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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 mankind
Hiranya Peiris is playing a starring role in a movie that promises to tell perhaps the greatest story of all time. However, it’s a movie wit...
As a child growing up on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya, Washington Yotto Ochieng once watched a plane cross the night sky and...
Working on a remote tropical island in the Atlantic might sound like some sort of romantic idyll - but trying to conduct scientific research...
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...
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...
Ever heard of the unsuccessful Dutch painter who decided to humiliate his critics by forging Vermeers, which the artworld subsequently dubbe...
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 COP30 climate summit is taking place in the Brazilian city of Belém, a gateway to the Amazon rainforest, which continues to face widespr...
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...
Caroline Smith is passionate about space rocks, whether they’re samples collected from the surface of asteroids and the Moon and hopefully M...
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...
There are problems and tasks so hard and complicated that it would take today’s most powerful supercomputers millions of years to crack them...
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...
"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...
Movies might have us believe that bomb disposal comes down to cutting the right wire. In fact, explosive devices are complex and varied - an...
Many people will be familiar with Parkinson’s disease: the progressive brain disorder that causes symptoms including tremors and slower move...
How do you feel about snakes? What about highly venomous ones? For Mark O’Shea, close encounters with the world’s most rare and deadly snake...
There can't be many people in the world who've saved lives in hospital emergency rooms and also helped care for the wellbeing of astronauts...
Chemical reactions are the backbone of modern society: the energy we use, the medicines we take, our housing materials, even the foods we ea...
Have you ever considered the lighter side of dark matter? Comedy has proved an unexpectedly succesful way to engage people with science - as...
As a young man, traveling in Africa, Tim Coulson - now Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford - became seriously ill with malaria...
Claudia de Rham has rather an unusual relationship with gravity. While she has spent her career exploring its fundamental nature, much of he...
When you think of Artificial Intelligence, does it inspire confidence, or concern? Although it's now generally accepted that this technology...
A frozen, white world at the far-reaches of the globe, where you're surrounded by snow and silence, might sound rather appealing. Factor in...
Welcome to a world where medicine meets politics: a space that brings together scientific research, government wrangling, public push-back a...
Have you ever pondered the fact that the universe is expanding? And not only that, it's expanding at an increasing speed - meaning everythin...
How much information can you extract from a burnt fragment of human bone? Quite a lot, it turns out - not only about the individual, but als...
Surgeons often have to deal with the consequences of violent attacks - becoming all too familiar with patterns of public violence, and peaks...
Doyne Farmer is something of a rebel. Back in the seventies, when he was a student, he walked into a casino in Las Vegas, sat down at a roul...
Elephants are the largest living land mammal and today our planet is home to three species: the African bush elephant, the African forest el...
What does it take to earn the nickname, ‘The Leonardo da Vinci of heart surgery’? That's the moniker given to today's guest - a man who pion...
What's it like living underwater for two weeks? What's the trickiest part of training to be an astronaut? What are the most memorable sights...
As the famous frog once said, it's not easy being green. And when it comes to decarbonising industry, indeed, reducing emissions of all sort...
Rosalie David is a pioneer in the study of ancient Egypt. In the early 1970s, she launched a unique project to study Egyptian mummified bodi...
In the summer of 2003, Europe experienced its most intense heatwave on record - one that saw more than 70,000 people lose their lives. Exper...
Imagine a nanoparticle, less that a thousandth of the width of a human hair, that is so precise that it can carry a medicine to just where i...
Darren Croft studies one of the ocean’s most charismatic and spectacular animals – the killer whale. Orca are probably best known for their...
Bill Gates is one of the world's best-known billionaires - but after years at the corporate coalface building a software empire and a vast f...
The final episode in this series of The Life Scientific is a journey through space and time, via black holes and wormholes, taking in Nobel-...
It's summer - no really - and although the weather might have been mixed, the sporting line-up has been undeniably scorching - from the back...
The engineering industry, like many other STEM sectors, has a problem with diversity: one that Dawn Bonfield believes we can and must fix, i...
In recent decades, we've taken huge steps forward in treating formerly fatal viruses: with pharmacological breakthroughs revolutionising tre...
From anorexia nervosa to binge-eating, eating disorders are potentially fatal conditions that are traditionally very difficult to diagnose a...
Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder that makes renders the body’s connective tissues incredibly fragile; this can weaken the heart, leadin...
Many of us have heard of seismology, the study of earthquakes; but what about asteroseismology, focusing on vibrations in stars? Conny Aerts...
What is the universe made of? Where does space dust come from? And how exactly might one go about putting on a one-man-show about Sir Isaac...
With 86 billion nerve cells joined together in a network of 100 trillion connections, the human brain is the most complex system in the know...
The reputation of the nuclear industry has had highs and lows during the career of Dr Fiona Rayment, the President of the Nuclear Institute....
We are fascinated by dinosaurs. From blockbuster hits to bestselling video games, skeleton exhibitions to cuddly plushies, the creatures tha...
Dr Sheila Willis is a forensic scientist who was Director General of Forensic Science Ireland for many years. She has spent her life using s...