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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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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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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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Gideon Henderson on climate ‘clocks’ and dating ice ages

We’re used to hearing the stories of scientists who study the world as it is now but what about...

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Deborah Greaves on wave power and offshore renewable energy

If you’ve ever seen the ocean during a storm, you’ll understand the extraordinary power contained...

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Harald Haas on making waves in light communication

Imagine a world in which your laptop or mobile device accesses the internet, not via radio waves...

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Anne Ferguson-Smith on unravelling epigenetics

Our genes can tell us so much about us, from why we look the way we look, think the way we think,...

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Anne-Marie Imafidon on fighting for diversity and equality in science

Anne-Marie Imafidon passed her computing A-Level at the age of 11 and by 16, was accepted to the...

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