The Life Scientific
Summary: Each week, Jim al-Khalili invites a leading scientist to tell us about their life and work. He'll talk to Nobel laureates as well as the next generation of beautiful minds to find out what inspires and motivates them and what their discoveries might do for us.
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Podcasts:
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Liz Stokoe about her research analysing real life conversations from first dates, neighbours and police interviews with suspected criminals.
Is it more reckless to eat a bacon sandwich everyday or go skydiving? Jim Al-Khalili talks to David Spiegelhalter about risk, uncertainty and the real odds behind everyday dangers.
Ewan Birney talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his work on deciphering the human genome and the recent controversy over claims about the demise of 'Junk' DNA
Prof Dame Athene Donald talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her work on the microscopic world inside everyday stuff and her passionate campaign to get more women in science.
Can we live healthier lives in old age? Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Dame Linda Partridge who studies the genetics of ageing, with the hope that one day she can slow it down.
Lord John Krebs left academia to run the Food Standards Agency. He tells Jim al-Khalili about life in the public sphere and dealing with foot and mouth disease, and badgers and TB
How did Britain become an island? Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Sanjeev Gupta about how he went from studying the bottom of the Channel to guiding NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell on her ground-breaking work on obesity, her discovery of an experimental treatment for stroke, and her leadership of the UK's largest university.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Sue Ion about working in the nuclear industry in the dark decades post Chernobyl and about why nuclear power has to part of our energy mix for the future.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Alan Watson about his quest to discover the source of cosmic rays, particles with energies millions of times greater thany anything produced at CERN
Jim Al-Khalili talks to breast cancer pioneer, Valerie Beral about her Million Women study and why she thinks a so-called 'vaccine' should be developed to prevent breast cancer.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Noel Sharkey about psychology and robots; and why he thinks artificial intelligence is a dangerous dream.
Should babies under two watch TV? Developmental psychologist, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, discusses how with the right subject matter a TV screen can be better for a baby than a book.
Robert Mair talks about tunnelling under Big Ben, fracking and engineering for the future.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Amoret Whitaker, one of only a handful of forensic entomologists in the UK, about how her detailed knowledge of insects helps the Police solve crimes.
