Mike Edmunds on the chemical make-up of galaxies and decoding the Antikythera Mechanism
Published on Tuesday, 23rd April 2024.
Neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow on connections within - and between - brains.
Published on Tuesday, 16th April 2024.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to the president of the Nuclear Institute about all things nuclear.
Published on Tuesday, 9th April 2024.
Jim Al-Khalili talks dinosaurs and ‘one in a million year’ events with Dr Nick Longrich.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd April 2024.
Forensic scientist Dr Sheila Willis on when the worlds of science and the law collide.
Published on Wednesday, 27th March 2024.
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work.
Published on Tuesday, 19th March 2024.
Sir Jonathan Van-Tam discusses his work around infectious diseases and Covid-19.
Published on Tuesday, 12th March 2024.
Michael Wooldridge, professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, talks AI.
Published on Tuesday, 19th December 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili chats to a 'solutions scientist' about solving our CO2 problem.
Published on Tuesday, 12th December 2023.
Sir Harry Bhadeshia on his work in metallurgy and choreographing crystalline structures.
Published on Tuesday, 5th December 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses population-wide health research with Professor Cathie Sudlow.
Published on Tuesday, 28th November 2023.
Professor Jim Al-Khalili meets one of Britain's greatest physicists, Sir Michael Berry
Published on Tuesday, 21st November 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Sarah Harper about societal ageing and falling fertility
Published on Tuesday, 14th November 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses monkey infanticide and human parenting with Sarah Hrdy.
Published on Tuesday, 7th November 2023.
Physicist Edward Witten on M-Theory, the leading contender for a 'theory of everything'.
Published on Tuesday, 31st October 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili meets the Kew Gardens' director using bio-geography to protect biodiversity
Published on Tuesday, 19th September 2023.
Paul Murdin shares his story of the first identification of a black hole, Cygnus X-1.
Published on Tuesday, 12th September 2023.
Bahija Jallal on the biotech revolution in cancer therapies.
Published on Tuesday, 5th September 2023.
Sir Colin Humphreys on LEDs, electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world
Published on Tuesday, 29th August 2023.
Professor Chris Barratt discusses breaking new ground in male fertility research.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd August 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili hears how study of the past climate can help us understand our future.
Published on Tuesday, 15th August 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili speaks to Deborah Greaves about wave energy and her love of the sea
Published on Tuesday, 8th August 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili hears how light can be used to access the internet.
Published on Tuesday, 27th June 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili unravels the tangled chains of genetic (and epigenetic) inheritance.
Published on Tuesday, 20th June 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili speaks to Anne-Marie Imafidon about championing girls in STEM.
Published on Tuesday, 13th June 2023.
From landslides to tornadoes, Bruce Malamud talks modelling risk and multi-hazard cascades
Published on Tuesday, 6th June 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili hears how chemistry is connected to every part of our lives.
Published on Tuesday, 30th May 2023.
The Nobel prize-winning physicist talks about the world's strongest material, graphene.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd May 2023.
Julie Williams on the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease.
Published on Tuesday, 28th March 2023.
How studying processes that shape the planet’s surface can help us become more resilient.
Published on Tuesday, 21st March 2023.
Why subtle changes in how we act can radically change our lives and our health.
Published on Tuesday, 14th March 2023.
A metals-focused engineer's route from academia to industry to the House of Lords.
Published on Tuesday, 7th March 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili talks T cells, our immune response and Long Covid with Prof Danny Altmann.
Published on Tuesday, 28th February 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to astrophysicist Haley Gomez.
Published on Tuesday, 21st February 2023.
How a once-derided approach to statistics paved the way for AI.
Published on Tuesday, 7th February 2023.
Jim Al-Khalili hears about new approaches to quantum questions and using science in films.
Published on Tuesday, 31st January 2023.
How corpse-based beetles can answer long-standing questions about human evolution.
Published on Tuesday, 24th January 2023.
How new drug trials could mark a turning point in MND research.
Published on Tuesday, 17th January 2023.
How ‘fingerprinting’ technology could help prevent another horse meat scam.
Published on Tuesday, 10th January 2023.
Bambos Kyriacou tells Jim Al-Khalili why he studies the behaviour of fruit flies.
Published on Tuesday, 18th October 2022.
Leon Barron tells Jim Al-Khalili how he developed an intense interest in sewage.
Published on Tuesday, 11th October 2022.
Jim Al-Khalili meets Tim Lamont, a young ecologist making waves restoring coral reefs
Published on Tuesday, 4th October 2022.
Using AI to discover drugs. Daphne Koller tells Jim Al-Khalili about her life and work.
Published on Tuesday, 27th September 2022.
Why images are more powerful than words in shaping how we think and feel.
Published on Tuesday, 20th September 2022.
A geo-archaeologist digs down to enrich our knowledge of ancient Egypt and beyond.
Published on Wednesday, 14th September 2022.
Turning microbes into living factories.
Published on Tuesday, 6th September 2022.
Sir Martin Landray on how he discovered the drugs for Covid-19 with the RECOVERY Trial.
Published on Tuesday, 28th June 2022.
A self-confessed physics fundamentalist decodes reality.
Published on Tuesday, 21st June 2022.
When does a waggle dance become a tremble dance?
Published on Tuesday, 14th June 2022.
How does a person with anorexia nervosa think? Jacinta Tan talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 7th June 2022.
Restore peat bogs to mitigate climate change and improve bio-diversity.
Published on Tuesday, 31st May 2022.
Why politics needs more scientists and engineers.
Published on Tuesday, 24th May 2022.
From sewage treatment to Crossrail, engineer Ailie MacAdam talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 29th March 2022.
What can bones tell us about evolution, behaviour and extinction?
Published on Tuesday, 22nd March 2022.
How did mammals come to dominate our planet? Prof Steve Brusatte talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 15th March 2022.
The man who found a way to decode DNA at speed.
Published on Tuesday, 8th March 2022.
Can we trust our memories of events? Julia Shaw talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd February 2022.
Leading the UK's hunt for new and dangerous Covid-19 variants.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd November 2021.
What makes meerkats so cooperative and why do sons cost mothers more than daughters?
Published on Tuesday, 26th October 2021.
Professor Tim Spector on fuelling gut microbes for long term health.
Published on Tuesday, 19th October 2021.
Science and our future
Published on Tuesday, 12th October 2021.
Jim Al-Khalili and distinguished guests reflect on ten years of The Life Scientific.
Hannah Cloke talks to Jim Al-Khalili about predicting this summer's serious floods.
Published on Tuesday, 5th October 2021.
How does sleep change as we age? Derk-Jan Dijk talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 28th September 2021.
Can we achieve carbon net zero in our homes? Brenda Boardman talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 21st September 2021.
Can we create new senses? Prof David Eagleman talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 14th September 2021.
Why, in the Age of the Algorithm, humans have never been more important.
Published on Tuesday, 7th September 2021.
All climate change models are wrong. Tamsin Edwards tells Jim Al Khalili why.
Published on Tuesday, 1st June 2021.
Mike Tipton on cold water swimming.
Published on Tuesday, 25th May 2021.
Jim Al-Khalili asks Nira Chamberlain how he uses maths to solve real-world problems.
Published on Tuesday, 18th May 2021.
Fish watching and the downsides of deep sea mining. Helen Scales talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 11th May 2021.
Peter Goadsby on migraine attacks and the new treatments his research has inspired.
Published on Tuesday, 4th May 2021.
Jane Clarke unravels her discoveries into the molecular origami of our body's proteins.
Published on Tuesday, 27th April 2021.
How Martin Sweeting made a satellite on his kitchen table.
Published on Tuesday, 20th April 2021.
Prof Dame Theresa Marteau tells Jim Al-Khalili about her life and work.
Published on Tuesday, 13th April 2021.
Inside the mind of a forensic botanist, Mark Spencer.
Published on Tuesday, 9th March 2021.
Why did a rising star in the study of dark energy turn her attention to climate change?
Published on Tuesday, 2nd March 2021.
Why madness is in the world not in us. Prof Richard Bentall talks about his life and work.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd February 2021.
Jane Hurst reveals how mice are ruled by their noses.
Published on Tuesday, 16th February 2021.
From HIV to influenza and Covid-19, why prevention is better than cure.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd February 2021.
Giles Yeo reveals the role our genes play in the obesity epidemic.
Published on Tuesday, 26th January 2021.
How good ventilation dramatically reduces the risk of inhaling tiny airborne pathogens.
Published on Tuesday, 19th January 2021.
Geologist Chris Jackson on the earth's past, deep salt and abseiling into a volcano.
Published on Tuesday, 12th January 2021.
Jim Al-Khalili finds out how The Life Scientific has changed during the pandemic.
Published on Tuesday, 15th December 2020.
Predicting the spread of Covid-19. Neil Ferguson talks to Jim Al-Khalili about lockdown.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd September 2020.
How did Sarah Gilbert get so far, so fast in developing a vaccine for Covid-19?
Published on Tuesday, 15th September 2020.
Steve Haake talks to Jim al-Khalili about how technology improves sporting ability.
Published on Tuesday, 8th September 2020.
Francesca Happé talks to Jim al-Khalili about the abilities of people with autism.
Published on Tuesday, 1st September 2020.
Saving seahorses and turning old fishing nets into luxury carpets.
Published on Tuesday, 25th August 2020.
Why the world needs more plant scientists. Prof Dale Sanders talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 18th August 2020.
Professor Andy Fabian on supermassive black holes and their dramatic hold over galaxies.
Published on Tuesday, 11th August 2020.
What can we learn from human remains? Alice Roberts talks bones with Jim Al Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 4th August 2020.
How to stop peaceful protests turning into riots.
Published on Tuesday, 16th June 2020.
Professor Emma Bunce shares her passion for Jupiter and Neptune with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 9th June 2020.
Jane Goodall describes her life with the wild chimpanzees of Gombe.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd June 2020.
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to Liz Seward about designing spacecraft.
Published on Tuesday, 26th May 2020.
The impact of lockdown on the quality of the air we breathe.
Published on Tuesday, 19th May 2020.
Professor Debbie Pain talks to Jim Al-Khalili about conserving our endangered birdlife.
Published on Tuesday, 12th May 2020.
Is the National Grid fit for purpose? Jim McDonald talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 5th May 2020.
Is the universe really made of string? Physicist Brian Greene talks to Jim Al Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 28th April 2020.
The physicist behind net zero. Prof Myles Allen talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Wednesday, 4th March 2020.
What maggots teach us about our sense of smell. Prof Matthew Cobb tells Jim Al-Khalli
Published on Tuesday, 3rd March 2020.
Anya Hurlbert tells Jim Al-Khalili how colours are made in the mind.
Published on Monday, 2nd March 2020.
The invention of the optical fibres that makes ultra-fast broadband possible.
Published on Tuesday, 11th February 2020.
The 2019 Nobel Prize-winner Sir Peter Ratcliffe on living with low oxygen.
Published on Tuesday, 4th February 2020.
How Peter Fonagy changed the way we treat our mental health.
Published on Tuesday, 28th January 2020.
Susannah Maidment tells Jim how she came to be a world authority on stegosaurs
Published on Tuesday, 14th January 2020.
Using pollen to solve crimes. Prof Pat Wiltshire talks to Jim Al Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 7th January 2020.
Elizabeth Fisher on studying chromosomal abnormalities in mice and men
Published on Tuesday, 12th November 2019.
Demis Hassabis tells Jim Al-Khalili why he wants to create artificial intelligence.
Published on Tuesday, 5th November 2019.
Professor Saiful Islam on the materials that make renewable energy possible.
Published on Tuesday, 29th October 2019.
Adrian Owen tells Jim Al-Khalili about his search for awareness in brain-injured patients.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd October 2019.
Professor Martha Clokie on the viruses that destroy antibiotic-resistant bugs.
Published on Tuesday, 15th October 2019.
Professor Anne Magurran on how nature is going the same way as our high streets.
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2019.
How to spot a liar. Professor Richard Wiseman tells Jim Al-Khalili
Published on Tuesday, 1st October 2019.
Virologist Jonathan Ball talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his quest to disarm killer viruses.
Published on Tuesday, 30th July 2019.
Why do we have friends? Robin Dunbar tells Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd July 2019.
Lunar geologist Katherine Joy tells Jim Al-Khalili why we need to go back to the moon.
Published on Tuesday, 16th July 2019.
How geneticist Turi King identified the 500 yr old skeleton of Richard III.
Published on Tuesday, 9th July 2019.
Astrochemist Ewine van Dishoeck tells Jim Al-Khalili about the space between the stars.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd July 2019.
How Richard Thompson alerted the world to the micro-plastics in the ocean.
Published on Tuesday, 25th June 2019.
Dr Erica McAlister talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the beautiful world of flies.
Published on Tuesday, 16th April 2019.
Epidemiologist Richard Peto on the links between tobacco, disease and early death
Published on Tuesday, 9th April 2019.
Irene Tracey tells Jim Al-Khalili how imaging the brain reveals how and why we feel pain.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd April 2019.
Physicist Paul Davies on the origin of life, aliens and the evolution of cancer.
Published on Tuesday, 26th March 2019.
Professor Corinne Le Quéré talks to Jim Al-Khalili about tracing global carbon.
Published on Tuesday, 19th March 2019.
How working with robots in the 1980s kicked off a microelectronics revolution.
Published on Wednesday, 13th March 2019.
Donna Strickland, the first woman to win a Physics Nobel Prize in 55 years.
Published on Tuesday, 5th March 2019.
Gwen Adshead tells Jim Al-Khalili how she treats the minds of violent offenders.
Published on Tuesday, 26th February 2019.
Sir Gregory Winter, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Published on Tuesday, 19th February 2019.
Sue Black tells Jim Al-Khalili how she became a software engineer.
Published on Tuesday, 12th February 2019.
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili tells Adam Rutherford what motivates and inspires him.
Published on Tuesday, 5th February 2019.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Published on Wednesday, 19th December 2018.
Clive Oppenheimer on volcanoes that shake the world.
Published on Tuesday, 11th December 2018.
Sky at Night presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock talks to Jim Al-Khalili about astronomy.
Published on Tuesday, 4th December 2018.
Alastair Hay talks with Jim Al-Khalili about ridding the world of chemical weapons.
Published on Tuesday, 27th November 2018.
Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 20th November 2018.
Mike Stratton talks about searching for cancer genes with Jim al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 13th November 2018.
Detective of the mind Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan talks about brain seizures with Jim Al-Khalili
Published on Tuesday, 6th November 2018.
Supervet, Noel Fitzpatrick, talks to Jim Al-Khalili
Published on Tuesday, 30th October 2018.
Jacqueline McGlade on monitoring the environment from space.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd October 2018.
Rachel Mills on volcanoes under the sea and how metal deposits feed the oceans.
Published on Tuesday, 19th June 2018.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses quarks and popularising particle physics with Frank Close.
Published on Tuesday, 12th June 2018.
DIY Faecal Transplants? Don't do this at home, immunologist Sheena Cruickshank tells Jim.
Published on Tuesday, 5th June 2018.
John Taylor tells Jim Al-Khalili how his inventions transformed the electric kettle.
Published on Tuesday, 29th May 2018.
Jim Al-Khalili talks chimp gestures with Dr Cat Hobaiter.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd May 2018.
Professor Dame Caroline Dean on why some plants need cold before they can flower.
Published on Tuesday, 15th May 2018.
Carlo Rovelli describes how he abandoned the concept of time.
Published on Tuesday, 8th May 2018.
Callum Roberts on coral reefs and the urgent need for marine reserves.
Published on Tuesday, 1st May 2018.
Psychologist Stephen Reicher talks to Jim al-Khalili about how we behave in crowds.
Published on Tuesday, 13th March 2018.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Clare Grey about the batteries that could power our future.
Published on Tuesday, 6th March 2018.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses the genetics of cancer with Professor Sir John Burn.
Published on Tuesday, 20th February 2018.
2017 Nobel Prize-winner Richard Henderson on how he zoomed in on the molecules of life.
Published on Tuesday, 13th February 2018.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses the flu virus with Professor Wendy Barclay of Imperial College.
Published on Tuesday, 30th January 2018.
Jim talks to mathematician Eugenia Cheng about mathematics, music and baking.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd January 2018.
The computer that costs little more than a toasted sandwich.
Published on Tuesday, 16th January 2018.
Zoologist and inventor Adrian Thomas talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the mechanics of flight
Published on Tuesday, 31st October 2017.
Ellen Stofan, former chief scientist at NASA, talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 24th October 2017.
Sex, guillemots and the virtuoso finch.
Published on Tuesday, 17th October 2017.
Jim Al-Khalili asks Steve Cowley if we will ever have energy from nuclear fusion.
Published on Tuesday, 10th October 2017.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to astrophysicist Lucie Green about studying the sun.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd October 2017.
Singing leopard seals and other perils of research in Antarctica.
Published on Tuesday, 26th September 2017.
Jennifer Doudna talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her research that is transforming genetics.
Published on Tuesday, 19th September 2017.
Tamsin Mather explains what volcanic plumes tell us about our planet, past and present.
Published on Tuesday, 30th May 2017.
Jim Al-Khalili talks transient stars and music festivals with Tim O'Brien of Jodrell Bank.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd May 2017.
Ottoline Leyser talks to Jim Al-Khalili about how plants decide to grow the way they do.
Published on Tuesday, 16th May 2017.
Fay Dowker and Jim Al-Khalili discuss the texture of space-time.
Published on Tuesday, 9th May 2017.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Dr Ann Clarke about preserving global animal DNA in The Frozen Ark
Published on Tuesday, 2nd May 2017.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Graham MacGregor about his remarkable war on sugar and salt.
Published on Tuesday, 25th April 2017.
Jim Al-khalili talks to Professor Liz Sockett about the evil genius of predatory bacteria.
Published on Tuesday, 18th April 2017.
Nick Fraser tells Jim Al-Khalili about some extraordinary fossil finds.
Published on Tuesday, 11th April 2017.
Daniel Dennett talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the evolution of the human brain.
Published on Tuesday, 4th April 2017.
Geneticist Alison Wollard explains her enthusiasm for a tiny nematode worm.
Published on Tuesday, 28th February 2017.
Alan Winfield talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the ethics of robots, from drones to androids.
Published on Tuesday, 21st February 2017.
Simon Wessely on medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes.
Published on Tuesday, 14th February 2017.
Sean Carroll tells Jim why he abandoned Einstein for quantum entanglement.
Published on Tuesday, 7th February 2017.
Professor Alison Smith talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the many and varied uses of algae.
Published on Tuesday, 31st January 2017.
Sadaf Farooqi describes how she found ten rare genetic disorders that cause obesity.
Published on Tuesday, 24th January 2017.
Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the Anthropocene, the Age of Man.
Published on Tuesday, 17th January 2017.
Michele Dougherty tells Jim Al-Khalili why she diverted the Cassini mission to Saturn.
Published on Tuesday, 10th January 2017.
US science superstar, Neil de Grasse Tyson describes why Pluto isn't a planet.
Published on Tuesday, 20th December 2016.
Neuroscientist Richard Morris explains how brain cells remember.
Published on Tuesday, 6th December 2016.
Professor Dame Julia Higgins shares her passion for polymers with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 29th November 2016.
Sir Roger Penrose talks to Jim Al-Khalili about black holes and flaws in quantum physics.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd November 2016.
Lynne Boddy enthuses about fungi.
Published on Tuesday, 15th November 2016.
Jim Al-Khalili talks cloning with the creator of Dolly the sheep, Ian Wilmut.
Published on Tuesday, 11th October 2016.
Frans de Waal tells Jim Al-Khalili why we should expect chimpanzees to be clever.
Published on Tuesday, 4th October 2016.
Acoustic engineer Trevor Cox discusses the science of sound with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 19th July 2016.
Georgina Mace talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her Red List of Threatened Species.
Published on Tuesday, 12th July 2016.
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem talks to Jim Al-Khalili about how memories are made.
Published on Tuesday, 5th July 2016.
Hazel Rymer talks volcanoes with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Monday, 27th June 2016.
The battle between cuckoos and warblers, as told by Nick Davies to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 21st June 2016.
Sheila Rowan talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her role in the search for gravitational waves.
Published on Tuesday, 14th June 2016.
Marcus Du Sautoy shares his passion for mathematics with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 7th June 2016.
Author and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss discusses dark energy with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 31st May 2016.
Environmental scientist Carolyn Roberts talks to Jim al-Khalili about floods and forensics
Published on Tuesday, 22nd March 2016.
Helen Sharman talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the ups and downs of being in space.
Published on Tuesday, 15th March 2016.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Nobel Prize-winner Venki Ramakrishnan.
Published on Tuesday, 8th March 2016.
Epidemiologist Prof George Davey-Smith talks to Jim Al-Khalili about health inequalities.
Published on Tuesday, 1st March 2016.
Dr Nick Lane of UCL talks about studying the origin of life on earth with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd February 2016.
Naomi Climer tells Jim Al-Khalili why engineers should be as famous as rock stars.
Published on Tuesday, 16th February 2016.
Peter Piot talks to Jim Al-Khalili about Zika, Ebola and HIV.
Published on Tuesday, 9th February 2016.
Professor Paul Younger talks to Jim Al-Khalili about keeping the lights on in the future.
Published on Tuesday, 17th November 2015.
Kathy Willis, Kew Gardens' director of science, discusses biodiversity with Jim Al-Khalili
Published on Tuesday, 10th November 2015.
Jim Al-Khalili meets Patrick Vallance heading drug development at a pharmaceutical company
Published on Tuesday, 3rd November 2015.
Professor Robert Plomin talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the genetics of intelligence.
Published on Tuesday, 20th October 2015.
Engineer Danielle George tells Jim about her passion for getting children into electronics
Published on Tuesday, 13th October 2015.
Expert health advisor and professor of medicine Carol Black talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 6th October 2015.
Jim talks to internationally renowned professor of brewing and distilling Geoff Palmer.
Published on Tuesday, 4th August 2015.
Leading biologist EO Wilson talks to Jim Al-Khalili about ants, altruism and evolution.
Published on Tuesday, 28th July 2015.
Forensic chemist Niamh Nic Daeid talks about investigating fires and analysing legal highs
Published on Tuesday, 21st July 2015.
Carlos Frenk talks to Jim Al-Khalili about dark matter and modelling the cosmos.
Published on Tuesday, 14th July 2015.
Why do some children find language difficult? Dorothy Bishop talks about her life's work.
Published on Tuesday, 7th July 2015.
Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh talks to Jim Al-Khalili about slicing through our thoughts.
Published on Tuesday, 30th June 2015.
From bats to biodiversity, ecologist Kate Jones discusses her Life Scientific.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd June 2015.
Anil Seth discusses the hard problem of understanding consciousness with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 16th June 2015.
Obesity expert Susan Jebb talks to Jim al-Khalili about the science of what we eat.
Published on Tuesday, 21st April 2015.
Sir Nigel Shadbolt talks about artificial intelligence and open data with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 14th April 2015.
Software pioneer Dame Stephanie Shirley talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 7th April 2015.
The director of the British Antarctic Survey, Jane Francis talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 31st March 2015.
Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her research on the teenage brain
Published on Tuesday, 24th March 2015.
Matt Taylor talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the Rosetta comet mission.
Published on Tuesday, 17th March 2015.
2014 Nobel Prize-winner John O'Keefe talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 10th March 2015.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Dave Goulson about his obsession with bees.
Published on Tuesday, 11th November 2014.
Jim al-Khalili talks to Dame Sally Davies about looking after the nation's health.
Published on Tuesday, 4th November 2014.
Jim Al-Khalili meets Mr Trilobite, the palaeontologist and naturalist Richard Fortey.
Published on Tuesday, 28th October 2014.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Maggie Boden, a world authority in the field of AI.
Published on Tuesday, 21st October 2014.
Chris Toumazou talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the science of invention.
Published on Tuesday, 14th October 2014.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Oxford crystallographer Elspeth Garman.
Published on Tuesday, 7th October 2014.
Jackie Akhavan talks about the ethical issues of working on explosives used in war.
Published on Tuesday, 30th September 2014.
Brian Cox, physicist and media star, talks fame and quantum mechanics with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd September 2014.
Carol Robinson on her journey from lab technician to professor of chemistry.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd July 2014.
Jim Al-Khalili in conversation with Dr Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust.
Published on Tuesday, 15th July 2014.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses earthquakes and fracking for gas with geologist Zoe Shipton.
Published on Tuesday, 8th July 2014.
Chris Llewellyn Smith on quarks, bosons and running the biggest experiments in history.
Published on Tuesday, 1st July 2014.
Botanist Sandy Knapp talks about her adventures collecting plants in South America.
Published on Tuesday, 24th June 2014.
Chris Lintott tells Jim Al Khalili about crowd sourced astronomy and Galaxy Zoo.
Published on Tuesday, 17th June 2014.
Janet Hemingway on malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance, with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 10th June 2014.
Jim Al-Khalili meets child psychiatrist Prof Sir Michael Rutter.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd June 2014.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Dame Julia Slingo, the chief scientist at the Met Office.
Published on Tuesday, 8th April 2014.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Veronica van Heyningen about the gene that builds the eye.
Published on Tuesday, 1st April 2014.
Alf Adams remembers his small idea that changed the world, with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 25th March 2014.
Anne Glover talks to Jim Al-Khalili about glow-in-the-dark bacteria and advising ministers
Published on Tuesday, 18th March 2014.
Mark Miodownik talks nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 11th March 2014.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses global mental health with psychiatrist Prof Vikram Patel.
Published on Tuesday, 4th March 2014.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to forensic scientist Sue Black about identifying human bodies.
Published on Tuesday, 25th February 2014.
Peter Higgs opens up to Jim Al-Khalili about the real story of the Higgs boson.
Published on Tuesday, 18th February 2014.
Jim Al Khalili discusses the development of the web with Prof Wendy Hall.
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili talks kangaroos and the death of the Y chromosome with Prof Jenny Graves.
Published on Tuesday, 1st October 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Sophie Scott about the science of laughter.
Published on Tuesday, 24th September 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses sci-fi and popularising maths with Prof Ian Stewart.
Published on Tuesday, 17th September 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses digging up dinosaurs in remote places with Prof Mike Benton.
Published on Tuesday, 10th September 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses medical imaging and mountain climbing with Prof Mark Lythgoe.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd September 2013.
Joanna Haigh, professor of physics at Imperial College, talks climate with Jim Al-Khalili.
Published on Tuesday, 27th August 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to zoologist Russell Foster about circadian rhythms and jet lag.
Published on Tuesday, 20th August 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Elizabeth Stokoe about studying real-life conversations.
Published on Tuesday, 25th June 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili talks risk and uncertainty with Prof David Spiegelhalter.
Published on Tuesday, 18th June 2013.
Ewan Birney talks to Jim Al-Khalili about deciphering the human genome and junk DNA.
Published on Tuesday, 11th June 2013.
Prof Dame Athene Donald talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the physics behind everyday stuff.
Published on Tuesday, 4th June 2013.
The science of longevity - Jim Al-Khalili chats to geneticist Prof Dame Linda Partridge.
Published on Tuesday, 28th May 2013.
Lord John Krebs talks to Jim al-Khalili about birds, foot and mouth disease and badgers.
Published on Tuesday, 21st May 2013.
What links the English Channel to valleys on Mars? Jim talks to geologist Sanjeev Gupta.
Published on Tuesday, 14th May 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili in conversation with the neuroscientist Prof Dame Nancy Rothwell.
Published on Tuesday, 7th May 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Sue Ion about working in the nuclear industry post-Chernobyl.
Published on Tuesday, 26th February 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Alan Watson about his quest to discover the source of cosmic rays.
Published on Tuesday, 19th February 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to breast cancer pioneer Valerie Beral.
Published on Tuesday, 5th February 2013.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to roboticist and psychologist, Noel Sharkey.
Published on Tuesday, 29th January 2013.
Should babies under two watch TV? Jim talks to psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith.
Published on Monday, 21st January 2013.
Robert Mair talks about tunnelling under Big Ben, Crossrail and engineering for the future
Published on Tuesday, 15th January 2013.
Amoret Whitaker talks about insects and their role in helping solve crimes.
Published on Tuesday, 8th January 2013.
2012 Nobel Prize winner John Gurdon on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep.
Published on Tuesday, 18th December 2012.
Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea.
Published on Tuesday, 4th December 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili and Prof Monica Grady weigh up the evidence for life on Mars.
Published on Tuesday, 16th October 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili interviews Professor Hugh Montgomery about the gene for fitness.
Published on Tuesday, 9th October 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to the next government chief scientific advisor, Sir Mark Walport.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd October 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili meets Prof Sunetra Gupta, a scientist and novelist.
Published on Tuesday, 25th September 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili interviews Prof David Nutt about research into drugs and the brain.
Published on Tuesday, 18th September 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili discovers why Andrea Sella's chemistry demonstrations are filling theatres.
Published on Tuesday, 11th September 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili meets evolutionary biologist and author Prof Richard Dawkins.
Published on Tuesday, 4th September 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses silent aircraft with Cambridge engineer, Dame Ann Dowling.
Published on Tuesday, 28th August 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili goes under the Antarctic ice with glaciologist Martin Siegert.
Published on Tuesday, 21st August 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Pat Wolseley talks about her obsession with lichen.
Published on Tuesday, 14th August 2012.
Geneticist Steve Jones lives life in the slow lane, studying snails.
Published on Tuesday, 7th August 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili meets John Pickett, whose recent work on GM wheat caused a public debate.
Published on Tuesday, 12th June 2012.
Jim al-Khalili talks to the former chief scientific advisor Robert May about public trust.
Published on Tuesday, 5th June 2012.
Jim meets neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian to discuss her work with Alzheimer's disease.
Published on Tuesday, 29th May 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd May 2012.
Frances Ashcroft on a lifetime spent studying the link between blood sugar and insulin.
Published on Tuesday, 15th May 2012.
James Lovelock on elocution lessons, defrosting hamsters and Gaia.
Published on Tuesday, 8th May 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to the forensic scientist Angela Gallop.
Published on Tuesday, 27th March 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to physicist Tejinder Virdee about the search for the Higgs boson.
Published on Tuesday, 20th March 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to ecologist John Lawton.
Published on Tuesday, 13th March 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili enters the multiverse with the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees.
Published on Tuesday, 6th March 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to pioneering health services researcher, Iain Chalmers.
Published on Tuesday, 28th February 2012.
What is the future of nanotechnology? Chemist Tony Ryan shows some of its surprising uses.
Published on Tuesday, 21st February 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili meets paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer to find who our ancestors were.
Published on Tuesday, 14th February 2012.
Psychiatrist Robin Murray on why he has changed his mind about the cause of schizophrenia.
Published on Tuesday, 7th February 2012.
Prof Jim Al-Khalili talks to planetary scientist Colin Pillinger about life on Mars.
Published on Tuesday, 27th December 2011.
Lord Robert Winston on IVF, the House of Lords and scientists' ethical responsibilty.
Published on Tuesday, 20th December 2011.
Prof Jim al-Khalili talks to Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Sir Tim Hunt.
Published on Tuesday, 13th December 2011.
Jim meets psychologist Prof Uta Frith, whose work changed how we view brain disorders.
Published on Tuesday, 6th December 2011.
Jim al-Khalili talks to biologist John Sulston.
Published on Tuesday, 29th November 2011.
Nicky Clayton talks to Prof Jim Al-Khalili about her work on the intelligence of birds.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd November 2011.
Jim al-Khalili talks to a scientist who grows human bones in a test tube, Molly Stevens.
Published on Tuesday, 15th November 2011.
Neuroscientist Colin Blakemore talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his life and work.
Published on Tuesday, 8th November 2011.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Sir Michael Marmot about his work on how stress kills.
Published on Tuesday, 1st November 2011.
Inside the mind of science writer and cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker.
Published on Tuesday, 18th October 2011.
Jim meets Paul Nurse, Nobel prize-winning geneticist and President of the Royal Society.
Published on Tuesday, 11th October 2011.
