The Life Scientific: Giles Yeo
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work.
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Lucy Cooke meets some of the animal kingdom’s nocturnal inhabitants to understand why it pays to stir once the...
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We humans are a supremely social species, but the coronavirus pandemic has forced many of us into solitary...
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You might think that sex is essential for life, but you'd be wrong! Lucy Cooke travels to the Hawaiian island of...
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The Evidence: The Shapeshifting Virus
News that at least three new variants of SARS-CoV-2 have emerged in three separate continents have sent a chill...
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When US health expert sighed last week that science could now speak again, his sense of relief was shared by many...
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Professor Dale Sanders has spent much of his life studying plants, seeking to understand why some thrive in a...
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Professor Andrew Fabian from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy has spent his career trying to unravel the mystery of...
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Marine conservationist Heather Koldewey
Professor Heather Koldewey wants to protect our oceans from over-fishing and plastic pollution. An academic who is...
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The year 2020 started with wildfires raging across parts of Australia, exceptional floods in East Africa, and a...
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Hopes and Fears for Covid-19 Vaccines
Less than a year in, and the first vaccines are already being rolled out, with many more in the pipeline. It is an...
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It’s amazing what we can learn from a pile of old bones. Having worked as a paediatric surgeon for several...
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Steve Haake has spent much of his career using technology to help elite sports people get better, faster and break...
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Is there a point in space where the Sun could heat a burrito perfectly? asks Will. The doctors tackle this and a...
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Today I learnt that tigons and ligers are what you get when lions and tigers interbreed?!’ surprised listener...
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The Evidence: Pandemic rules: follower or flouter?
Millions of us, across the world, are subject to curfews, stay-at-home orders and lockdowns but what makes us stick...
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Everyone knows about the Big Bang being the beginning of the universe and time - but when and how is it going to end?...
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Autism is a lifelong condition, often seen as particularly ‘male’. Yet a growing number of women, and...
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As large areas of the world have locked down this year, many of us have become more aware of the birdsong around us....
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Claudia Hammond asks if touch can be replicated digitally? What devices exist already and how likely are we to use...
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