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Geoengineering

Can putting chemicals in the stratosphere to block the sun stop global warming?

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Chronotypes

Why are some people 'early birds' while others are 'night owls'?

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Fixing Nitrogen

What are alternatives to the process that takes nitrogen from the air to make fertilizer?

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Saving the Oceans - Part One

Tackling the problems of population and rising seas for the Pacific islands of Kirabati

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Saving the Oceans - Part Two

Saving sharks and snails in the Pacific using modern technology and traditional practice

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Saving the Oceans - Part Three

Commercial fishing鈥檚 impact on bird evolution, and the threat of coral eating starfish

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Saving the Oceans - Part Four

Aboriginal knowledge and modern science helps to preserve Australia鈥檚 marine ecology

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Show me the Way to Go 麻豆约拍

How animals navigate, from homing instincts to smell maps and astronomy

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Hack my Hearing

Can hacking hearing aids create a new super sense for people with hearing loss?

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Fructose: the Bittersweet Sugar

Is fructose a 'toxic additive' or a healthy fruit sugar?

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The Biology of Freedom

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

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Inside the Shark's Mind

Can science stop sharks attacking humans?

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Vikram Patel

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

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Peter Higgs

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

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Whatever Happened to Biofuels?

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

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Whatever Happened to Biofuels - Part Two

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

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Sue Black

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

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Mark Miodownik

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

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Alf Adams

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

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Beauty and the Brain

Dr Tiffany Jenkins explores what neuroscience knows about art

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Taming the Sun

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

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Driverless Cars

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

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Driverless Cars

The engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves

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Ageing and the Brain

Do our mental powers really decline in old age?

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Janet Hemingway

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

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Anaesthesia

How do general anaesthetics work in the body?

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Swarming Robots

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

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What has Happened to El Nino?

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

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Professor Sir Michael Rutter

Child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter influenced understanding of autism and behaviour

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Rosetta Mission Arriving At Comet

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

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