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Artificial Blood
Vivienne Parry meets scientists hoping to create artificial blood.
Artificial Photosynthesis
Prof Andrea Sella reports on the race to better nature at harnessing the sun's energy.
Future Flight: Prog 1 of 2
Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who will transform the way we fly around the world.
Future Flight: Prog 2 of 2
Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who are designing flying cars and green aircraft.
Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars
Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars 鈥 the search for extraterrestrial life steps up.
Saving the Ganges River Dolphin
On the Brahmaputra, counting and saving the Ganges River Dolphin.
The Life Scientific : Barbara Sahakian - Neuroscientist
Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian about her Life Scientific.
The Life Scientific : Lloyd Peck - Antarctic Scientist
Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders.
Frankenstein's Moon
Lunar and stellar insights on Hamlet and Frankenstein. Astronomy and literature collide.
Darwin's Tunes
Can you apply Darwin's theory of natural selection to music and create the perfect tune?
The sound of deafness
The science of hearing; cochlear implants; the sound of deafness
The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist
Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.
End of Drug Discovery
The long and expensive struggle to get medicines to market
Speeding up the drug development process to treat the major diseases facing us
The Age We Made - Part 1
Is humanity launching a new geological age on the Earth?
The Age We Made - Part 2
Are humans creating a new geological epoch through climate change and fossil fuels?
The Age We Made - Part 3
Are humans launching a new geological epoch through species extinction and farming?
The Age We Made
How might cities, mobile phones and humans become fossilised in years to come?
Hallucination 1/2
Understanding hallucination may provide new treatments for psychosis and schizophrenia
Hallucination 2/2
Geoff Watts explores the science of hallucination.
Last Man, First Scientist on the Moon
An interview with the only geologist to explore the moon's surface, Harrison Schmitt
Particle Physics
What are particle physicists doing after finding the Higgs boson?
Piltdown Man
Piltdown Man 鈥 could such a shocking case of scientific fraud happen again?
Why do women outlive men
Why do women live longer than men? Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea
John Gurdon
2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep
The ENCODE Project
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
Quantum Biology
What is quantum biology and why is it important?
Sexual Nature 1/3
Frolicking fossils and suggestive theories - the evolutionary history of sex
Sexual Nature 2/3
How did sex begin and why do some many species keep doing it?