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What happens when music meets the animal mind?
Introducing: Season 2 of 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter
How animals make us smarter – we thought you might like to hear our brand new episode
Lost for words
David Shariatmadari explores the science of language, dementia and ageing
The Life Scientific: Dr Nira Chamberlain
Nira Chamberlain on how mathematics can solve real-world problems.
The Life Scientific: Professor Martin Sweeting
How Martin Sweeting made a satellite on his kitchen table
The Evidence: How will the pandemic end?
Keeping a lid on risks of new covid variants as vaccinated countries ease restrictions
Tamsin Edwards on the uncertainty in climate science
All climate change models are wrong. Tamsin Edwards tells Jim Al Khalili why.
Future vaccines
How the pandemic will change the vaccine landscape
Covid origins: The science
What the science says about the start of the pandemic
China's great science leap
Is China set to become the next science superpower?
Will China’s ambitions in space, quantum & biotech lead it to science super-power status?
The Evidence: To boost or not to boost?
The science and the ethics of vaccine booster shots
Earthshot 1
Winning ideas to improve the world around us.
Earthshot 2 – Tackling our energy crisis
Balancing our growing need for electricity while addressing climate change
Earthshot 3 - The prize winners
Five categories, a million pounds in each. Who has won the Earthshot prize?
Chilean mummies
Jane Chambers learns about the world's oldest examples of mummification
The Evidence: When misinformation kills
Tackling the “infodemic†– misinformation and Covid-19
Geoengineering The Planet
Geoengineering: can it work?
How we cool the planet with the latest geoengineering technologies.
Listening to coral reefs
Conservationist Rory Crawford meets the scientists surveying coral reefs using sound
Genetic dreams, genetic nightmares
The story of the controversial birth of genetic engineering in the 1970s.
The Evidence: Healthcare pushed out by the pandemic
The killer diseases ignored because of Covid-19
How genetic engineering became big business
Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares
Gene edited babies and gene drives to eradicate pests
The James Webb Space Telescope
A new giant space telescope that will show us the first stars that shone in the universe
The guiding hound
How do guide dogs know where they're going?
The Evidence: When will the pandemic end?
Lessons from Omicron to end the pandemic
The weirdness of water, Part 1 of 2
‘Please explain the weirdness of water?’ asks Neil Morton in Stirling in Scotland.
The weirdness of water, Part 2 of 2
Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry attempt to answer more questions on why water is weird
The painless heart
Why does my heart muscle not ache after exercise?
The slippery situation
'What is the most slippy thing in the world?' asks 8 year old Evelyn from London.