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20 of 62 episodesPolitical Animals: Sex-Switching Fish and Non-Binary Brains - 3/3
Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural worl...
Political Animals: Mole-Rat Queens and Genital Power - 2/3
Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural worl...
Political Animals: Sex, Monkeys and the 'Coy Female' Myth - 1/3
Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural worl...
Wild Inside: The Ocean Sunfish
Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish to unravel this bizarrely shaped predator's ability...
Wild Inside:The Burmese Python
Ben Garrod and Jess French delve deep inside the predatory Burmese python to examine its extraordinary body plan that enables it to catch, c...
Wild Inside: Jungle Royalty - The Jaguar
Wild Inside embarks on something we hardly ever witness – a look inside some of nature’s most wondrous animals. Its a rare chance to delve d...
The Life Scientific at 10: What does it take to be a scientist?
How damaging is the stereotype of white males in white coats? Do scientists think differently? Or do the qualities we associate with being a...
The Sir Patrick Vallance interview
As Chief Scientific Advisor to the government during a pandemic, Sir Patrick Vallance's calm, clear summaries of the state of our scientific...
The Men in the White Coats
Prof Andrea Sella on the shifting image of the scientist in popular culture, from Victor Frankenstein to Iron Man via victorious post-war bo...
Celebrating the life of Sir Clive Sinclair: Computers at home
This week in Scientifically… we celebrate the life of Sir Clive Sinclair with this episode from the series Computing Britain that looks at h...
Jim Al-Khalili's Life Scientific
In an ideal (quantum) world, Jim Al-Khalili would be interviewing himself about his life as a scientist but since the production team can’t...
Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 3
CRISPR is the latest and most powerful technique for changing the genetic code of living things. This method of gene editing is already show...
Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 2
Professor Matthew Cobb looks at how genetic engineering became big business - from the first biotech company that produced human insulin in...
Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 1
Biologist Matthew Cobb presents the first episode in a series which looks at the fifty year history of genetic engineering: from the concern...
The Blind Astronomer
This is the story, and the sound, of Puerto Rican scientist Wanda Díaz-Merced, who is revolutionising astronomy by turning data from space i...
Dare to Repair: Fixing the Future - Episode 3
Mark Miodownik, explores the environmental consequences of the throwaway society we have become and reveals that recycling electronic waste...
Dare To Repair: The Right to Repair - Episode 2
Many electronics manufacturers are making it harder and harder for individuals and independent repairers to fix their broken kit. There are...
Dare To Repair: How We Broke the Future - Episode 1
We love our electronic gadgets, gizmos and appliances. But when it comes to repairing and caring for them, UK citizens are second only to No...
Gagarin and the lost Moon
On 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became an explorer like none other before him, going faster and further than any human in history,...