The Life Scientific

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Tim Peake in a special event recorded at London's Royal Society.

Environmental engineer Anna Korre on the race to decarbonise British industry.

Rosalie David on what mummies reveal about life, death and medicine in ancient Egypt

Climate scientist Peter Stott on taking on sceptics and modelling our climate impact.

Ijeoma Uchegbu on using nanoparticles to transform medicines.

Killer whale matriarchs, their dependent sons and the evolution of the menopause

Bill Gates talks philanthropy, the power of vaccines and dealing with conspiracy theories.

Astrophysicist Kip Thorne discusses his career, from researching black holes to hit movies

Sports scientist Vicky Tolfrey on supporting para athletes and working with ParalympicsGB.

Dawn Bonfield on how engineering can save the world - if it becomes more inclusive.

Raymond Schinazi on how he helped revolutionise treatments for viruses, from HIV to Herpes

Professor of Psychiatry Janet Treasure discusses her career researching eating disorders

Anne Child discusses her game-changing research into the genetic disorder Marfan syndrome.

Asteroseismologist Conny Aerts expalins what stellar oscillations can teach us about space

Mike Edmunds on the chemical make-up of galaxies and decoding the Antikythera Mechanism

Neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow on connections within - and between - brains.

Jim Al-Khalili talks to the president of the Nuclear Institute about all things nuclear.

Jim Al-Khalili talks dinosaurs and ‘one in a million year’ events with Dr Nick Longrich.

Forensic scientist Dr Sheila Willis on when the worlds of science and the law collide.

Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work.

Sir Jonathan Van-Tam discusses his work around infectious diseases and Covid-19.

Michael Wooldridge, professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, talks AI.

Jim Al-Khalili chats to a 'solutions scientist' about solving our CO2 problem.

Sir Harry Bhadeshia on his work in metallurgy and choreographing crystalline structures.

Jim Al-Khalili discusses population-wide health research with Professor Cathie Sudlow.

Professor Jim Al-Khalili meets one of Britain's greatest physicists, Sir Michael Berry

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Sarah Harper about societal ageing and falling fertility

Jim Al-Khalili discusses monkey infanticide and human parenting with Sarah Hrdy.

Physicist Edward Witten on M-Theory, the leading contender for a 'theory of everything'.

Jim Al-Khalili meets the Kew Gardens' director using bio-geography to protect biodiversity