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The Life Scientific: Kevin Fong
Nov 10, 2025There can't be many people in the world who've saved lives in hospital emergency rooms and also helped care for the wellbeing of astronauts in space – but Kevin Fong’s career has followed a singular p...
The Life Scientific: Dame Pratibha Gai
Nov 03, 2025Chemical reactions are the backbone of modern society: the energy we use, the medicines we take, our housing materials, even the foods we eat, are created by reacting different substances together. If...
The Life Scientific: Catherine Heymans
Oct 27, 2025Have you ever considered the lighter side of dark matter? Comedy has proved an unexpectedly succesful way to engage people with science - as today's guest knows first-hand. Astrophysicist Catherine He...
The Life Scientific: Tim Coulson
Oct 20, 2025As a young man, traveling in Africa, Tim Coulson - now Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford - became seriously ill with malaria and was told a second bout would probably kill him. Aged onl...
The Life Scientific: Brian Schmidt
Oct 13, 2025Have you ever pondered the fact that the universe is expanding? And not only that, it's expanding at an increasing speed - meaning everything around us is getting further and further away? If that is...
The Life Scientific: Jane Goodall
Oct 06, 2025The celebrated primatologist Jane Goodall died last week at the age of 91. In tribute, we’re re-sharing this interview from 2020, where she reflects on the years she spent living with the wild chimpan...
The Life Scientific: Jacqueline McKinley
Sep 29, 2025How much information can you extract from a burnt fragment of human bone? Quite a lot, it turns out - not only about the individual, but also their broader lives and communities; and these are the sto...
The Life Scientific: Jonathan Shepherd
Sep 22, 2025Surgeons often have to deal with the consequences of violent attacks - becoming all too familiar with patterns of public violence, and peaks around weekends, alcohol-infused events and occasions that ...
The Life Scientific: Doyne Farmer
Sep 15, 2025Doyne Farmer is something of a rebel. Back in the seventies, when he was a student, he walked into a casino in Las Vegas, sat down at a roulette table and beat the house. To anyone watching the wheel ...
The Life Scientific: Tori Herridge
Sep 08, 2025Elephants are the largest living land mammal and today our planet is home to three species: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. But a hundred thousand years...