The Life Scientific

A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Tuesdays

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304 Episodes

  1. Sheila Willis on using science to help solve crime

    Published: 3/27/2024
  2. Sir Charles Godfray on parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people

    Published: 3/19/2024
  3. Jonathan Van-Tam on Covid communication and the power of football analogies

    Published: 3/12/2024
  4. Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots

    Published: 12/19/2023
  5. Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful

    Published: 12/12/2023
  6. Sir Harry Bhadeshia on the choreography of metals

    Published: 12/5/2023
  7. Cathie Sudlow on data in healthcare

    Published: 11/28/2023
  8. Sir Michael Berry on phenomena in physics' borderlands

    Published: 11/21/2023
  9. Professor Sarah Harper on how population change is remodelling societies.

    Published: 11/14/2023
  10. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on human evolution and parenthood

    Published: 11/7/2023
  11. Edward Witten on 'the theory of everything'

    Published: 10/31/2023
  12. Alex Antonelli on learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate change

    Published: 9/19/2023
  13. Paul Murdin on the first ever identification of a black hole

    Published: 9/12/2023
  14. Bahija Jallal on the biotech revolution in cancer therapies

    Published: 9/5/2023
  15. Sir Colin Humphreys on electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world

    Published: 8/29/2023
  16. Chris Barratt on head-banging sperm and a future male contraceptive pill

    Published: 8/22/2023
  17. Gideon Henderson on climate ‘clocks’ and dating ice ages

    Published: 8/15/2023
  18. Deborah Greaves on wave power and offshore renewable energy

    Published: 8/8/2023
  19. Harald Haas on making waves in light communication

    Published: 6/27/2023
  20. Anne Ferguson-Smith on unravelling epigenetics

    Published: 6/20/2023

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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