The Life Scientific

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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

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    Jul 23, 2024 – 28:21
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    Jul 16, 2024 – 28:39
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    Jul 9, 2024 – 28:36
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  • Mike Edmunds on decoding galaxies and ancient astronomical artefacts
    Apr 23, 2024 – 32:42
  • Hannah Critchlow on the connected brain
    Apr 16, 2024 – 28:09
  • Fiona Rayment on the applications of nuclear for net zero and beyond
    Apr 9, 2024 – 28:27
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    Apr 2, 2024 – 28:11
  • Sheila Willis on using science to help solve crime
    Mar 27, 2024 – 28:11
  • Sir Charles Godfray on parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people
    Mar 19, 2024 – 28:10
  • Jonathan Van-Tam on Covid communication and the power of football analogies
    Mar 12, 2024 – 36:49
  • Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots
    Dec 19, 2023 – 37:55
  • Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful
    Dec 12, 2023 – 28:24
  • Sir Harry Bhadeshia on the choreography of metals
    Dec 5, 2023 – 28:40
  • Cathie Sudlow on data in healthcare
    Nov 28, 2023 – 28:28
  • Sir Michael Berry on phenomena in physics' borderlands
    Nov 21, 2023 – 28:11
  • Professor Sarah Harper on how population change is remodelling societies.
    Nov 14, 2023 – 28:14
  • Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on human evolution and parenthood
    Nov 7, 2023 – 30:03
  • Edward Witten on 'the theory of everything'
    Oct 31, 2023 – 28:37
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    Sep 19, 2023 – 28:18
  • Paul Murdin on the first ever identification of a black hole
    Sep 12, 2023 – 32:13
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    Sep 5, 2023 – 28:17
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    Aug 29, 2023 – 28:13
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    Aug 22, 2023 – 28:39
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    Aug 15, 2023 – 28:26
  • Deborah Greaves on wave power and offshore renewable energy
    Aug 8, 2023 – 28:29
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    Jun 27, 2023 – 28:11
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    Jun 20, 2023 – 28:02
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    Jun 13, 2023 – 28:38
  • Bruce Malamud on modelling risk for natural hazards
    Jun 6, 2023 – 30:36
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    May 30, 2023 – 28:24
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