The Life Scientific
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future
Latest Episode
Pierre Friedlingstein on carbon’s pivotal role in climate change (09.12.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Julia Simner on tasty words and hearing colours
- Caroline Smith on meteorites and potential ancient life on Mars
- AP De Silva on building molecular fluorescence sensors for healthcare
- Peter Knight on quantum technologies
- Eleanor Schofield on conserving Tudor warship the Mary Rose
- George Church on reimagining woolly mammoths and virus-proofing humans
- Gareth Collett on a career in bomb disposal
- Sonia Gandhi on building model brains to tackle Parkinson’s disease
- Mark O'Shea on close encounters with venomous snakes
- Kevin Fong on medical planning for Mars and Earth-based emergencies
- Dame Pratibha Gai on training atoms to do what we want
- Catherine Heymans on the lighter side of the dark universe
- Tim Coulson on how predators shape ecosystems and evolution
- Claudia de Rham on playing with gravity
- Neil Lawrence on taking down the 'digital oligarchy' and why we shouldn't fear AI
- Liz Morris on Antarctic adventures and the melting polar ice sheets
- Anthony Fauci on a medical career navigating pandemics and presidents
- Brian Schmidt on Nobel Prize-winning supernovae and the joys of making wine
- Jacqueline McKinley on unearthing bones and stories at Britain's ancient burial sites
- Jonathan Shepherd on a career as a crime-fighting surgeon
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