The Life Scientific Episodes Available now
Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize
Turning microbes into living factories.
Sir Martin Landray on saving over a million lives
Sir Martin Landray on how he discovered the drugs for Covid-19 with the RECOVERY Trial.
Vlatko Vedral on the universe as quantum information
A self-confessed physics fundamentalist decodes reality.
Adam Hart on ants, bees and insect burgers
When does a waggle dance become a tremble dance?
Jacinta Tan on anorexia nervosa and the mind
How does a person with anorexia nervosa think? Jacinta Tan talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Pete Smith on why soil matters
Restore peat bogs to mitigate climate change and improve bio-diversity.
Chi Onwurah on why engineering is a caring profession.
Why politics needs more scientists and engineers.
Ben Garrod on conservation and extinction
What can bones tell us about evolution, behaviour and extinction?
Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals
How did mammals come to dominate our planet? Prof Steve Brusatte talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA
The man who found a way to decode DNA at speed.
