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Jan 7, 2020
Fascinating interviewees, great interviewer.
Mar 25, 2019
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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Anna Korre on capturing carbon dioxide and defying expectations
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Sep 24, 2024 |
Rosalie David on the science of Egyptian mummies
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Sep 17, 2024 |
Peter Stott on climate change deniers and Italian inspiration
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Sep 10, 2024 |
Ijeoma Uchegbu on using nanoparticles to transform medicines
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Sep 03, 2024 |
Darren Croft on killer whale matriarchs and the menopause
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Aug 27, 2024 |
Bill Gates on vaccines, conspiracy theories and the pleasures of pickleball
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Aug 20, 2024 |
Kip Thorne on black holes, Nobel Prizes and taking physics to Hollywood
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Aug 06, 2024 |
Vicky Tolfrey on parasport research and childhood dreams of the Olympics
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Jul 30, 2024 |
Dawn Bonfield on inclusive engineering, sustainable solutions and why she once tried to leave the sector for good
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Jul 23, 2024 |
Raymond Schinazi on revolutionising treatments for killer viruses
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Jul 16, 2024 |
Janet Treasure on eating disorders and the quest for answers
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Jul 09, 2024 |
Anne Child on Marfan syndrome and love at first sight
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Jul 02, 2024 |
Conny Aerts on star vibrations and following your dreams
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Jun 25, 2024 |
Mike Edmunds on decoding galaxies and ancient astronomical artefacts
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Apr 23, 2024 |
Hannah Critchlow on the connected brain
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Apr 16, 2024 |
Fiona Rayment on the applications of nuclear for net zero and beyond
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Apr 09, 2024 |
Nick Longrich on discovering new dinosaurs from overlooked bones
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Apr 02, 2024 |
Sheila Willis on using science to help solve crime
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Mar 27, 2024 |
Sir Charles Godfray on parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people
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Mar 19, 2024 |
Jonathan Van-Tam on Covid communication and the power of football analogies
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Mar 12, 2024 |
Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots
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Dec 19, 2023 |
Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful
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Dec 12, 2023 |
Sir Harry Bhadeshia on the choreography of metals
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Dec 05, 2023 |
Cathie Sudlow on data in healthcare
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Nov 28, 2023 |
Sir Michael Berry on phenomena in physics' borderlands
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Nov 21, 2023 |
Professor Sarah Harper on how population change is remodelling societies.
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Nov 14, 2023 |
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on human evolution and parenthood
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Nov 07, 2023 |
Edward Witten on 'the theory of everything'
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Oct 31, 2023 |
Alex Antonelli on learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate change
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Sep 19, 2023 |
Paul Murdin on the first ever identification of a black hole
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Sep 12, 2023 |
Bahija Jallal on the biotech revolution in cancer therapies
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Sep 05, 2023 |
Sir Colin Humphreys on electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world
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Aug 29, 2023 |
Chris Barratt on head-banging sperm and a future male contraceptive pill
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Aug 22, 2023 |
Gideon Henderson on climate ‘clocks’ and dating ice ages
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Aug 15, 2023 |
Deborah Greaves on wave power and offshore renewable energy
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Aug 08, 2023 |
Harald Haas on making waves in light communication
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Jun 27, 2023 |
Anne Ferguson-Smith on unravelling epigenetics
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Jun 20, 2023 |
Anne-Marie Imafidon on fighting for diversity and equality in science
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Jun 13, 2023 |
Bruce Malamud on modelling risk for natural hazards
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Jun 06, 2023 |
Gillian Reid on making chemistry count
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May 30, 2023 |
Andre Geim on levitating frogs, graphene and 2D materials
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May 23, 2023 |
Julie Williams on Alzheimer’s disease
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Mar 28, 2023 |
James Jackson on understanding earthquakes and building resilience
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Mar 21, 2023 |
Marie Johnston on health psychology and the power of behavioural shifts
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Mar 14, 2023 |
Julia King on manipulating metals and decarbonising transport
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Mar 07, 2023 |
Danny Altmann on how T cells fight disease
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Feb 28, 2023 |
Haley Gomez on cosmic dust
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Feb 21, 2023 |
Adrian Smith on the power of Bayesian statistics
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Feb 07, 2023 |
Clifford Johnson on making sense of black holes and movie plots
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Jan 31, 2023 |
Rebecca Kilner on beetle behaviours and evolution
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Jan 24, 2023 |
Pam Shaw on the research battle against motor neurone disease
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Jan 17, 2023 |
Chris Elliott on fighting food fraud
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Jan 10, 2023 |
A passion for fruit flies
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Oct 18, 2022 |
Why study sewage?
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Oct 11, 2022 |
The sounds of coral reefs
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Oct 04, 2022 |
Can computers discover new medicines?
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Sep 27, 2022 |
Emily Holmes on how to treat trauma
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Sep 20, 2022 |
Judith Bunbury on the shifting River Nile in the time of the Pharaohs
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Sep 14, 2022 |
Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize
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Sep 06, 2022 |
Sir Martin Landray on saving over a million lives
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Jun 28, 2022 |
Vlatko Vedral on the universe as quantum information
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Jun 21, 2022 |
Adam Hart on ants, bees and insect burgers
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Jun 14, 2022 |
Jacinta Tan on anorexia nervosa and the mind
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Jun 07, 2022 |
Pete Smith on why soil matters
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May 31, 2022 |
Chi Onwurah on why engineering is a caring profession.
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May 24, 2022 |
Ailie MacAdam on the biggest construction project in Europe
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Mar 29, 2022 |
Ben Garrod on conservation and extinction
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Mar 22, 2022 |
Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals
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Mar 15, 2022 |
Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA
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Mar 08, 2022 |
Julia Shaw on memories that aren't true
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Feb 22, 2022 |
Sharon Peacock on hunting pandemic variants of concern
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Tim Clutton-Brock on meerkats, red deer and evolution
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Oct 26, 2021 |
Tim Spector and personalised diets for long term health
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Oct 19, 2021 |
The Patrick Vallance Interview
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Oct 12, 2021 |
The Life Scientific at 10: What makes a scientist?
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Oct 12, 2021 |
Hannah Cloke and predicting floods
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Oct 05, 2021 |
Derk-Jan Dijk on the importance of sleep
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Sep 28, 2021 |
Brenda Boardman on making our homes energy efficient.
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Sep 21, 2021 |
David Eagleman on why reality is an illusion
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Sep 14, 2021 |
Hannah Fry on the power and perils of big data
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Sep 07, 2021 |
Tamsin Edwards on the uncertainty in climate science
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Jun 01, 2021 |
Mike Tipton on how our bodies respond to extreme conditions
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May 25, 2021 |
Nira Chamberlain on how mathematics can solve real-world problems
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May 18, 2021 |
Helen Scales on marine conservation
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May 11, 2021 |
Peter Goadsby on migraine
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May 04, 2021 |
Jane Clarke on Protein Folding
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Apr 27, 2021 |
Professor Martin Sweeting, inventor of microsatellites
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Apr 20, 2021 |
Theresa Marteau on how to change behaviour
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Apr 13, 2021 |
Mark Spencer on how plants solve crimes
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Mar 09, 2021 |
Sarah Bridle on the carbon footprint of food
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Mar 02, 2021 |
Richard Bentall on the causes of mental ill health
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Feb 23, 2021 |
Jane Hurst on the secret life of mice
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Feb 16, 2021 |
Anne Johnson on the importance of public health
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Feb 02, 2021 |
Giles Yeo on how our genes can make us fat
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Jan 26, 2021 |
Cath Noakes on making buildings Covid-safe
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Jan 19, 2021 |
Chris Jackson on sustainable geology
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Jan 12, 2021 |
Scientists in the Spotlight during the Pandemic
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Dec 15, 2020 |
Neil Ferguson on modelling Covid-19
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Sep 22, 2020 |
Sarah Gilbert on developing a vaccine for Covid-19
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Sep 15, 2020 |
Steve Haake on technology, sport and health
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Sep 08, 2020 |
Francesca Happé on autism
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Sep 01, 2020 |
Heather Koldewey on marine conservation
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Aug 25, 2020 |
Dale Sanders on feeding the world
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Aug 18, 2020 |
Andy Fabian on black holes
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Aug 11, 2020 |
Alice Roberts on bones
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Aug 04, 2020 |
Clifford Stott on riot prevention
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Jun 16, 2020 |
Emma Bunce on the gas giants
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Jun 09, 2020 |
Jane Goodall on living with wild chimpanzees
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Jun 02, 2020 |
Liz Seward and the dream of spaceflight
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May 26, 2020 |
Frank Kelly on air pollution
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May 19, 2020 |
Debbie Pain on conserving globally threatened bird species
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May 12, 2020 |
Jim McDonald on power networks
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May 05, 2020 |
Brian Greene on how the universe is made of string
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Apr 28, 2020 |
Myles Allen on understanding climate change
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Mar 04, 2020 |
Matthew Cobb on how we detect smells
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Mar 03, 2020 |
Anya Hurlbert on seeing colour
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Mar 02, 2020 |
Optical communications pioneer Polina Bayvel
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Feb 11, 2020 |
2019 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, Sir Peter Ratcliffe
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Feb 04, 2020 |
Peter Fonagy on a revolution in mental health care
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Jan 28, 2020 |
Susannah Maidment on stegosaurs
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Jan 14, 2020 |
Patricia Wiltshire on how pollen can solve crimes.
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Jan 07, 2020 |
Elizabeth Fisher on chromosomes in mice and men
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Nov 12, 2019 |
Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence
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Nov 05, 2019 |
Saiful Islam on materials to power the 21st century
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Oct 29, 2019 |
Adrian Owen on scanning for awareness in the injured brain
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Oct 22, 2019 |
Martha Clokie on the viruses that could improve our health
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Oct 15, 2019 |
Anne Magurran on how to measure biodiversity
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Oct 08, 2019 |
Richard Wiseman on lying, luck and the paranormal
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Oct 01, 2019 |
Jonathan Ball on his arms race against viruses
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Jul 30, 2019 |
Robin Dunbar on why we have friends
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Jul 23, 2019 |
Katherine Joy on moon rock
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Jul 16, 2019 |
DNA detective Turi King
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Jul 09, 2019 |
Ewine van Dishoeck on cosmic chemistry
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Jul 02, 2019 |
Plastic pollution with Richard Thompson
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Jun 25, 2019 |
Erica McAlister on the beauty of flies
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Apr 16, 2019 |
Richard Peto on why smoking kills but quitting saves lives
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Apr 09, 2019 |
Irene Tracey on pain in the brain
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Apr 02, 2019 |
Paul Davies on the origin of life and the evolution of cancer
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Mar 26, 2019 |
Corinne Le Quéré on the global carbon cycle
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Mar 19, 2019 |
Ken Gabriel, Why your Smartphone is Smart.
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Mar 13, 2019 |
2018 Nobel Prize winner, Donna Strickland, on laser physics
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Mar 05, 2019 |
Gwen Adshead on treating the minds of violent offenders
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Feb 26, 2019 |
2018 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner, Sir Gregory Winter
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Feb 19, 2019 |
Sue Black on women in tech
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Feb 12, 2019 |
Jim Al-Khalili on HIS life scientific
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Feb 05, 2019 |
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Dec 19, 2018 |
Clive Oppenheimer on the volcanic offerings of our angry earth
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Dec 11, 2018 |
Sky at Night presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock
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Dec 04, 2018 |
Banning chemical weapons with Alastair Hay
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Nov 27, 2018 |
Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove
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Nov 20, 2018 |
Mike Stratton and cancer genes
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Nov 13, 2018 |
Detective of the mind Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan
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Nov 06, 2018 |
Noel Fitzpatrick on becoming a supervet
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Oct 30, 2018 |
Jacqueline McGlade on monitoring the environment from space
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Oct 23, 2018 |
Rachel Mills exploring the sea floor
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Jun 19, 2018 |
Frank Close and particle physics
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Jun 12, 2018 |
Sheena Cruickshank on the wonders of the human immune system
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Jun 05, 2018 |
John Taylor on being an inventor
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May 29, 2018 |
Cat Hobaiter on communication in apes
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May 22, 2018 |
Caroline Dean reveals the genetic secrets of flowering
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May 15, 2018 |
Carlo Rovelli on why time is not what it seems
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May 08, 2018 |
Callum Roberts on the urgent need for marine conservation
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May 01, 2018 |
Stephen Reicher on the psychology of crowds
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Mar 13, 2018 |
Clare Grey on the Big Battery Challenge
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Mar 06, 2018 |
John Burn and the genetics of cancer
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Feb 20, 2018 |
Richard Henderson zooms in on the molecules of life
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Feb 13, 2018 |
Wendy Barclay and the flu virus
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Jan 30, 2018 |
Eugenia Cheng on the mathematics of mathematics
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Jan 23, 2018 |
Eben Upton on Raspberry Pi
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Jan 16, 2018 |
Adrian Thomas on the mechanics of flight
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Oct 31, 2017 |
Ellen Stofan on being NASA chief scientist
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Oct 24, 2017 |
Tim Birkhead on bird promiscuity
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Oct 17, 2017 |
Steve Cowley on Nuclear Fusion
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Oct 10, 2017 |
Lucie Green on the sun
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Oct 03, 2017 |
Tracey Rogers on leopard seals and Antarctica
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Sep 26, 2017 |
Jennifer Doudna
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Sep 19, 2017 |
Tamsin Mather on what volcanic plumes reveal about our planet
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May 30, 2017 |
Tim O'Brien on transient stars and science and music festivals
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May 23, 2017 |
Ottoline Leyser on how plants decide what to do
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May 16, 2017 |
Fay Dowker on a new theory of space-time
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May 09, 2017 |
Ann Clarke on The Frozen Ark
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May 02, 2017 |
Graham MacGregor on tackling the demons in our diet
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Apr 25, 2017 |
Liz Sockett on friendly killer bacteria
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Apr 18, 2017 |
Nick Fraser on Triassic reptiles
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Apr 11, 2017 |
Daniel Dennett on the evolution of the human brain
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Apr 04, 2017 |
Alison Woollard on what she has learnt from mutant worms
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Feb 28, 2017 |
Alan Winfield on robot ethics
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Feb 21, 2017 |
Simon Wessely on unexplained medical syndromes
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Feb 14, 2017 |
Sean Carroll on how time and space began
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Feb 07, 2017 |
Alison Smith on algae
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Jan 31, 2017 |
Sadaf Farooqi on what makes us fat
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Jan 24, 2017 |
Jan Zalasiewicz on the Age of Man
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Jan 17, 2017 |
Michele Dougherty on Saturn
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Jan 10, 2017 |
Neil de Grasse Tyson on Pluto
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Dec 20, 2016 |
Richard Morris on how we know where we are
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Dec 06, 2016 |
Julia Higgins on polymers
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Nov 29, 2016 |
Roger Penrose on black holes
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Nov 22, 2016 |
Lynne Boddy on Fungi
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Nov 15, 2016 |
Ian Wilmut on Dolly the sheep
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Oct 11, 2016 |
Frans de Waal on chimpanzees
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Oct 04, 2016 |
Trevor Cox on sound
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Jul 19, 2016 |
Georgina Mace on threatened species
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Jul 12, 2016 |
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem on memory
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Jul 05, 2016 |
Hazel Rymer on volcanoes
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Jun 27, 2016 |
Nick Davies on cuckoos
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Jun 21, 2016 |
Sheila Rowan on gravitational waves
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Jun 14, 2016 |
Marcus du Sautoy on mathematics
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Jun 07, 2016 |
Lawrence Krauss on dark energy
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May 31, 2016 |
Carolyn Roberts on flood control
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Mar 22, 2016 |
Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut (2016)
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Mar 15, 2016 |
Venki Ramakrishnan on ribosomes
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Mar 08, 2016 |
George Davey-Smith on health inequalities
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Mar 01, 2016 |
Dr Nick Lane on the origin of life on earth
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Feb 23, 2016 |
Naomi Climer on engineering
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Feb 16, 2016 |
Peter Piot on tackling ebola and HIV
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Feb 09, 2016 |
Paul Younger on energy for the future
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Nov 17, 2015 |
Kathy Willis on botany
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Nov 10, 2015 |
Patrick Vallance on pharmaceuticals
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Nov 03, 2015 |
Robert Plomin on the genetics of intelligence
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Oct 20, 2015 |
Danielle George on electronics
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Oct 13, 2015 |
Dame Carol Black on public health
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Oct 06, 2015 |
Geoff Palmer on brewing
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Aug 04, 2015 |
EO Wilson on ants and evolution
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Jul 28, 2015 |
Niamh Nic Daeid on forensic science
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Jul 21, 2015 |
Carlos Frenk on dark matter
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Jul 14, 2015 |
Dorothy Bishop on language disorders
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Jul 07, 2015 |
Henry Marsh on brain surgery
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Jun 30, 2015 |
Kate Jones on bats and biodiversity
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Jun 23, 2015 |
Anil Seth on consciousness
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Jun 16, 2015 |
Susan Jebb on nutrition
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Apr 21, 2015 |
Nigel Shadbolt on the worldwide web
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Apr 14, 2015 |
Stephanie Shirley on computer coding
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Apr 07, 2015 |
Jane Francis on Antarctica
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Mar 31, 2015 |
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains
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Mar 24, 2015 |
Matt Taylor on the Rosetta space mission
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Mar 17, 2015 |
John O'Keefe on memory
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Mar 10, 2015 |
Dave Goulson on bees
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Nov 11, 2014 |
Dame Sally Davies on public health
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Nov 04, 2014 |
Richard Fortey on fossils
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Oct 28, 2014 |
Margaret Boden on artificial intelligence
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Oct 21, 2014 |
Chris Toumazou on inventing medical devices
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Oct 14, 2014 |
Elspeth Garman on crystallography
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Oct 07, 2014 |
Jackie Akhavan on explosives
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Sep 30, 2014 |
Brian Cox on quantum mechanics
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Sep 23, 2014 |
Carol Robinson on chemistry
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Jul 22, 2014 |
Jeremy Farrar on fighting viruses
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Jul 15, 2014 |
Zoe Shipton on fracking
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Jul 08, 2014 |
Chris Llewellyn Smith on nuclear fusion
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Jul 01, 2014 |
Sandy Knapp
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Jun 24, 2014 |
Chris Lintott
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Jun 17, 2014 |
Janet Hemingway
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Jun 10, 2014 |
Professor Sir Michael Rutter
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Jun 03, 2014 |
Julia Slingo
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Apr 08, 2014 |
Veronica van Heyningen
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Apr 01, 2014 |
Alf Adams
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Mar 25, 2014 |
Anne Glover
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Mar 18, 2014 |
Mark Miodownik
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Mar 11, 2014 |
Vikram Patel
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Mar 04, 2014 |
Sue Black
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Feb 25, 2014 |
Peter Higgs
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Feb 18, 2014 |
Wendy Hall
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Oct 08, 2013 |
Jenny Graves
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Oct 01, 2013 |
Sophie Scott
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Sep 24, 2013 |
Ian Stewart
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Sep 17, 2013 |
Mike Benton
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Sep 10, 2013 |
Mark Lythgoe
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Sep 03, 2013 |
Joanna Haigh
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Aug 27, 2013 |
Russell Foster
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Aug 20, 2013 |
Elizabeth Stokoe
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Jun 25, 2013 |
David Spiegelhalter
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Jun 18, 2013 |
Ewan Birney
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Jun 11, 2013 |
Athene Donald
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Jun 04, 2013 |
Linda Partridge
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May 28, 2013 |
Lord John Krebs
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May 21, 2013 |
Sanjeev Gupta
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May 14, 2013 |
Nancy Rothwell
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May 07, 2013 |
Sue Ion
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Feb 26, 2013 |
Alan Watson
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Feb 19, 2013 |
Valerie Beral
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Feb 05, 2013 |
Noel Sharkey
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Jan 29, 2013 |
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
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Jan 21, 2013 |
Prof Robert Mair
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Jan 15, 2013 |
Amoret Whitaker
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Jan 08, 2013 |
John Gurdon
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Dec 18, 2012 |
Jared Diamond
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Dec 04, 2012 |
Monica Grady
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Oct 16, 2012 |
Hugh Montgomery
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Oct 09, 2012 |
Sir Mark Walport
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Oct 02, 2012 |
Sunetra Gupta
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Sep 25, 2012 |
David Nutt
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Sep 18, 2012 |
Andrea Sella
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Sep 11, 2012 |
Richard Dawkins
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Sep 04, 2012 |
Dame Ann Dowling
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Aug 28, 2012 |
Martin Siegert
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Aug 21, 2012 |
Pat Wolseley
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Aug 14, 2012 |
Steve Jones
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Aug 07, 2012 |
John Pickett
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Jun 12, 2012 |
Robert May
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Jun 05, 2012 |
Barbara Sahakian
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May 29, 2012 |
Lloyd Peck
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May 22, 2012 |
Frances Ashcroft
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May 15, 2012 |
James Lovelock
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May 08, 2012 |
Angela Gallop
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Mar 27, 2012 |
Tejinder Virdee
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Mar 20, 2012 |
John Lawton
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Mar 13, 2012 |
Martin Rees
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Mar 06, 2012 |
Iain Chalmers
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Feb 28, 2012 |
Tony Ryan
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Feb 21, 2012 |
Chris Stringer
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Feb 14, 2012 |
Robin Murray
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Feb 07, 2012 |
Colin Pillinger
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Dec 27, 2011 |
Lord Robert Winston
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Dec 20, 2011 |
Tim Hunt
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Dec 13, 2011 |
Uta Frith
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Dec 06, 2011 |
John Sulston
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Nov 29, 2011 |
Nicky Clayton
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Nov 22, 2011 |
Molly Stevens
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Nov 15, 2011 |
Colin Blakemore
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Nov 08, 2011 |
Sir Michael Marmot
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Nov 01, 2011 |
Steven Pinker
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Oct 18, 2011 |
Paul Nurse
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Oct 11, 2011 |