The Life Scientific
A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Tuesdays
338 Episodes
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Sonia Gandhi on building model brains to tackle Parkinson’s disease
Published: 10/14/2025 -
Mark O'Shea on close encounters with venomous snakes
Published: 10/7/2025 -
Kevin Fong on medical planning for Mars and Earth-based emergencies
Published: 7/15/2025 -
Dame Pratibha Gai on training atoms to do what we want
Published: 7/8/2025 -
Catherine Heymans on the lighter side of the dark universe
Published: 7/1/2025 -
Tim Coulson on how predators shape ecosystems and evolution
Published: 6/24/2025 -
Claudia de Rham on playing with gravity
Published: 6/17/2025 -
Neil Lawrence on taking down the 'digital oligarchy' and why we shouldn't fear AI
Published: 6/10/2025 -
Liz Morris on Antarctic adventures and the melting polar ice sheets
Published: 6/3/2025 -
Anthony Fauci on a medical career navigating pandemics and presidents
Published: 5/27/2025 -
Brian Schmidt on Nobel Prize-winning supernovae and the joys of making wine
Published: 4/22/2025 -
Jacqueline McKinley on unearthing bones and stories at Britain's ancient burial sites
Published: 4/15/2025 -
Jonathan Shepherd on a career as a crime-fighting surgeon
Published: 4/8/2025 -
Doyne Farmer on making sense of chaos for a better world
Published: 4/1/2025 -
Tori Herridge on ancient dwarf elephants and frozen mammoths
Published: 3/25/2025 -
Sir Magdi Yacoub on pioneering heart transplant surgery
Published: 3/18/2025 -
Tim Peake on his journey to becoming an astronaut and science in space
Published: 12/31/2024 -
Anna Korre on capturing carbon dioxide and defying expectations
Published: 9/24/2024 -
Rosalie David on the science of Egyptian mummies
Published: 9/17/2024 -
Peter Stott on climate change deniers and Italian inspiration
Published: 9/10/2024
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future