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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?

• 26 mins

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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Cosmology

Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang?

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Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part One

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

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Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part Two

The world needs new antibiotics: drug companies don鈥檛 want to make them. What next?

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Mum and Dad and Mum

Meet the girl with DNA from three people

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Biosafety

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

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Power Transmission

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

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Beyond the Abyss

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

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Preventing Disease in Animals

The pioneering genetic techniques to combat disease in our livestock

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Patients Doing It for Themselves

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

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Urine Trouble: What鈥檚 in our Water

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

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