The Biology of Freedom

Is free will unique to humans or a biological trait that evolved over time?

• 26 mins

Inside the Shark's Mind

Can science stop sharks attacking humans?

• 26 mins

Vikram Patel

Jim al-Khalili discusses global mental health with psychiatrist Professor Vikram Patel

• 26 mins

Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs opens up to Jim Al-Khalili about the Higgs boson.

• 26 mins

Whatever Happened to Biofuels?

Can we make biofuels from the sugars in the inedible parts of plants?

• 26 mins

Whatever Happened to Biofuels - Part Two

Gaia Vince asks if we can ever run our vehicles on biofuels from algae or bacteria.

• 26 mins

Sue Black

Forensic scientist Sue Black on the clues she uses to identify human bodies

• 26 mins

Mark Miodownik

Mark Miodownik talks nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials with Jim Al-Khalili.

• 26 mins

Alf Adams

Alf Adams remembers his small idea that changed the world, with Jim Al-Khalili.

• 26 mins

Beauty and the Brain

Dr Tiffany Jenkins explores what neuroscience knows about art

• 26 mins

Taming the Sun

ITER, the world's effort to harness nuclear fusion, and the most complex experiment ever

• 26 mins

Driverless Cars

The future cars with sensors that can send messages to other cars, trucks and pedestrians

• 26 mins

Driverless Cars

The engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves

• 26 mins

Ageing and the Brain

Do our mental powers really decline in old age?

• 26 mins

Janet Hemingway

Janet Hemingway on malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance with Jim al-Khalili

• 26 mins

Anaesthesia

How do general anaesthetics work in the body?

• 26 mins

Swarming Robots

Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots

• 26 mins

What has Happened to El Nino?

What is making this year’s predicted El Nino so hard to forecast?

• 26 mins

Professor Sir Michael Rutter

Child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter influenced understanding of autism and behaviour

• 26 mins

Rosetta Mission Arriving At Comet

Orbiting and landing on a comet. The most daring science space mission ever?

• 26 mins

Cosmology

Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang?

• 26 mins

Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part One

Why our antibiotics are failing. Is this the end of modern medicine?

• 26 mins

Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part Two

The world needs new antibiotics: drug companies don’t want to make them. What next?

• 26 mins

Mum and Dad and Mum

Meet the girl with DNA from three people

• 26 mins

Biosafety

As mistakes involving deadly pathogens come to light, what lessons will be learnt?

• 26 mins

Power Transmission

Could super grids supplying DC electricity be the solution to rising demand for energy?

• 26 mins

Beyond the Abyss

Exploring the ocean's deepest realm - the Hadal zone, 6,000 to 11,000 metres down

• 26 mins

Preventing Disease in Animals

The pioneering genetic techniques to combat disease in our livestock

• 26 mins

Patients Doing It for Themselves

How patients are taking control of their own treatment and their own clinical trials

• 26 mins

Urine Trouble: What’s in our Water

What happens to the medicines we take after they leave our body?

• 26 mins