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Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall describes her life with the wild chimpanzees of Gombe.
Brian Greene
Brian Greene studies the universe at the largest and smallest scales imaginable.
Human Genome Project's 20th Anniversary
Twenty years of the Human Genome Project
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Frank Kelly
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Professor Emma Bunce
Emma Bunce tells Jim Al-Khalili why she is intrigued by the gas giants Jupiter and Neptune
Liz Seward
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Liz Seward, Senior Space Strategist for Airbus Defence and Space.
Return to Mars
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The seeded cloud
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The Evidence: Covid lessons for safe school reopening
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Megadrought in Chile
Why Chile has a megadrought
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Locked in the lockdown cycle 鈥 evidence for a more targeted response
Anatomy Of Touch
Touch hunger
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Unwanted touch
How can we stop unwanted touch?
Affectionate touch
How we experience gentle touch
Digital touch
Can touch be replicated digitally?
Birds: singing for survival
Birds are changing their tunes
Broad spectrum
Helen Keen had a diagnosis of autism as an adult. She explores how it appears in women
The end of everything
When and how is the universe going to end?
The Evidence: Pandemic rules: follower or flouter?
Why a sense of 鈥渨e鈥 rather than 鈥淚鈥 makes us more likely to follow pandemic rules
The Zedonk Problem
What are ligons and tigers? What is a species?
The Space Burrito
Is there a point in space where the Sun could heat a burrito perfectly? And other puzzles
Steve Haake
Steve Haake talks to Jim al-Khalili about how technology improves sporting ability
Evolutionary biologist Alice Roberts
What can we learn from human remains? Alice Roberts talks bones with Jim Al Khalili
Hopes and fears for Covid-19 vaccines
Vaccines and virus mutations
Climate meltdown
Wildfires, floods, hurricanes made 2020 record breaking. What it says about climate change
Marine conservationist Heather Koldewey
Saving seahorses and turning old fishing nets into luxury carpets.
Astrophysicist Andy Fabian
Professor Andy Fabian on supermassive black holes and their dramatic hold over galaxies
Plant scientist Dale Sanders
Why the world needs more plant scientists. Prof Dale Sanders talks to Jim Al-Khalili.