The Life Scientific - Dawn Bonfield

18.11.2024 • 00:26:28

The engineering industry, like many other STEM sectors, has a problem with diversity: one that Dawn Bonfield believes we can and must fix, if we're to...

The Life Scientific: Raymond Schinazi

11.11.2024 • 00:26:28

In recent decades, we have taken huge steps forward in treating formerly fatal viruses - with pharmacological breakthroughs revolutionising treatment ...

The Life Scientific - Janet Treasure

04.11.2024 • 00:26:28

From anorexia nervosa to binge-eating, eating disorders are potentially fatal conditions that are traditionally very difficult to diagnose and treat -...

The Life Scientific: Anne Child

28.10.2024 • 00:26:29

Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder that makes renders the body’s connective tissues incredibly fragile; this can weaken the heart, leading to poten...

The Life Scientific: Conny Aerts

21.10.2024 • 00:26:28

Many of us have heard of seismology, the study of earthquakes; but what about asteroseismology, focusing on vibrations in stars? Conny Aerts is a pro...

The Life Scientific: Dr Nira Chamberlain

14.10.2024 • 00:26:29

When does a crowd of people become unsafe? How well will the football team Aston Villa do next season? When is it cost-effective to replace a kitchen?...

The Beaches

07.10.2024 • 00:26:29

A top secret little-known mission that changed the outcome of World War II. Not Alan Turing's Enigma code-breaking mission but a daring foray, conduct...

Protein: Powerhouse or piffle?

30.09.2024 • 00:26:29

Take a trip around the supermarket and you'll see shelves of products claiming to be 'high in protein'. Scroll through your social media and you'll fi...

The Life Scientific: Mike Edmunds

23.09.2024 • 00:26:28

What is the universe made of? Where does space dust come from? And how exactly might one go about putting on a one-man-show about Sir Isaac Newton? T...

Hannah Critchlow

16.09.2024 • 00:26:28

With 86 billion nerve cells joined together in a network of 100 trillion connections, the human brain is the most complex system in the known universe...