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Trauma: The Fight for Life
How modern trauma medicine evolved from conflict and catastrophe to help save lives
27 Oct 2014,26 mins
Brian Cox
Physicist and media star Brian Cox on fame and quantum mechanics
20 Oct 2014,26 mins
Urine Trouble: What’s in our Water
What happens to the medicines we take after they leave our body?
13 Oct 2014,26 mins
Patients Doing It for Themselves
How patients are taking control of their own treatment and their own clinical trials
06 Oct 2014,26 mins
Preventing Disease in Animals
The pioneering genetic techniques to combat disease in our livestock
29 Sep 2014,26 mins
Beyond the Abyss
Exploring the ocean's deepest realm - the Hadal zone, 6,000 to 11,000 metres down
22 Sep 2014,26 mins
Power Transmission
Could super grids supplying DC electricity be the solution to rising demand for energy?
15 Sep 2014,26 mins
Biosafety
As mistakes involving deadly pathogens come to light, what lessons will be learnt?
08 Sep 2014,26 mins
Mum and Dad and Mum
Meet the girl with DNA from three people
01 Sep 2014,26 mins
Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part Two
The world needs new antibiotics: drug companies don’t want to make them. What next?
25 Aug 2014,26 mins
Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part One
Why our antibiotics are failing. Is this the end of modern medicine?
18 Aug 2014,26 mins
Cosmology
Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang?
11 Aug 2014,26 mins
Rosetta Mission Arriving At Comet
Orbiting and landing on a comet. The most daring science space mission ever?
04 Aug 2014,26 mins
Professor Sir Michael Rutter
Child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter influenced understanding of autism and behaviour
28 Jul 2014,26 mins
What has Happened to El Nino?
What is making this year’s predicted El Nino so hard to forecast?
21 Jul 2014,26 mins
Swarming Robots
Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots
14 Jul 2014,26 mins
Anaesthesia
How do general anaesthetics work in the body?
07 Jul 2014,26 mins
Janet Hemingway
Janet Hemingway on malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance with Jim al-Khalili
30 Jun 2014,26 mins
Ageing and the Brain
Do our mental powers really decline in old age?
23 Jun 2014,26 mins
Driverless Cars
The engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves
16 Jun 2014,26 mins
Driverless Cars
The future cars with sensors that can send messages to other cars, trucks and pedestrians
09 Jun 2014,26 mins
Taming the Sun
ITER, the world's effort to harness nuclear fusion, and the most complex experiment ever
02 Jun 2014,26 mins
Beauty and the Brain
Dr Tiffany Jenkins explores what neuroscience knows about art
26 May 2014,26 mins
Alf Adams
Alf Adams remembers his small idea that changed the world, with Jim Al-Khalili.
19 May 2014,26 mins
Mark Miodownik
Mark Miodownik talks nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials with Jim Al-Khalili.
12 May 2014,26 mins
Sue Black
Forensic scientist Sue Black on the clues she uses to identify human bodies
05 May 2014,26 mins
Whatever Happened to Biofuels - Part Two
Gaia Vince asks if we can ever run our vehicles on biofuels from algae or bacteria.
28 Apr 2014,26 mins
Whatever Happened to Biofuels?
Can we make biofuels from the sugars in the inedible parts of plants?
21 Apr 2014,26 mins
Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs opens up to Jim Al-Khalili about the Higgs boson.
14 Apr 2014,26 mins
Vikram Patel
Jim al-Khalili discusses global mental health with psychiatrist Professor Vikram Patel
07 Apr 2014,26 mins