Derk-Jan Dijk on the importance of sleep

How does sleep change as we age? Derk-Jan Dijk talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

• 27 mins

Hannah Cloke and predicting floods

Hannah Cloke talks to Jim Al-Khalili about predicting this summer's serious floods.

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific at 10: What makes a scientist?

Jim Al-Khalili and distinguished guests reflect on ten years of The Life Scientific.

• 56 mins

The Patrick Vallance Interview

Science and our future

• 37 mins

Tim Spector and personalised diets for long term health

Professor Tim Spector on fuelling gut microbes for long term health.

• 32 mins

Tim Clutton-Brock on meerkats, red deer and evolution

What makes meerkats so cooperative and why do sons cost mothers more than daughters?

• 29 mins

Sharon Peacock on hunting pandemic variants of concern

Leading the UK's hunt for new and dangerous Covid-19 variants.

• 28 mins

Julia Shaw on memories that aren't true

Can we trust our memories of events? Julia Shaw talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

• 38 mins

Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA

The man who found a way to decode DNA at speed.

• 29 mins

Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals

How did mammals come to dominate our planet? Prof Steve Brusatte talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

• 40 mins

Ben Garrod on conservation and extinction

What can bones tell us about evolution, behaviour and extinction?

• 35 mins

Chi Onwurah on why engineering is a caring profession.

Why politics needs more scientists and engineers.

• 37 mins

Pete Smith on why soil matters

Restore peat bogs to mitigate climate change and improve bio-diversity.

• 31 mins

Jacinta Tan on anorexia nervosa and the mind

How does a person with anorexia nervosa think? Jacinta Tan talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

• 28 mins

Adam Hart on ants, bees and insect burgers

When does a waggle dance become a tremble dance?

• 28 mins

Vlatko Vedral on the universe as quantum information

A self-confessed physics fundamentalist decodes reality.

• 37 mins

Sir Martin Landray on saving over a million lives

Sir Martin Landray on how he discovered the drugs for Covid-19 with the RECOVERY Trial.

• 39 mins

Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize

Turning microbes into living factories.

• 28 mins

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.

• 28 mins

Emily Holmes on how to treat trauma

Why images are more powerful than words in shaping how we think and feel.

• 31 mins

Can computers discover new medicines?

Using AI to discover drugs. Daphne Koller tells Jim Al-Khalili about her life and work.

• 27 mins

The sounds of coral reefs

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

• 30 mins

Why study sewage?

Leon Barron tells Jim Al-Khalili how he developed an intense interest in sewage.

• 28 mins

A passion for fruit flies

Bambos Kyriacou tells Jim Al-Khalili why he studies the behaviour of fruit flies.

• 28 mins

Chris Elliott on fighting food fraud

How ‘fingerprinting’ technology could help prevent another horse meat scam.

• 31 mins

Pam Shaw on the research battle against motor neurone disease

How new drug trials could mark a turning point in MND research.

• 28 mins

Rebecca Kilner on beetle behaviours and evolution

How corpse-based beetles can answer long-standing questions about human evolution.

• 28 mins

Clifford Johnson on making sense of black holes and movie plots

Jim Al-Khalili hears about new approaches to quantum questions and using science in films.

• 32 mins

Adrian Smith on the power of Bayesian statistics

How a once-derided approach to statistics paved the way for AI.

• 28 mins

Haley Gomez on cosmic dust

Jim Al-Khalili talks to astrophysicist Haley Gomez.

• 28 mins