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Chronotypes
Why are some people 'early birds' while others are 'night owls'?
Fixing Nitrogen
What are alternatives to the process that takes nitrogen from the air to make fertilizer?
Saving the Oceans - Part One
Tackling the problems of population and rising seas for the Pacific islands of Kirabati
Saving the Oceans - Part Two
Saving sharks and snails in the Pacific using modern technology and traditional practice
Saving the Oceans - Part Three
Commercial fishing鈥檚 impact on bird evolution, and the threat of coral eating starfish
Saving the Oceans - Part Four
Aboriginal knowledge and modern science helps to preserve Australia鈥檚 marine ecology
Show me the Way to Go Home
How animals navigate, from homing instincts to smell maps and astronomy
Hack my Hearing
Can hacking hearing aids create a new super sense for people with hearing loss?
Fructose: the Bittersweet Sugar
Is fructose a 'toxic additive' or a healthy fruit sugar?
The Biology of Freedom
Is free will unique to humans or a biological trait that evolved over time?
Inside the Shark's Mind
Can science stop sharks attacking humans?
Vikram Patel
Jim al-Khalili discusses global mental health with psychiatrist Professor Vikram Patel
Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs opens up to Jim Al-Khalili about the Higgs boson.
Whatever Happened to Biofuels?
Can we make biofuels from the sugars in the inedible parts of plants?
Whatever Happened to Biofuels - Part Two
Gaia Vince asks if we can ever run our vehicles on biofuels from algae or bacteria.
Sue Black
Forensic scientist Sue Black on the clues she uses to identify human bodies
Mark Miodownik
Mark Miodownik talks nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials with Jim Al-Khalili.
Alf Adams
Alf Adams remembers his small idea that changed the world, with Jim Al-Khalili.
Beauty and the Brain
Dr Tiffany Jenkins explores what neuroscience knows about art
Taming the Sun
ITER, the world's effort to harness nuclear fusion, and the most complex experiment ever
Driverless Cars
The future cars with sensors that can send messages to other cars, trucks and pedestrians
The engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves
Ageing and the Brain
Do our mental powers really decline in old age?
Janet Hemingway
Janet Hemingway on malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance with Jim al-Khalili
Anaesthesia
How do general anaesthetics work in the body?
Swarming Robots
Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots
What has Happened to El Nino?
What is making this year鈥檚 predicted El Nino so hard to forecast?
Professor Sir Michael Rutter
Child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter influenced understanding of autism and behaviour
Rosetta Mission Arriving At Comet
Orbiting and landing on a comet. The most daring science space mission ever?
Cosmology
Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang?
Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part One
Why our antibiotics are failing. Is this the end of modern medicine?