The Life Scientific Podcast
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
Episodes to download
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Tejinder Virdee
Tue 20 Mar 2012
Jim Al-Khalili talks to physicist Tejinder Virdee about the search for the Higgs boson.
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Martin Rees
Tue 6 Mar 2012
Jim Al-Khalili enters the multiverse with the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees.
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Iain Chalmers
Tue 28 Feb 2012
Jim Al-Khalili talks to pioneering health services researcher, Iain Chalmers.
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Tony Ryan
Tue 21 Feb 2012
What is the future of nanotechnology? Chemist Tony Ryan shows some of its surprising uses.
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Chris Stringer
Tue 14 Feb 2012
Jim Al-Khalili meets paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer to find who our ancestors were.
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Robin Murray
Tue 7 Feb 2012
Psychiatrist Robin Murray on why he has changed his mind about the cause of schizophrenia.
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Colin Pillinger
Tue 27 Dec 2011
Prof Jim Al-Khalili talks to planetary scientist Colin Pillinger about life on Mars.
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Lord Robert Winston
Tue 20 Dec 2011
Lord Robert Winston on IVF, the House of Lords and scientists' ethical responsibilty.
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Tim Hunt
Tue 13 Dec 2011
Prof Jim al-Khalili talks to Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Sir Tim Hunt.
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Uta Frith
Tue 6 Dec 2011
Jim meets psychologist Prof Uta Frith, whose work changed how we view brain disorders.
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Nicky Clayton
Tue 22 Nov 2011
Nicky Clayton talks to Prof Jim Al-Khalili about her work on the intelligence of birds.
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Molly Stevens
Tue 15 Nov 2011
Jim al-Khalili talks to a scientist who grows human bones in a test tube, Molly Stevens.
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Colin Blakemore
Tue 8 Nov 2011
Neuroscientist Colin Blakemore talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his life and work.
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Sir Michael Marmot
Tue 1 Nov 2011
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Sir Michael Marmot about his work on how stress kills.
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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Tue 25 Oct 2011
Jim Al-Khalili talks to astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
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Steven Pinker
Tue 18 Oct 2011
Inside the mind of science writer and cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker.
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Paul Nurse
Tue 11 Oct 2011
Jim meets Paul Nurse, Nobel prize-winning geneticist and President of the Royal Society.
Sleep 鈥� the mystery state
What is the secret to a good nights sleep? Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores.
Is your mind a machine?
Daniel Dennett thinks so. Here is what we learned from his Life Scientific.
