The Life Scientific
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future.
Episodes (262 available)
Ecologist Tom Hart on monitoring wildlife populations remotely to track key patterns.
Asel Sartbaeva on protecting vaccines with a bespoke coat of silica, found in beach sand.
Oceanographer Bob Ballard discusses his 60-year career in deep-sea exploration.
Professor Gillian Forrester on how we became the walking, talking great apes we are today.
David Canter on how he came to found the field of 'investigative psychology'.
Epigeneticist Edith Heard on decoding the details of how X chromosomes are expressed.
Ginger Kerrick on training the first ISS crew and becoming the voice of Mission Control.
29 mins
Dean Lomax on his unconventional route into palaeontology and making BIG discoveries.
28 mins
Professor Helen Hastie on the positive future role for robots in our world.
28 mins
Epidemiologist Seth Berkley on a career trying to get vaccines to those in need.
28 mins