603 Episodes

  1. Solving the plastic problem

    Published: 6/20/2018

  2. Everything that's wrong with the human body

    Published: 6/13/2018

  3. How to keep yourself busy in space

    Published: 6/6/2018

  4. The truth about dinosaurs

    Published: 5/30/2018

  5. To become Prime Minister, change your voice

    Published: 5/23/2018

  6. The neuroscience of happiness

    Published: 5/10/2018

  7. Changing our behaviour with virtual reality

    Published: 5/3/2018

  8. What it’s really like to die

    Published: 4/25/2018

  9. How to push the limits of human endurance

    Published: 4/18/2018

  10. Transhumanism - using technology to live forever

    Published: 4/11/2018

  11. Nudge theory

    Published: 4/4/2018

  12. Project Discovery and its search for exoplanets

    Published: 3/29/2018

  13. Remembering Stephen Hawking - the Galaxy's best known scientist

    Published: 3/21/2018

  14. Exploding Head Syndrome

    Published: 3/14/2018

  15. Adventures in brain enhancement

    Published: 3/7/2018

  16. The future of humanity

    Published: 2/28/2018

  17. How emotions are made

    Published: 2/21/2018

  18. The London Fatberg + Why you should break up with your phone

    Published: 2/14/2018

  19. How plants can survive space missions and Chernobyl

    Published: 2/1/2018

  20. Christmas lectures past and present

    Published: 12/21/2017

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