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Jim Al-Khalili discusses how ageing populations and falling birthrates could change the world with Professor Sarah Harper from the Oxford University Institute of Population Ageing. Show more
28 minutes
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Professor Jim Al-Khalili meets one of Britain's greatest physicists, Sir Michael Berry. He describes his work revealng the science that underpins phenomena in the world around us. Show more
28 minutes
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Magician and Professor of Psychology, Richard Wiseman tells Jim Al-Khalili how to spot a liar and why some people are luckier than others. Show more
28 minutes
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Professor Anne Magurran tells Jim Al-Khalili how nature is going the same way as our high streets. Show more
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How to stop peaceful protests turning into riots. Professor Clifford Stott tells Jim Al Khalili about his life and work as a crowd psychologist and police advisor. Show more
29 minutes
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Inside the mind of a forensic botanist, Mark Spencer tells Jim Al-Khalili how plant evidence can help to solve crimes. Show more
29 minutes
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When does a waggle dance become a tremble dance? Adam Hart talks honey bees with Jim Al-Khalili and explains his love of leaf-cutting ants. Show more
28 minutes
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Nobel Prize-winning chemist Frances Arnold talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her extraordinary life and career, which includes inventing a radical new approach to engineering enzymes. Show more
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Jim Al-Khalili unravels the tangled chains of genetic (and epigenetic) inheritance, with geneticist Anne Ferguson-Smith. Show more
28 minutes
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Jim Al-Khalili speaks to ocean engineer Deborah Greaves about growing up by the sea, being inspired to study fluid dynamics, and the challenges and possibilities of wave energy. Show more
29 minutes
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Physicist Edward Witten speaks to Jim Al-Khalili about his work on M-Theory, a leading contender for 'the theory of everything'. Show more
28 minutes
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Sheila Rowan talks about her quest to detect gravitational waves and the excitement when these tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time were finally detected. Show more
28 minutes
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Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work. Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett talks to Jim about the evolution of the human brain. Show more
28 minutes
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The Life Scientific turns the tables on the presenter, physicist Jim Al-Khalili. What motivates and inspires him? Show more
28 minutes
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Professor Stephen Reicher of St Andrews University and Jim Al-Khalili discuss the psychology of crowd behaviour at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead. Show more
40 minutes
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How did mammals come to dominate our planet? Prof Steve Brusatte tells Jim Al-Khalili about his life and work studying dinosaurs, mammals and ancient reptiles. Show more
29 minutes
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What makes meerkats so cooperative and why do sons cost mothers more than daughters? Zoologist and evolutionary biologist Tim Clutton-Brock explains to Jim Al-Khalili. Show more
31 minutes
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Restore peat bogs to mitigate climate change and improve bio-diversity. Prof Pete Smith talks to Jim Al-Khalili Show more
28 minutes
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Can we live healthier lives in old age? Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Dame Linda Partridge, who studies the genetics of ageing, with the hope that one day she can slow it down. Show more
28 minutes
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Janet Hemingway tells Jim Al-Khalili about forthcoming insecticide resistance developing in the mosquitoes that transmit malaria, and how it could cost many lives. Show more
