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The suspicious smell

Why are some smells so nasty and others so pleasant? Rutherford and Fry inhale the science of...

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The Wild and Windy Tale

How do winds start and why do they stop? asks Georgina from the Isle of Wight. What's more,...

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The Case of The Missing Gorilla

DO WE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? Good! But how does that work!? Our intrepid science sleuths explore...

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Chi Onwurah

Chi Onwurah tells Jim Al-Khalili why she wanted to become a telecoms engineer and why engineering...

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The Evidence: How pandemics end

Six and a half million dead. More than a hundred times that infected. The Covid-19 pandemic has...

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David Eagleman

Literature student turned neuroscientist, Prof David Eagleman, tells Jim Al-Khalili about his...

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Frances Arnold

Nobel Prize winning chemist Frances Arnold left home at 15 and went to school ‘only when she felt...

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Sir Martin Landray

Who could forget the beginning of 2020, when a ‘mysterious viral pneumonia’ emerged in the...

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How Covid Changed Science, part 3

In the third and final part of our series How Covid Changed Science, Devi Sridhar Professor of...

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How Covid Changed Science, part 2

In the second of our series How Covid Changed Science, Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Health...

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How Covid changed science, part 1

The global Covid pandemic was a wake up call for the scientific community. With remarkable speed...

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Satellites versus the stars

If you look up into the night sky, there are around 7,000 active satellites orbiting the Earth....

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Plant based promises, diet and health

Giles Yeo learns how to make a Thai green curry with Meera Sodha. This is a recipe without meat...

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Plant based promises, sustainability

In Plant Based Promises, Giles Yeo a foodie and academic at Cambridge University, asks how...

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Plant based promises, rise of the plant based burger

In Plant Based Promises, foodie, researcher and broadcaster Giles Yeo looks at the science behind...

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The mysterious particles of physics, part 3

The smaller the thing you look at, the bigger the microscope you need to use. That’s why the...

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The mysterious particles of physics, part 2

Episode 2: Lost in the Dark Physics is getting a good understanding of atoms, but embarrassingly...

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The Mysterious Particles of Physics (1/3)

The machine that discovered the Higgs Boson 10 years ago is about to restart after a massive...

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The Life Scientific: Adam Hart

Ant-loving professor, Adam Hart, shares his passion for leaf cutting ants with Jim Al Khalili....

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The Life Scientific: Jacinta Tan

When a person with severe anorexia nervosa refuses food, the very treatment they need to survive,...

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