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Naomi Climer on engineering

Naomi Climer tells Jim Al-Khalili why engineers should be as famous as rock stars.

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Dr Nick Lane on the origin of life on earth

Dr Nick Lane of UCL talks about studying the origin of life on earth with Jim Al-Khalili.

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George Davey-Smith on health inequalities

Epidemiologist Prof George Davey-Smith talks to Jim Al-Khalili about health inequalities.

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Venki Ramakrishnan on ribosomes

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Nobel Prize-winner Venki Ramakrishnan.

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Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut (2016)

Helen Sharman talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the ups and downs of being in space.

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Carolyn Roberts on flood control

Environmental scientist Carolyn Roberts talks to Jim al-Khalili about floods and forensics

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Lawrence Krauss on dark energy

Author and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss discusses dark energy with Jim Al-Khalili.

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Marcus du Sautoy on mathematics

Marcus Du Sautoy shares his passion for mathematics with Jim Al-Khalili.

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Sheila Rowan on gravitational waves

Sheila Rowan talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her role in the search for gravitational waves.

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Nick Davies on cuckoos

The battle between cuckoos and warblers, as told by Nick Davies to Jim Al-Khalili.

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Hazel Rymer on volcanoes

Hazel Rymer talks volcanoes with Jim Al-Khalili.

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Faraneh Vargha-Khadem on memory

Faraneh Vargha-Khadem talks to Jim Al-Khalili about how memories are made.

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Georgina Mace on threatened species

Georgina Mace talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her Red List of Threatened Species.

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Trevor Cox on sound

Acoustic engineer Trevor Cox discusses the science of sound with Jim Al-Khalili.

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Frans de Waal on chimpanzees

Frans de Waal tells Jim Al-Khalili why we should expect chimpanzees to be clever.

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Ian Wilmut on Dolly the sheep

Jim Al-Khalili talks cloning with the creator of Dolly the sheep, Ian Wilmut.

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Lynne Boddy on Fungi

Lynne Boddy enthuses about fungi.

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Roger Penrose on black holes

Sir Roger Penrose talks to Jim Al-Khalili about black holes and flaws in quantum physics.

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Julia Higgins on polymers

Professor Dame Julia Higgins shares her passion for polymers with Jim Al-Khalili.

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Richard Morris on how we know where we are

Neuroscientist Richard Morris explains how brain cells remember.

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Neil de Grasse Tyson on Pluto

US science superstar, Neil de Grasse Tyson describes why Pluto isn't a planet.

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Michele Dougherty on Saturn

Michele Dougherty tells Jim Al-Khalili why she diverted the Cassini mission to Saturn.

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Jan Zalasiewicz on the Age of Man

Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the Anthropocene, the Age of Man.

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Sadaf Farooqi on what makes us fat

Sadaf Farooqi describes how she found ten rare genetic disorders that cause obesity.

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Alison Smith on algae

Professor Alison Smith talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the many and varied uses of algae.

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Sean Carroll on how time and space began

Sean Carroll tells Jim why he abandoned Einstein for quantum entanglement.

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Simon Wessely on unexplained medical syndromes

Simon Wessely on medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes.

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Alan Winfield on robot ethics

Alan Winfield talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the ethics of robots, from drones to androids.

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Alison Woollard on what she has learnt from mutant worms

Geneticist Alison Wollard explains her enthusiasm for a tiny nematode worm.

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Daniel Dennett on the evolution of the human brain

Daniel Dennett talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the evolution of the human brain.

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