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Return to Mars

How will NASA鈥檚 latest robot rover search for life on Mars?

• 26 mins

The growling stomach

Why do our tummies rumble - and when they do, does it always mean we are hungry?

• 27 mins

The seeded cloud

Can we make it rain?

• 27 mins

The Evidence: Covid lessons for safe school reopening

Will schools and colleges reopening fuel Covid-19 spread?

• 50 mins

The sting in the tail

What鈥檚 the point of wasps?

• 27 mins

Megadrought in Chile

Why Chile has a megadrought

• 26 mins

The Evidence: Are national lockdowns evidence of policy failure?

Locked in the lockdown cycle 鈥� evidence for a more targeted response

• 51 mins

Anatomy Of Touch

Touch hunger

Why we鈥檙e starved of touch

• 26 mins

Anatomy Of Touch

Unwanted touch

How can we stop unwanted touch?

• 26 mins

Anatomy Of Touch

Affectionate touch

How we experience gentle touch

• 26 mins

Anatomy Of Touch

Digital touch

Can touch be replicated digitally?

• 26 mins

Birds: singing for survival

Birds are changing their tunes

• 26 mins

Broad spectrum

Helen Keen had a diagnosis of autism as an adult. She explores how it appears in women

• 26 mins

The end of everything

When and how is the universe going to end?

• 27 mins

The Evidence: Pandemic rules: follower or flouter?

Why a sense of 鈥渨e鈥� rather than 鈥淚鈥� makes us more likely to follow pandemic rules

• 51 mins

The Zedonk Problem

What are ligons and tigers? What is a species?

• 27 mins

The Space Burrito

Is there a point in space where the Sun could heat a burrito perfectly? And other puzzles

• 27 mins

Steve Haake

Steve Haake talks to Jim al-Khalili about how technology improves sporting ability

• 26 mins

Evolutionary biologist Alice Roberts

What can we learn from human remains? Alice Roberts talks bones with Jim Al Khalili

• 27 mins

Hopes and fears for Covid-19 vaccines

Vaccines and virus mutations

• 50 mins

Climate meltdown

Wildfires, floods, hurricanes made 2020 record breaking. What it says about climate change

• 37 mins

Marine conservationist Heather Koldewey

Saving seahorses and turning old fishing nets into luxury carpets.

• 27 mins

Astrophysicist Andy Fabian

Professor Andy Fabian on supermassive black holes and their dramatic hold over galaxies

• 27 mins

Plant scientist Dale Sanders

Why the world needs more plant scientists. Prof Dale Sanders talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

• 27 mins

Science Trumped

Let science speak, health expert Tony Fauci pleaded last week. So how was it sidelined?

• 33 mins

The Evidence: The Shapeshifting Virus

Will new vaccines work against the more infectious versions of the coronavirus?

• 50 mins

The power of celibacy

Lucy Cooke discovers why some species reproduce without sex or the need for males

• 27 mins

The power of one

Lucy Cooke explores why some species shirk company in favour of a solitary life

• 27 mins

The power of night

Lucy Cooke examines why it pays to stir when the sun goes down

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Giles Yeo

Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work.

• 27 mins