
The Life Scientific
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future.

Episodes (258 available)

David Canter on how he came to found the field of 'investigative psychology'.
28 mins

Epigeneticist Edith Heard on decoding the details of how X chromosomes are expressed.
28 mins

Ginger Kerrick on training the first ISS crew and becoming the voice of Mission Control.
29 mins

Dean Lomax on his unconventional route into palaeontology and making BIG discoveries.
28 mins

Professor Helen Hastie on the positive future role for robots in our world.
28 mins

Epidemiologist Seth Berkley on a career trying to get vaccines to those in need.
28 mins

Hiranya Peiris on discovering the origin and evolution of the universe.
28 mins

Washington Yotto Ochieng reveals just how dependent we are on navigation systems like GPS.
28 mins

Atmospheric chemist Lucy Carpenter explains how natural marine processes impact ozone.
28 mins

Physiologist Jens Juul Holst on how gut hormone GLP-1 paved the way for weight loss drugs.
28 mins
