremble dance?
Vlatko Vedral on the universe as quantum information
A self-confessed physics fundamentalist decodes reality.
Sir Martin Landray on saving over a million lives
Sir Martin Landray on how he discovered the drugs for Covid-19 with the RECOVERY Trial.
s Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize
Turning microbes into living factories.
Judith Bunbury on the shifting River Nile in the time of the Pharaohs
A geo-archaeologist digs down to enrich our knowledge of ancient Egypt and beyond.
Emily Holmes on how to treat trauma
Why images are more powerful than words in shaping how we think and feel.
Can computers discover new medicines?
Using AI to discover drugs. Daphne Koller tells Jim Al-Khalili about her life and work.
The sounds of coral reefs
Jim Al-Khalili meets Tim Lamont, a young ecologist making waves restoring coral reefs
Why study sewage?
Leon Barron tells Jim Al-Khalili how he developed an intense interest in sewage.
A ion for fruit flies
Bambos Kyriacou tells Jim Al-Khalili why he studies the behaviour of fruit flies.
Chris Elliott on fighting food fraud
How ‘fingerprinting’ technology could help prevent another horse meat scam.
Pam Shaw on the research battle against motor neurone disease
How new drug trials could mark a turning point in MND research.
Rebecca Kilner on beetle behaviours and evolution
How corpse-based beetles can answer long-standing questions about human evolution.
Clifford Johnson on making sense of black holes and movie plots
Jim Al-Khalili hears about new approaches to quantum questions and using science in films.
Adrian Smith on the power of Bayesian statistics
How a once-derided approach to statistics paved the way for AI.
Haley Gomez on cosmic dust
Jim Al-Khalili talks to astrophysicist Haley Gomez.
Danny Altmann on how T cells fight disease
Jim Al-Khalili talks T cells, our immune response and Long Covid with Prof Danny Altmann.
Julia King on manipulating metals and decarbonising transport
A metals-focused engineer's route from academia to industry to the House of Lords.
Marie Johnston on health psychology and the power of behavioural shifts
Why subtle changes in how we act can radically change our lives and our health.
