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    The Life Scientific

    The Life Scientific

    The Life Scientific

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    Length:
    303 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    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
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 303 episodes

    Title

    Mike Edmunds on decoding galaxies and ancient astronomical artefacts

    What is the universe made of? Where does space dust come from? And how exactly might o...

    32 minutes
    		Apr 23, 2024

    Hannah Critchlow on the connected brain

    With 86 billion nerve cells joined together in a network of 100 trillion connections, t...

    28 minutes
    		Apr 16, 2024

    Fiona Rayment on the applications of nuclear for net zero and beyond

    The reputation of the nuclear industry has had highs and lows during the career of Dr F...

    28 minutes
    		Apr 09, 2024

    Nick Longrich on discovering new dinosaurs from overlooked bones

    We are fascinated by dinosaurs. From blockbuster hits to bestselling video games, skele...

    28 minutes
    		Apr 02, 2024

    Sheila Willis on using science to help solve crime

    Dr Sheila Willis is a forensic scientist who was Director General of Forensic Science I...

    28 minutes
    		Mar 27, 2024

    Sir Charles Godfray on parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people

    Professor Charles Godfray, Director of the the Oxford Martin School tells Jim Al-Kahlil...

    28 minutes
    		Mar 19, 2024

    Jonathan Van-Tam on Covid communication and the power of football analogies

    Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, or ‘JVT’ as he's arguably better known, first came to widespread ...

    36 minutes
    		Mar 12, 2024

    Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots

    Humans have a long-held fascination with the idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a ...

    37 minutes
    		Dec 19, 2023

    Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful

    How do you solve a problem like CO2? As the curtain closes on the world’s most importan...

    28 minutes
    		Dec 12, 2023

    Sir Harry Bhadeshia on the choreography of metals

    The Life Scientific zooms in to explore the intricate atomic make-up of metal alloys, w...

    28 minutes
    		Dec 05, 2023