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The Life Scientific
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
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Listen to The Life Scientific, a Science & Medicine podcast by BBC. Stream 353 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 353 episodesWashington Yotto Ochieng on the navigation tech that keeps our world moving
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...
Lucy Carpenter on how our oceans are destroying ozone
Working on a remote tropical island in the Atlantic might sound like some sort of romantic idyll - but trying to conduct scientific research...
Jens Juul Holst on the gut hormone discovery behind weight-loss drugs
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...
Jim Ashworth-Beaumont on how a near-fatal accident made him a better clinician
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...
Jehane Ragai on the science of authenticating artworks
Ever heard of the unsuccessful Dutch painter who decided to humiliate his critics by forging Vermeers, which the artworld subsequently dubbe...
Tony Juniper on parrots, princes and environmental protection
Tony Juniper is an environmentalist who has worn many hats, over the course of his career. After developing a passion for birds in childhood...
Pierre Friedlingstein on carbon’s pivotal role in climate change
The COP30 climate summit is taking place in the Brazilian city of Belém, a gateway to the Amazon rainforest, which continues to face widespr...
Julia Simner on tasty words and hearing colours
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 on meteorites and potential ancient life on Mars
Caroline Smith is passionate about space rocks, whether they’re samples collected from the surface of asteroids and the Moon and hopefully M...
AP De Silva on building molecular fluorescence sensors for healthcare
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...
Peter Knight on quantum technologies
There are problems and tasks so hard and complicated that it would take today’s most powerful supercomputers millions of years to crack them...
Eleanor Schofield on conserving Tudor warship the Mary Rose
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...
George Church on reimagining woolly mammoths and virus-proofing humans
"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...
Gareth Collett on a career in bomb disposal
Movies might have us believe that bomb disposal comes down to cutting the right wire. In fact, explosive devices are complex and varied - an...
Sonia Gandhi on building model brains to tackle Parkinson’s disease
Many people will be familiar with Parkinson’s disease: the progressive brain disorder that causes symptoms including tremors and slower move...
Mark O'Shea on close encounters with venomous snakes
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...
Kevin Fong on medical planning for Mars and Earth-based emergencies
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...
Dame Pratibha Gai on training atoms to do what we want
Chemical reactions are the backbone of modern society: the energy we use, the medicines we take, our housing materials, even the foods we ea...
Catherine Heymans on the lighter side of the dark universe
Have you ever considered the lighter side of dark matter? Comedy has proved an unexpectedly succesful way to engage people with science - as...
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