The Life Scientific

Hannah Critchlow on the connected brain

With 86 billion nerve cells joined together in a network of 100 trillion connections, the human...

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Fiona Rayment on the applications of nuclear for net zero and beyond

The reputation of the nuclear industry has had highs and lows during the career of Dr Fiona...

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• 10 días

Nick Longrich on discovering new dinosaurs from overlooked bones

We are fascinated by dinosaurs. From blockbuster hits to bestselling video games, skeleton...

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• 17 días

Sheila Willis on using science to help solve crime

Dr Sheila Willis is a forensic scientist who was Director General of Forensic Science Ireland for...

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• 23 días

Sir Charles Godfray on parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people

Professor Charles Godfray, Director of the the Oxford Martin School tells Jim Al-Kahlili about...

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Jonathan Van-Tam on Covid communication and the power of football analogies

Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, or ‘JVT’ as he's arguably better known, first came to widespread public...

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Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots

Humans have a long-held fascination with the idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a dystopian...

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Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful

How do you solve a problem like CO2? As the curtain closes on the world’s most important climate...

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Sir Harry Bhadeshia on the choreography of metals

The Life Scientific zooms in to explore the intricate atomic make-up of metal alloys, with...

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Cathie Sudlow on data in healthcare

“Big data” and “data science” are terms we hear more and more these days. The idea that we can...

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Sir Michael Berry on phenomena in physics' borderlands

Professor Jim Al-Khalili meets one of Britain's greatest physicists, Sir Michael Berry. His work...

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Professor Sarah Harper on how population change is remodelling societies.

People around the world are living longer and, on the whole, having fewer children. What does...

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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on human evolution and parenthood

Our primate cousins fascinate us, with their uncanny similarities to us. And studying other apes...

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Edward Witten on 'the theory of everything'

The Life Scientific returns with a special episode from the USA; Princeton, New Jersey, to be...

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Introducing… Uncharted with Hannah Fry

Behind every line on a graph, there lies an extraordinary human story. Mathematician Hannah Fry...

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Alex Antonelli on learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate change

With the world's biodiversity being lost at an alarming rate, Alexandre Antonelli, Director of...

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• 7 meses

Paul Murdin on the first ever identification of a black hole

Astronomer Paul Murdin believes a good imagination is vital for scientists, since they're so...

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• 7 meses

Bahija Jallal on the biotech revolution in cancer therapies

Some of the most complex medicines available today are made from living cells or organisms -...

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Sir Colin Humphreys on electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world

How much more of our world could we understand, if we could take stock of it, one atom at a time?...

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Chris Barratt on head-banging sperm and a future male contraceptive pill

Reproductive science has come a long way in recent years, but there's still plenty we don't...

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