The Life Scientific

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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


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