The Life Scientific
A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Tuesdays

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323 Episodes
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Sir Charles Godfray on parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people
Published: 3/19/2024 -
Jonathan Van-Tam on Covid communication and the power of football analogies
Published: 3/12/2024 -
Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots
Published: 12/19/2023 -
Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful
Published: 12/12/2023 -
Sir Harry Bhadeshia on the choreography of metals
Published: 12/5/2023 -
Cathie Sudlow on data in healthcare
Published: 11/28/2023 -
Sir Michael Berry on phenomena in physics' borderlands
Published: 11/21/2023 -
Professor Sarah Harper on how population change is remodelling societies.
Published: 11/14/2023 -
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on human evolution and parenthood
Published: 11/7/2023 -
Edward Witten on 'the theory of everything'
Published: 10/31/2023 -
Alex Antonelli on learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate change
Published: 9/19/2023 -
Paul Murdin on the first ever identification of a black hole
Published: 9/12/2023 -
Bahija Jallal on the biotech revolution in cancer therapies
Published: 9/5/2023 -
Sir Colin Humphreys on electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world
Published: 8/29/2023 -
Chris Barratt on head-banging sperm and a future male contraceptive pill
Published: 8/22/2023 -
Gideon Henderson on climate ‘clocks’ and dating ice ages
Published: 8/15/2023 -
Deborah Greaves on wave power and offshore renewable energy
Published: 8/8/2023 -
Harald Haas on making waves in light communication
Published: 6/27/2023 -
Anne Ferguson-Smith on unravelling epigenetics
Published: 6/20/2023 -
Anne-Marie Imafidon on fighting for diversity and equality in science
Published: 6/13/2023
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 us in the future