The Life Scientific Episodes Available now
Rebecca Kilner on beetle behaviours and evolution
How corpse-based beetles can answer long-standing questions about human evolution.
Pam Shaw on the research battle against motor neurone disease
How new drug trials could mark a turning point in MND research.
Chris Elliott on fighting food fraud
How 鈥榝ingerprinting鈥� technology could help prevent another horse meat scam.
A passion for fruit flies
Bambos Kyriacou tells Jim Al-Khalili why he studies the behaviour of fruit flies.
Why study sewage?
Leon Barron tells Jim Al-Khalili how he developed an intense interest in sewage.
The sounds of coral reefs
Jim Al-Khalili meets Tim Lamont, a young ecologist making waves restoring coral reefs
Can computers discover new medicines?
Using AI to discover drugs. Daphne Koller tells Jim Al-Khalili about her life and work.
Emily Holmes on how to treat trauma
Why images are more powerful than words in shaping how we think and feel.
Judith Bunbury on the shifting River Nile in the time of the Pharaohs
A geo-archaeologist digs down to enrich our knowledge of ancient Egypt and beyond.
Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize
Turning microbes into living factories.