The Life Scientific
A podcast by BBC Radio 4
328 Episodes
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Myles Allen on understanding climate change
Published: 3/4/2020 -
Matthew Cobb on how we detect smells
Published: 3/3/2020 -
Anya Hurlbert on seeing colour
Published: 3/2/2020 -
Optical communications pioneer Polina Bayvel
Published: 2/11/2020 -
2019 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, Sir Peter Ratcliffe
Published: 2/4/2020 -
Peter Fonagy on a revolution in mental health care
Published: 1/28/2020 -
Susannah Maidment on stegosaurs
Published: 1/14/2020 -
Patricia Wiltshire on how pollen can solve crimes.
Published: 1/7/2020 -
Elizabeth Fisher on chromosomes in mice and men
Published: 11/12/2019 -
Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence
Published: 11/5/2019 -
Saiful Islam on materials to power the 21st century
Published: 10/29/2019 -
Adrian Owen on scanning for awareness in the injured brain
Published: 10/22/2019 -
Martha Clokie on the viruses that could improve our health
Published: 10/15/2019 -
Anne Magurran on how to measure biodiversity
Published: 10/8/2019 -
Richard Wiseman on lying, luck and the paranormal
Published: 10/1/2019 -
Jonathan Ball on his arms race against viruses
Published: 7/30/2019 -
Robin Dunbar on why we have friends
Published: 7/23/2019 -
Katherine Joy on moon rock
Published: 7/16/2019 -
DNA detective Turi King
Published: 7/9/2019 -
Ewine van Dishoeck on cosmic chemistry
Published: 7/2/2019
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