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The sound of deafness
The science of hearing; cochlear implants; the sound of deafness
The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist
Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.
End of Drug Discovery
The long and expensive struggle to get medicines to market
Speeding up the drug development process to treat the major diseases facing us
The Age We Made - Part 1
Is humanity launching a new geological age on the Earth?
The Age We Made - Part 2
Are humans creating a new geological epoch through climate change and fossil fuels?
The Age We Made - Part 3
Are humans launching a new geological epoch through species extinction and farming?
The Age We Made
How might cities, mobile phones and humans become fossilised in years to come?
Hallucination 1/2
Understanding hallucination may provide new treatments for psychosis and schizophrenia
Hallucination 2/2
Geoff Watts explores the science of hallucination.
Last Man, First Scientist on the Moon
An interview with the only geologist to explore the moon's surface, Harrison Schmitt
Particle Physics
What are particle physicists doing after finding the Higgs boson?
Piltdown Man
Piltdown Man 鈥 could such a shocking case of scientific fraud happen again?
Why do women outlive men
Why do women live longer than men? Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea
John Gurdon
2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep
The ENCODE Project
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
Quantum Biology
What is quantum biology and why is it important?
Sexual Nature 1/3
Frolicking fossils and suggestive theories - the evolutionary history of sex
Sexual Nature 2/3
How did sex begin and why do some many species keep doing it?
Sexual Nature 3/3
Life鈥檚 many paths to being female or male: in humans, komodo dragons and transexual fish
What If... We could all become cyborgs?
Dr Andrew Holding meets some of the people straddling the line between man and machine.
What If... We could stay young forever? 1/3
Peter Bowes explores how science and lifestyle could hold the promise to staying young.
What If... We could stay young forever? 2/3
Peter Bowes asks if exercise and lifestyle changes hold the key to staying young.
What If... We could stay young forever? 3/3
Peter Bowes concludes his exploration of the drive to live longer by looking at diet.
Premiership Science
Like football, science is an international endeavour complete with its own stars.
Obituary: Margaret Thatcher
An obituary of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Annette Karmiloff-Smith on toddlers and TV
Should babies under two watch TV? Jim talks to psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith.
Noel Sharkey
Jim Al-Khalili talks to roboticist and psychologist, Noel Sharkey.
A Trip Around Mars with Kevin Fong - Part One
The alien mountains, canyons and craters that inspire scientists and writers