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The weird waves of wi-fi

We use wi-fi every day, but do you know how it works?

• 27 mins

Surprising symmetries

Two eyes, two arms, two legs - we are roughly symmetrical on the outside. Why is that?

• 27 mins

The Shocking White Hair

Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.

• 27 mins

The Evidence: The nature of mental health

Plant power and mental health. Is a nature-cure a cure-all?

• 50 mins

The Turn of the Tide

Why are tide times and ranges so different around the UK, asks Lynn?

• 27 mins

The colour conundrum

How do we see colour and why are some people colour blind?

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Pete Smith

Restore peat bogs to mitigate climate change and improve bio-diversity.

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Jacinta Tan

How does a person with anorexia nervosa think? Jacinta Tan sheds light on this illness

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Adam Hart

When does a waggle dance become a tremble dance?

• 27 mins

The mysterious particles of physics, part 1

The machine that found the Higgs Boson 10 years ago is about to start digging deeper

• 30 mins

The mysterious particles of physics, part 2

Dark matter's dark secrets. Researchers seeking the unseen stuff that fills the universe

• 33 mins

The mysterious particles of physics, part 3

Roland Pease explores the 100-km atom smasher physicists are planning at CERN

• 27 mins

Plant based promises, rise of the plant based burger

Why do we need to eat more plant based foods? Giles Yeo looks at the alternatives.

• 27 mins

Plant based promises and sustainability

Giles Yeo looks at the sustainability of plant based products

• 28 mins

Plant based promises, diet and health

Giles learns to cook a plant based Thai green curry.

• 26 mins

Satellites versus the stars

What are the benefits and unintended consequences of thousands more satellites in space?

• 28 mins

How Covid changed science, part 1

What has been the impact of Covid on the practice of science?

• 27 mins

How Covid changed science, part 2

Professor Devi Sridhar investigates the impact of Covid on the practice of science

• 27 mins

How Covid Changed Science, part 3

Professor Devi Sridhar investigates the impact of Covid on the practice of science.

• 27 mins

Sir Martin Landray

Jim al-Khalili speaks to Sir Martin Landray about the world's largest Covid-19 drug trial.

• 27 mins

Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold on turning microbes into living factories.

• 27 mins

David Eagleman

Can we create new senses? Prof David Eagleman talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

• 27 mins

The Evidence: How pandemics end

Is it premature to say the pandemic is over?

• 50 mins

Chi Onwurah

Why politics needs more scientists and engineers.

• 27 mins

The Case of The Missing Gorilla

鈥淗ow can I be immersed in a book, and still notice my name?鈥� asks Charlotte.

• 27 mins

The Wild and Windy Tale

鈥淗ow do winds start and why do they stop?鈥� asks Georgina from the Isle of Wight.

• 28 mins

The suspicious smell

Why do our bodies smell? And does our smell influence how much we like each other?

• 28 mins

The problem of infinite Pi(e)

How did we discover Pi? How do we know that it鈥檚 infinite and never repeats? asks Alex

• 26 mins

The Riddle of Red-Eyes and Runny-Noses

Why do things like pet hair, peanuts and pollen can get our immune systems so riled up?

• 28 mins

The puzzle of the plasma doughnut

鈥淗ow does fusion work, and how can we do it safely on earth?鈥� asks Les Walker

• 27 mins