2018 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner, Sir Gregory Winter

Sir Gregory Winter, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

• 28 mins

Gwen Adshead on treating the minds of violent offenders

Gwen Adshead tells Jim Al-Khalili how she treats the minds of violent offenders.

• 28 mins

2018 Nobel Prize winner, Donna Strickland, on laser physics

Donna Strickland, the first woman to win a Physics Nobel Prize in 55 years.

• 29 mins

Ken Gabriel, Why your Smartphone is Smart.

How working with robots in the 1980s kicked off a microelectronics revolution.

• 27 mins

Corinne Le Quéré on the global carbon cycle

Professor Corinne Le Quéré talks to Jim Al-Khalili about tracing global carbon.

• 27 mins

Paul Davies on the origin of life and the evolution of cancer

Physicist Paul Davies on the origin of life, aliens and the evolution of cancer.

• 29 mins

Irene Tracey on pain in the brain

Irene Tracey tells Jim Al-Khalili how imaging the brain reveals how and why we feel pain.

• 28 mins

Richard Peto on why smoking kills but quitting saves lives

Epidemiologist Richard Peto on the links between tobacco, disease and early death

• 29 mins

Erica McAlister on the beauty of flies

Dr Erica McAlister talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the beautiful world of flies.

• 30 mins

Plastic pollution with Richard Thompson

How Richard Thompson alerted the world to the micro-plastics in the ocean.

• 27 mins

Ewine van Dishoeck on cosmic chemistry

Astrochemist Ewine van Dishoeck tells Jim Al-Khalili about the space between the stars.

• 27 mins

DNA detective Turi King

How geneticist Turi King identified the 500 yr old skeleton of Richard III.

• 28 mins

Katherine Joy on moon rock

Lunar geologist Katherine Joy tells Jim Al-Khalili why we need to go back to the moon.

• 29 mins

Robin Dunbar on why we have friends

Why do we have friends? Robin Dunbar tells Jim Al-Khalili.

• 27 mins

Jonathan Ball on his arms race against viruses

Virologist Jonathan Ball talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his quest to disarm killer viruses.

• 27 mins

Richard Wiseman on lying, luck and the paranormal

How to spot a liar. Professor Richard Wiseman tells Jim Al-Khalili

• 28 mins

Anne Magurran on how to measure biodiversity

Professor Anne Magurran on how nature is going the same way as our high streets.

• 27 mins

Martha Clokie on the viruses that could improve our health

Professor Martha Clokie on the viruses that destroy antibiotic-resistant bugs.

• 34 mins

Adrian Owen on scanning for awareness in the injured brain

Adrian Owen tells Jim Al-Khalili about his search for awareness in brain-injured patients.

• 28 mins

Saiful Islam on materials to power the 21st century

Professor Saiful Islam on the materials that make renewable energy possible.

• 28 mins

Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence

Demis Hassabis tells Jim Al-Khalili why he wants to create artificial intelligence.

• 32 mins

Elizabeth Fisher on chromosomes in mice and men

Elizabeth Fisher on studying chromosomal abnormalities in mice and men

• 28 mins

Patricia Wiltshire on how pollen can solve crimes.

Using pollen to solve crimes. Prof Pat Wiltshire talks to Jim Al Khalili.

• 33 mins

Susannah Maidment on stegosaurs

Susannah Maidment tells Jim how she came to be a world authority on stegosaurs

• 32 mins

Peter Fonagy on a revolution in mental health care

How Peter Fonagy changed the way we treat our mental health.

• 36 mins

2019 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, Sir Peter Ratcliffe

The 2019 Nobel Prize-winner Sir Peter Ratcliffe on living with low oxygen.

• 28 mins

Optical communications pioneer Polina Bayvel

The invention of the optical fibres that makes ultra-fast broadband possible.

• 33 mins

Myles Allen on understanding climate change

The physicist behind net zero. Prof Myles Allen talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

• 36 mins

Anya Hurlbert on seeing colour

Anya Hurlbert tells Jim Al-Khalili how colours are made in the mind.

• 28 mins

Matthew Cobb on how we detect smells

What maggots teach us about our sense of smell. Prof Matthew Cobb tells Jim Al-Khalli

• 29 mins