The Life Scientific: Dr Nira Chamberlain

Nira Chamberlain on how mathematics can solve real-world problems.

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Professor Martin Sweeting

How Martin Sweeting made a satellite on his kitchen table

• 27 mins

The Evidence: How will the pandemic end?

Keeping a lid on risks of new covid variants as vaccinated countries ease restrictions

• 48 mins

Tamsin Edwards on the uncertainty in climate science

All climate change models are wrong. Tamsin Edwards tells Jim Al Khalili why.

• 27 mins

Future vaccines

How the pandemic will change the vaccine landscape

• 33 mins

Covid origins: The science

What the science says about the start of the pandemic

• 39 mins

China's great science leap

Is China set to become the next science superpower?

• 27 mins

China's great science leap

Will China’s ambitions in space, quantum & biotech lead it to science super-power status?

• 27 mins

The Evidence: To boost or not to boost?

The science and the ethics of vaccine booster shots

• 50 mins

Earthshot 1

Winning ideas to improve the world around us.

• 27 mins

Earthshot 2 – Tackling our energy crisis

Balancing our growing need for electricity while addressing climate change

• 27 mins

Earthshot 3 - The prize winners

Five categories, a million pounds in each. Who has won the Earthshot prize?

• 27 mins

Chilean mummies

Jane Chambers learns about the world's oldest examples of mummification

• 26 mins

The Evidence: When misinformation kills

Tackling the “infodemic” – misinformation and Covid-19

• 50 mins

Geoengineering The Planet

Geoengineering: can it work?

• 27 mins

Geoengineering The Planet

How we cool the planet with the latest geoengineering technologies.

• 27 mins

Listening to coral reefs

Conservationist Rory Crawford meets the scientists surveying coral reefs using sound

• 27 mins

Genetic dreams, genetic nightmares

The story of the controversial birth of genetic engineering in the 1970s.

• 27 mins

The Evidence: Healthcare pushed out by the pandemic

The killer diseases ignored because of Covid-19

• 50 mins

Genetic dreams, genetic nightmares

How genetic engineering became big business

• 27 mins

Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares

Gene edited babies and gene drives to eradicate pests

• 27 mins

The James Webb Space Telescope

A new giant space telescope that will show us the first stars that shone in the universe

• 33 mins

The guiding hound

How do guide dogs know where they're going?

• 27 mins

The Evidence: When will the pandemic end?

Lessons from Omicron to end the pandemic

• 50 mins

The weirdness of water, Part 1 of 2

‘Please explain the weirdness of water?’ asks Neil Morton in Stirling in Scotland.

• 27 mins

The weirdness of water, Part 2 of 2

Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry attempt to answer more questions on why water is weird

• 27 mins

The painless heart

Why does my heart muscle not ache after exercise?

• 27 mins

The slippery situation

'What is the most slippy thing in the world?' asks 8 year old Evelyn from London.

• 27 mins

The venomous vendetta

Will a venomous snake die if it bites itself? asks Janni in Amsterdam.

• 27 mins

The Evidence: Africa, the pandemic and healthcare independence

The new momentum for vaccines, medicines and tests to be made for Africa in Africa

• 50 mins