The Life Scientific: Jens Juul Holst
As recently as a few years ago, the idea of a self-administered injection that would deliver proven weight-loss results might have sounded f...
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20 of 840 episodesThe Life Scientific: Jim Ashworth-Beaumont
It's a rare thing to encounter a medical specialist who has experience of his field from the expert and the patient perspective - but not un...
Inside Universe 25
“I shall largely speak of mice,” the paper begins “but my thoughts are on man.” So begins a truly extraordinary scientific paper, and an equ...
Dark Breath
In July 2024 a startling scientific paper was published. Headlined ‘Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor’, scientists...
Superbugs: Resistance Rising Part 3
The rapid spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is already claiming lives - and a far greater global crisis is on the horizon. In this thr...
Superbugs: Resistance rising, part 2
The rapid spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is already claiming lives and a far greater global crisis is on the horizon. In this three...
Superbugs: Resistance rising, part 1
The rapid spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is already claiming lives and a far greater global crisis is on the horizon. In the first...
The Life Scientific: Jehane Ragai
Ever heard of the unsuccessful Dutch painter who decided to humiliate his critics by forging Vermeers, which the artworld subsequently dubbe...
The Life Scientific: Tony Juniper
Tony Juniper is an environmentalist who has worn many hats, over the course of his career. After developing a passion for birds in childhood...
The Life Scientific: Pierre Friedlingstein
The COP30 climate summit is taking place in the Brazilian city of Belém, a gateway to the Amazon rainforest, which continues to face widespr...
The Life Scientific: Julia Simner
Imagine if you were listening to an opera or a Taylor Swift concert, and as the lights in the auditorium dimmed, the music was accompanied b...
The Life Scientific: Caroline Smith
Caroline Smith is passionate about space rocks, whether they’re samples collected from the surface of asteroids and the Moon and hopefully M...
The Life Scientific: AP De Silva
From humble beginnings in his native Sri Lanka, to a more than 40 year academic career at Queen’s University Belfast, Prof. AP (Amilra Prasa...
The Life Scientific: Eleanor Schofield
In July 1545, King Henry VIII watched from Southsea Castle on England's south coast as his fleet sailed out to face the French - only to wit...
The Life Scientific: Peter Knight
There are problems and tasks so hard and complicated that it would take today’s most powerful supercomputers millions of years to crack them...
Frontiers of Earth Science
The very latest developments in the world of Earth science with Roland Pease, recorded at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in Ne...
Frontiers of Space Science
The very latest developments in the world of space science with Roland Pease, recorded at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in Ne...
What is Quantum?
Quantum theory – our best understanding of the world at the smallest level – is famously weird and notoriously confusing. It’s a theory that...
The Life Scientific: George Church
"My ideas are often labelled as impossible, or useless, or both. Usually when people say that I'm on the right track." George Church is a ge...
The Life Scientific: Gareth Collett
Movies might have us believe that bomb disposal comes down to cutting the right wire. In fact, explosive devices are complex and varied - an...
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