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Bad Blood: The curse of Mendel

How Gregor Mendel discovered the gene, an insight which inspired eugenics from the 1900s

• 28 mins

Bad Blood: Newgenics

Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?

• 28 mins

The Life Scientific: Tim Lamont

Jim Al-Khalili meets Tim Lamont, a young ecologist making waves restoring coral reefs.

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Rebecca Kilner

Jim al-Khalili hears how insects helped Rebecca Kilner solve evolutionary mysteries

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Clifford Johnson

New approaches to quantum questions and using science in films.

• 27 mins

Judith Bunbury: Unearthing the secrets of Ancient Egypt

Dr Judith Bunbury on enriching our knowledge of ancient Egypt and beyond

• 27 mins

Our Microbes and Our Health

The astonishing and mysterious world of the human microbiome.

• 49 mins

The Case of The Blind Man's Eye

Why can't I see images in my mind?

• 27 mins

The magnetic mystery

The Curious Cases team explore the strange world of magnetism

• 27 mins

The puzzle of the pyramids

The Curious Cases team discovers how Egypt's pyramids were really built.

• 27 mins

The resurrection quest

The Curious Cases team ask if it's possible - or desirable - to bring back extinct species

• 27 mins

The mind-numbing medicine

The Curious Cases team investigate the magical properties of anaesthetics.

• 28 mins

The impossible number

The Curious Cases team get to grips with the very real uses of imaginary numbers

• 27 mins

Lazy guide to exercise

What is the least amount of exercise you can do to still stay healthy?

• 27 mins

Maggots in medicine

The healthcare professionals who are turning to maggot therapy to help clean up wounds

• 28 mins

Food Insecurity

Explorations in the world of science.

• 27 mins

Fungal pandemic threat

Why invasive fungal infections are on the rise and a potential pandemic could be a threat

• 27 mins

Psychedelics

How psychedelics are shaking up psychiatry

• 27 mins

Sperm counts

Are sperm counts falling?

• 27 mins

Seeing more

The new technologies pushing the boundaries of what we can see, hear, smell, and feel

• 27 mins

Sound solutions

Prof Ben Garrod meets conservationists with sound solutions to protect animal habitats

• 27 mins

Smelly people

Prof Ben Garrod uses new tech to sniff things out, and explores extending our senses

• 27 mins

The Evidence: Exploring the concept of solastalgia

The feeling of pain or distress associated with environmental change close to your home

• 50 mins

Remote touch

Prof Ben Garrod investigates the technology trying to replicate human touch

• 27 mins

Bodies, brains and computers

How technology is blurring the line between our bodies, our brains, and computers

• 27 mins

In search of stardust

A jazz musician becomes a cosmic dust hunter

• 30 mins

The Life Scientific: Andre Geim

The Nobel prize-winning physicist talks about the world's strongest material, graphene

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Bruce Malamud

Bruce Malamud on modelling risk for natural hazards

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Anne Ferguson-Smith on unravelling epigenetics.

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Anne-Marie Imafidon

Anne-Marie Imafidon on fighting for diversity and equality in science.

• 27 mins