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The colour conundrum
How do we see colour and why are some people colour blind?
The Life Scientific: Pete Smith
Restore peat bogs to mitigate climate change and improve bio-diversity.
The Life Scientific: Jacinta Tan
How does a person with anorexia nervosa think? Jacinta Tan sheds light on this illness
The Life Scientific: Adam Hart
When does a waggle dance become a tremble dance?
The mysterious particles of physics, part 1
The machine that found the Higgs Boson 10 years ago is about to start digging deeper
The mysterious particles of physics, part 2
Dark matter's dark secrets. Researchers seeking the unseen stuff that fills the universe
The mysterious particles of physics, part 3
Roland Pease explores the 100-km atom smasher physicists are planning at CERN
Plant based promises, rise of the plant based burger
Why do we need to eat more plant based foods? Giles Yeo looks at the alternatives.
Plant based promises and sustainability
Giles Yeo looks at the sustainability of plant based products
Plant based promises, diet and health
Giles learns to cook a plant based Thai green curry.
Satellites versus the stars
What are the benefits and unintended consequences of thousands more satellites in space?
How Covid changed science, part 1
What has been the impact of Covid on the practice of science?
How Covid changed science, part 2
Professor Devi Sridhar investigates the impact of Covid on the practice of science
How Covid Changed Science, part 3
Professor Devi Sridhar investigates the impact of Covid on the practice of science.
Sir Martin Landray
Jim al-Khalili speaks to Sir Martin Landray about the world's largest Covid-19 drug trial.
Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold on turning microbes into living factories.
David Eagleman
Can we create new senses? Prof David Eagleman talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
The Evidence: How pandemics end
Is it premature to say the pandemic is over?
Chi Onwurah
Why politics needs more scientists and engineers.
The Case of The Missing Gorilla
鈥淗ow can I be immersed in a book, and still notice my name?鈥 asks Charlotte.
The Wild and Windy Tale
鈥淗ow do winds start and why do they stop?鈥 asks Georgina from the Isle of Wight.
The suspicious smell
Why do our bodies smell? And does our smell influence how much we like each other?
The problem of infinite Pi(e)
How did we discover Pi? How do we know that it鈥檚 infinite and never repeats? asks Alex
The Riddle of Red-Eyes and Runny-Noses
Why do things like pet hair, peanuts and pollen can get our immune systems so riled up?
The puzzle of the plasma doughnut
鈥淗ow does fusion work, and how can we do it safely on earth?鈥 asks Les Walker
Wild inside: The Cheetah
The amazing internal anatomy of the cheetah and the secrets to survival
Wild inside: Great Grey Owl
Explorations in the world of science.
Wild inside: The Harbour Porpoise
Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of the enigmatic harbour porpoise
Wild Inside: The Alpaca
Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the secrets to success of the alpaca.
Tooth and Claw: Komodo dragon
Preparing for the next pandemic
Scientists warn it鈥檚 not if, but when, another pandemic will hit us