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Tooth and Claw: Venomous snakes

Adam Hart discovers why rattlesnakes make good mothers and how deadly their venom is.

• 27 mins

Tooth and Claw: Army ant

Adam Hart explores the villain of many a jungle horror movie - the army ant.

• 27 mins

Tooth and Claw: Wolves

Wolves play a dark role in our imaginations but how does the real animal compare?

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA

The man who found a way to decode DNA at speed

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals

How did mammals come to dominate our planet? Prof Steve Brusatte talks to Jim Al-Khalili

• 27 mins

The Evidence: War trauma and mental health

The psychological suffering caused by the toxic stress of war and conflict

• 50 mins

Wild Inside: Jungle royalty - the Jaguar

Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside three animals from the big wild world.

• 27 mins

Wild Inside: The Burmese Python

Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the internal secrets to success of the Burmese Python

• 27 mins

Wild Inside: The Ocean Sunfish

Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish

• 27 mins

The Mystery of the Teenage Brain

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

• 27 mins

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