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
Gareth Collett on a career in bomb disposal (21.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 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
- Doyne Farmer on making sense of chaos for a better world
- Tori Herridge on ancient dwarf elephants and frozen mammoths
- Sir Magdi Yacoub on pioneering heart transplant surgery
- Tim Peake on his journey to becoming an astronaut and science in space
- Anna Korre on capturing carbon dioxide and defying expectations
- Rosalie David on the science of Egyptian mummies
- Peter Stott on climate change deniers and Italian inspiration
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