Science Weekly

Professor of evolutionary biology Mark Pagel discusses how culture allowed humans to race ahead of other species more constrained by biological evolution

Joshua Foer describes what it's like to compete in the USA Memory Championship, and we meet the master of ceremonies at the Ig Nobel awards, Marc Abrahams

Alok Jha talks to Ian Stewart about his new book showing how hidden mathematical gems rule our lives

Three leading researchers and thinkers on consciousness discuss the emerging scientific understanding of this mysterious human faculty

This special edition of the show focuses on how science informs policy in the UK and features science minister David Willetts

Volcanologist Bill McGuire describes how rapid melting of glaciers and ice sheets as a result of climate change could trigger volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis

Where next for human-to-human transplants and intensive care? Plus, scientific censorship, and the Piltdown Man hoax

Alok Jha describes his visit to the European Southern Observatory in the Atacama desert, home of some of the world's most astonishing telescopes

Alok Jha delves through the Science Weekly archive to find some of our most memorable interviews

Dr Adam Rutherford introduces his new BBC documentary about the powerful new technology of synthetic biology

Alok Jha reports from Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday symposium at the University of Cambridge, with excerpts from Hawking's address on Sunday

Historian Edward J. Larson discusses the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition and we get a sneak preview of the forthcoming Scott exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London

Professor of psychology Bruce Hood introduces his Royal Institution Christmas lecture series 'Meet the Brain'

Among the high points of 2011 were Stephen Hawking on death, Simon Baron-Cohen on evil, the final shuttle mission and dark matter

LHC physicist Prof Jon Butterworth provides a super-condensed course in quantum mechanics, particle physics and the Standard Model