Why do fish shoal, birds flock and locusts swarm? Professor Iain Couzin explains the secrets of collective animal behaviour and we can learn from them. Show more

Irene Tracey is known as the Queen of Pain and she inflicts pain on Claudia Hammond to show how easily the brain can be tricked. Show more

Professor Sadaf Farooqi looks at why some people put on weight and others don’t. And, how genes even influence what foods we eat. Show more

How do we halt the rise of drug resistant malaria? Gareth Mitchell and a local audience on the Thai/ Myanmar border discuss with professors Nick White and Francois Nosten . Show more

Marine Biologist Mary Hagedorn aims to save the coral reefs for future generations by adapting human in vitro fertilisation techniques to create a coral sperm bank. Show more

AC Grayling in conversation with Gebisa Ejeta, a World Food Prize Laureate and an advisor to President Barrack Obama. Show more

AC Grayling in conversation with Steven Pinker, a leading authority on language and mind. Show more

AC Grayling in conversation with Sir Paul Nurse, a Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist and the new President of The Royal Society, the oldest science establishment in the world. Show more

AC Grayling in conversation with Vilayanur Ramachandran, the 'Marco Polo' of neuroscience. He is the Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego. Show more

Valerie Mizrahi is the Director of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town, where she has done ground-breaking work on tuberculosis. Show more

Professor Nazneen Rahman and her search for genes that can cause cancer. Her work identifying genetic mutations has led to new more effective treatments being developed. Show more

Electrical charges in the human body - what are the implications for disease and cures? Meet one of the world's experts on how the body channels electrical charges. Show more

The global risks of Sars and influenza - what if anything can be done to allay the risks of global epidemics? Show more

What is the God particle? Is that the best name for it? Lisa Randall answers this and other questions about the nature of reality, posed by physics students around the world Show more

What life-saving treatments are in the pipeline from the realm of medical tissue engineering? Show more

Psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison on the disastrous highs and lows of bipolar disorder, a condition that she has herself. Show more

AC Grayling speaks to Henry Markram, who is building a super computer which will virtually replicate the human brain. Show more

A star is calculated to fall into a black hole once every 10,000 years. Astrophysicist Thaisa Storchi Bergmann’s eureka moment came when she observed such an event. Show more

Svante Paabo thinks our ancient ancestors live on in most of us within our genes. But what can the genes of Neanderthals tell us about ourselves? Show more

Nasa engineer Ashitey Trebi-Ollenu explains how to drive a robot on Mars and reveals the secrets of the Mars Rover launches. Show more