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Frontiers of Earth Science
The very latest developments in the world of Earth science with Roland Pease, recorded at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in New Orleans,...
What is Quantum?
Quantum theory – our best understanding of the world at the smallest level – is famously weird and notoriously confusing. It’s a theory that seems to...
The Life Scientific: George Church
"My ideas are often labelled as impossible, or useless, or both. Usually when people say that I'm on the right track." George Church is a geneticist,...
The Life Scientific: Gareth Collett
Movies might have us believe that bomb disposal comes down to cutting the right wire. In fact, explosive devices are complex and varied - and learning...
The Life Scientific: Sonia Gandhi
Many people will be familiar with Parkinson’s disease: the progressive brain disorder that causes symptoms including tremors and slower movement, lead...
The Life Scientific: Mark O'Shea
How do you feel about snakes? What about highly venomous ones?
For Mark O’Shea, close encounters with the world’s most rare and deadly snakes ar...
Different Voices
What’s it like to wake up with a brand new voice? For those with foreign accent syndrome, this is their reality. Patients who develop this rare speech...
The Animal Employment Agency
We live in a time of automation and robotics; the machines run the factories, and AI will soon take all the jobs. Yet, even today, there are certain n...
Bodies
The London Anatomy Office accepts around 350 human bodies donated for medical research and education annually. You may imagine that these bodies are p...
The Life Scientific: Kevin Fong
There can't be many people in the world who've saved lives in hospital emergency rooms and also helped care for the wellbeing of astronauts in space –...
The Life Scientific: Dame Pratibha Gai
Chemical reactions are the backbone of modern society: the energy we use, the medicines we take, our housing materials, even the foods we eat, are cre...
The Life Scientific: Catherine Heymans
Have you ever considered the lighter side of dark matter?
Comedy has proved an unexpectedly succesful way to engage people with science - as tod...
The Life Scientific: Tim Coulson
As a young man, traveling in Africa, Tim Coulson - now Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford - became seriously ill with malaria and was to...
The Life Scientific: Brian Schmidt
Have you ever pondered the fact that the universe is expanding? And not only that, it's expanding at an increasing speed - meaning everything around u...
The Life Scientific: Jacqueline McKinley
How much information can you extract from a burnt fragment of human bone?
Quite a lot, it turns out - not only about the individual, but also th...