The Life Scientific
By BBC Radio 4
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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
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Mike Edmunds on decoding galaxies and ancient astronomical artefacts
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Hannah Critchlow on the connected brain
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Fiona Rayment on the applications of nuclear for net zero and beyond
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Nick Longrich on discovering new dinosaurs from overlooked bones
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Sheila Willis on using science to help solve crime
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Sir Charles Godfray on parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Jonathan Van-Tam on Covid communication and the power of football analogies
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Sir Harry Bhadeshia on the choreography of metals
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Cathie Sudlow on data in healthcare
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Sir Michael Berry on phenomena in physics' borderlands
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Professor Sarah Harper on how population change is remodelling societies.
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on human evolution and parenthood
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Edward Witten on 'the theory of everything'
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Alex Antonelli on learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate change
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Paul Murdin on the first ever identification of a black hole
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Bahija Jallal on the biotech revolution in cancer therapies
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Sir Colin Humphreys on electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Chris Barratt on head-banging sperm and a future male contraceptive pill
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Gideon Henderson on climate ‘clocks’ and dating ice ages
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Deborah Greaves on wave power and offshore renewable energy
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Harald Haas on making waves in light communication
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Anne Ferguson-Smith on unravelling epigenetics
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Anne-Marie Imafidon on fighting for diversity and equality in science
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Bruce Malamud on modelling risk for natural hazards
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Gillian Reid on making chemistry count
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May 30, 2023 |
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Andre Geim on levitating frogs, graphene and 2D materials
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May 23, 2023 |
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Julie Williams on Alzheimer’s disease
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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James Jackson on understanding earthquakes and building resilience
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Marie Johnston on health psychology and the power of behavioural shifts
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Julia King on manipulating metals and decarbonising transport
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Danny Altmann on how T cells fight disease
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Haley Gomez on cosmic dust
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Adrian Smith on the power of Bayesian statistics
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Clifford Johnson on making sense of black holes and movie plots
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Rebecca Kilner on beetle behaviours and evolution
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Pam Shaw on the research battle against motor neurone disease
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Chris Elliott on fighting food fraud
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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A passion for fruit flies
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Why study sewage?
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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The sounds of coral reefs
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Can computers discover new medicines?
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Emily Holmes on how to treat trauma
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Judith Bunbury on the shifting River Nile in the time of the Pharaohs
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Sir Martin Landray on saving over a million lives
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Vlatko Vedral on the universe as quantum information
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Adam Hart on ants, bees and insect burgers
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Jacinta Tan on anorexia nervosa and the mind
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Pete Smith on why soil matters
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May 31, 2022 |
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Chi Onwurah on why engineering is a caring profession.
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May 24, 2022 |
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Ailie MacAdam on the biggest construction project in Europe
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Ben Garrod on conservation and extinction
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Julia Shaw on memories that aren't true
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Sharon Peacock on hunting pandemic variants of concern
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Tim Clutton-Brock on meerkats, red deer and evolution
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Tim Spector and personalised diets for long term health
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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The Patrick Vallance Interview
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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The Life Scientific at 10: What makes a scientist?
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Hannah Cloke and predicting floods
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Derk-Jan Dijk on the importance of sleep
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Brenda Boardman on making our homes energy efficient.
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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David Eagleman on why reality is an illusion
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Hannah Fry on the power and perils of big data
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Tamsin Edwards on the uncertainty in climate science
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Mike Tipton on how our bodies respond to extreme conditions
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May 25, 2021 |
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Nira Chamberlain on how mathematics can solve real-world problems
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May 18, 2021 |
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Helen Scales on marine conservation
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May 11, 2021 |
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Peter Goadsby on migraine
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May 04, 2021 |
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Jane Clarke on Protein Folding
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Professor Martin Sweeting, inventor of microsatellites
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Theresa Marteau on how to change behaviour
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Mark Spencer on how plants solve crimes
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Sarah Bridle on the carbon footprint of food
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Richard Bentall on the causes of mental ill health
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Jane Hurst on the secret life of mice
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Anne Johnson on the importance of public health
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Giles Yeo on how our genes can make us fat
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Cath Noakes on making buildings Covid-safe
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Chris Jackson on sustainable geology
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Scientists in the Spotlight during the Pandemic
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Neil Ferguson on modelling Covid-19
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Sarah Gilbert on developing a vaccine for Covid-19
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Steve Haake on technology, sport and health
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Francesca Happé on autism
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Heather Koldewey on marine conservation
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Dale Sanders on feeding the world
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Andy Fabian on black holes
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Alice Roberts on bones
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Clifford Stott on riot prevention
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Emma Bunce on the gas giants
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Jane Goodall on living with wild chimpanzees
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Liz Seward and the dream of spaceflight
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May 26, 2020 |
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Frank Kelly on air pollution
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May 19, 2020 |
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Debbie Pain on conserving globally threatened bird species
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May 12, 2020 |
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Jim McDonald on power networks
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May 05, 2020 |
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Brian Greene on how the universe is made of string
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Myles Allen on understanding climate change
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Matthew Cobb on how we detect smells
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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Anya Hurlbert on seeing colour
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Optical communications pioneer Polina Bayvel
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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2019 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, Sir Peter Ratcliffe
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Peter Fonagy on a revolution in mental health care
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Susannah Maidment on stegosaurs
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Patricia Wiltshire on how pollen can solve crimes.
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Elizabeth Fisher on chromosomes in mice and men
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Saiful Islam on materials to power the 21st century
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Adrian Owen on scanning for awareness in the injured brain
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Martha Clokie on the viruses that could improve our health
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Anne Magurran on how to measure biodiversity
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Richard Wiseman on lying, luck and the paranormal
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Jonathan Ball on his arms race against viruses
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Robin Dunbar on why we have friends
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Katherine Joy on moon rock
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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DNA detective Turi King
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Ewine van Dishoeck on cosmic chemistry
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Plastic pollution with Richard Thompson
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Erica McAlister on the beauty of flies
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Richard Peto on why smoking kills but quitting saves lives
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Irene Tracey on pain in the brain
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Paul Davies on the origin of life and the evolution of cancer
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Corinne Le Quéré on the global carbon cycle
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Ken Gabriel, Why your Smartphone is Smart.
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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2018 Nobel Prize winner, Donna Strickland, on laser physics
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Gwen Adshead on treating the minds of violent offenders
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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2018 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner, Sir Gregory Winter
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Sue Black on women in tech
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Jim Al-Khalili on HIS life scientific
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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Clive Oppenheimer on the volcanic offerings of our angry earth
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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Sky at Night presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Banning chemical weapons with Alastair Hay
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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Mike Stratton and cancer genes
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Detective of the mind Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Noel Fitzpatrick on becoming a supervet
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Jacqueline McGlade on monitoring the environment from space
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Rachel Mills exploring the sea floor
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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Frank Close and particle physics
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Sheena Cruickshank on the wonders of the human immune system
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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John Taylor on being an inventor
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May 29, 2018 |
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Cat Hobaiter on communication in apes
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May 22, 2018 |
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Caroline Dean reveals the genetic secrets of flowering
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May 15, 2018 |
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Carlo Rovelli on why time is not what it seems
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May 08, 2018 |
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Callum Roberts on the urgent need for marine conservation
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May 01, 2018 |
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Stephen Reicher on the psychology of crowds
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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Clare Grey on the Big Battery Challenge
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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John Burn and the genetics of cancer
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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Richard Henderson zooms in on the molecules of life
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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Wendy Barclay and the flu virus
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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Eugenia Cheng on the mathematics of mathematics
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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Eben Upton on Raspberry Pi
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Adrian Thomas on the mechanics of flight
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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Ellen Stofan on being NASA chief scientist
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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Tim Birkhead on bird promiscuity
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Steve Cowley on Nuclear Fusion
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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Lucie Green on the sun
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Tracey Rogers on leopard seals and Antarctica
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Jennifer Doudna
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Tamsin Mather on what volcanic plumes reveal about our planet
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May 30, 2017 |
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Tim O'Brien on transient stars and science and music festivals
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May 23, 2017 |
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Ottoline Leyser on how plants decide what to do
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May 16, 2017 |
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Fay Dowker on a new theory of space-time
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May 09, 2017 |
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Ann Clarke on The Frozen Ark
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May 02, 2017 |
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Graham MacGregor on tackling the demons in our diet
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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Liz Sockett on friendly killer bacteria
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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Nick Fraser on Triassic reptiles
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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Daniel Dennett on the evolution of the human brain
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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Alison Woollard on what she has learnt from mutant worms
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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Alan Winfield on robot ethics
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Feb 21, 2017 |
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Simon Wessely on unexplained medical syndromes
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Feb 14, 2017 |
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Sean Carroll on how time and space began
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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Alison Smith on algae
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Jan 31, 2017 |
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Sadaf Farooqi on what makes us fat
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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Jan Zalasiewicz on the Age of Man
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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Michele Dougherty on Saturn
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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Neil de Grasse Tyson on Pluto
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Dec 20, 2016 |
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Richard Morris on how we know where we are
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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Julia Higgins on polymers
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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Roger Penrose on black holes
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Nov 22, 2016 |
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Lynne Boddy on Fungi
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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Ian Wilmut on Dolly the sheep
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Oct 11, 2016 |
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Frans de Waal on chimpanzees
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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Trevor Cox on sound
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Jul 19, 2016 |
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Georgina Mace on threatened species
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Jul 12, 2016 |
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Faraneh Vargha-Khadem on memory
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Jul 05, 2016 |
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Hazel Rymer on volcanoes
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Jun 27, 2016 |
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Nick Davies on cuckoos
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Jun 21, 2016 |
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Sheila Rowan on gravitational waves
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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Marcus du Sautoy on mathematics
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Jun 07, 2016 |
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Lawrence Krauss on dark energy
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May 31, 2016 |
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Carolyn Roberts on flood control
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Mar 22, 2016 |
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Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut (2016)
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Mar 15, 2016 |
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Venki Ramakrishnan on ribosomes
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Mar 08, 2016 |
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George Davey-Smith on health inequalities
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Mar 01, 2016 |
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Dr Nick Lane on the origin of life on earth
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Feb 23, 2016 |
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Naomi Climer on engineering
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Feb 16, 2016 |
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Peter Piot on tackling ebola and HIV
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Feb 09, 2016 |
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Paul Younger on energy for the future
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Nov 17, 2015 |
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Kathy Willis on botany
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Nov 10, 2015 |
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Patrick Vallance on pharmaceuticals
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Nov 03, 2015 |
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Robert Plomin on the genetics of intelligence
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Oct 20, 2015 |
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Danielle George on electronics
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Oct 13, 2015 |
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Dame Carol Black on public health
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Oct 06, 2015 |
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Geoff Palmer on brewing
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Aug 04, 2015 |
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EO Wilson on ants and evolution
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Jul 28, 2015 |
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Niamh Nic Daeid on forensic science
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Jul 21, 2015 |
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Carlos Frenk on dark matter
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Jul 14, 2015 |
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Dorothy Bishop on language disorders
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Jul 07, 2015 |
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Henry Marsh on brain surgery
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Kate Jones on bats and biodiversity
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Jun 23, 2015 |
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Anil Seth on consciousness
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Jun 16, 2015 |
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Susan Jebb on nutrition
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Apr 21, 2015 |
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Nigel Shadbolt on the worldwide web
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Apr 14, 2015 |
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Stephanie Shirley on computer coding
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Apr 07, 2015 |
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Jane Francis on Antarctica
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Mar 31, 2015 |
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains
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Mar 24, 2015 |
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Matt Taylor on the Rosetta space mission
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Mar 17, 2015 |
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John O'Keefe on memory
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Mar 10, 2015 |
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Dave Goulson on bees
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Nov 11, 2014 |
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Dame Sally Davies on public health
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Nov 04, 2014 |
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Richard Fortey on fossils
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Oct 28, 2014 |
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Margaret Boden on artificial intelligence
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Oct 21, 2014 |
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Chris Toumazou on inventing medical devices
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Oct 14, 2014 |
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Elspeth Garman on crystallography
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Oct 07, 2014 |
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Jackie Akhavan on explosives
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Sep 30, 2014 |
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Brian Cox on quantum mechanics
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Sep 23, 2014 |
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Carol Robinson on chemistry
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Jul 22, 2014 |
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Jeremy Farrar on fighting viruses
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Jul 15, 2014 |
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Zoe Shipton on fracking
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Jul 08, 2014 |
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Chris Llewellyn Smith on nuclear fusion
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Jul 01, 2014 |
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Sandy Knapp
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Jun 24, 2014 |
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Chris Lintott
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Jun 17, 2014 |
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Janet Hemingway
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Jun 10, 2014 |
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Professor Sir Michael Rutter
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Jun 03, 2014 |
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Julia Slingo
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Apr 08, 2014 |
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Veronica van Heyningen
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Apr 01, 2014 |
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Alf Adams
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Mar 25, 2014 |
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Anne Glover
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Mar 18, 2014 |
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Mark Miodownik
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Mar 11, 2014 |
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Vikram Patel
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Mar 04, 2014 |
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Sue Black
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Feb 25, 2014 |
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Peter Higgs
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Feb 18, 2014 |
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Wendy Hall
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Oct 08, 2013 |
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Jenny Graves
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Oct 01, 2013 |
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Sophie Scott
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Sep 24, 2013 |
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Ian Stewart
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Sep 17, 2013 |
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Mike Benton
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Sep 10, 2013 |
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Mark Lythgoe
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Sep 03, 2013 |
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Joanna Haigh
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Aug 27, 2013 |
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Russell Foster
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Aug 20, 2013 |
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Elizabeth Stokoe
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Jun 25, 2013 |
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David Spiegelhalter
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Jun 18, 2013 |
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Ewan Birney
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Jun 11, 2013 |
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Athene Donald
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Jun 04, 2013 |
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Linda Partridge
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May 28, 2013 |
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Lord John Krebs
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May 21, 2013 |
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Sanjeev Gupta
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May 14, 2013 |
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Nancy Rothwell
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May 07, 2013 |
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Sue Ion
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Feb 26, 2013 |
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Alan Watson
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Feb 19, 2013 |
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Valerie Beral
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Feb 05, 2013 |
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Noel Sharkey
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Jan 29, 2013 |
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Annette Karmiloff-Smith
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Jan 21, 2013 |
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Prof Robert Mair
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Jan 15, 2013 |
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Amoret Whitaker
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Jan 08, 2013 |
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John Gurdon
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Dec 18, 2012 |
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Jared Diamond
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Dec 04, 2012 |
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Monica Grady
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Oct 16, 2012 |
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Hugh Montgomery
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Oct 09, 2012 |
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Sir Mark Walport
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Oct 02, 2012 |
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Sunetra Gupta
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Sep 25, 2012 |
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David Nutt
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Sep 18, 2012 |
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Andrea Sella
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Sep 11, 2012 |
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Richard Dawkins
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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Dame Ann Dowling
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Aug 28, 2012 |
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Martin Siegert
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Aug 21, 2012 |
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Pat Wolseley
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Aug 14, 2012 |
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Steve Jones
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Aug 07, 2012 |
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John Pickett
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Jun 12, 2012 |
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Robert May
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Jun 05, 2012 |
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Barbara Sahakian
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May 29, 2012 |
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Lloyd Peck
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May 22, 2012 |
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Frances Ashcroft
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May 15, 2012 |
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James Lovelock
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May 08, 2012 |
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Angela Gallop
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Mar 27, 2012 |
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Tejinder Virdee
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Mar 20, 2012 |
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John Lawton
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Mar 13, 2012 |
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Martin Rees
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Mar 06, 2012 |
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Iain Chalmers
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Feb 28, 2012 |
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Tony Ryan
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Feb 21, 2012 |
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Chris Stringer
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Feb 14, 2012 |
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Robin Murray
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Feb 07, 2012 |
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Colin Pillinger
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Dec 27, 2011 |
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Lord Robert Winston
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Dec 20, 2011 |
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Tim Hunt
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Dec 13, 2011 |
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Uta Frith
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Dec 06, 2011 |
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John Sulston
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Nov 29, 2011 |
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Nicky Clayton
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Nov 22, 2011 |
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Molly Stevens
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Nov 15, 2011 |
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Colin Blakemore
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Nov 08, 2011 |
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Sir Michael Marmot
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Nov 01, 2011 |
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Steven Pinker
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Oct 18, 2011 |
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Paul Nurse
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Oct 11, 2011 |