The Life Scientific

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

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Every guest on The Life Scientific

346 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Julia Shaw

   Julia Shaw on memories that aren't true · Feb 2022

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   Demis Hassabis

   Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence · Nov 2019

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   Sean Carroll

   Sean Carroll on how time and space began · Feb 2017

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   Brian Cox

   Brian Cox on quantum mechanics · Sep 2014

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   Brian Greene

   Brian Greene on how the universe is made of string · Apr 2020

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   Nick Lane

   Dr Nick Lane on the origin of life on earth · Feb 2016

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   Martin Rees

   Martin Rees · Mar 2012

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   David Eagleman

   David Eagleman on why reality is an illusion · Sep 2021

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   Richard Dawkins

   Richard Dawkins · Sep 2012

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    Roger Penrose

    Roger Penrose on black holes · Nov 2016

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    Anil Seth

    Anil Seth on consciousness · Jun 2015

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    Robin Dunbar

    Robin Dunbar on why we have friends · Jul 2019

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    Matthew Cobb

    Matthew Cobb on how we detect smells · Mar 2020

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    Elizabeth Stokoe

    Elizabeth Stokoe · Jun 2013

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    Steven Pinker

    Steven Pinker · Oct 2011

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    Robert Plomin

    Robert Plomin on the genetics of intelligence · Oct 2015

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    Adam Hart

    Adam Hart on ants, bees and insect burgers · Jun 2022

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    Bill Gates

    Bill Gates on vaccines, conspiracy theories and the pleasures of pickleball · Aug 2024

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    Jane Goodall

    Jane Goodall on living with wild chimpanzees · Jun 2020

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    Suzanne O'Sullivan

    Detective of the mind Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan · Nov 2018

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    Jared Diamond

    Jared Diamond · Dec 2012

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    Steve Brusatte

    Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals · Mar 2022

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    Chris Jackson

    Chris Jackson on sustainable geology · Jan 2021

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    Daniel Dennett

    Daniel Dennett on the evolution of the human brain · Apr 2017

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    Eben Upton

    Eben Upton on Raspberry Pi · Jan 2018

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    Frances Arnold

    Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize · Sep 2022

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    Jennifer Doudna

    Jennifer Doudna · Sep 2017

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    Lawrence Krauss

    Lawrence Krauss on dark energy · May 2016

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    Seth Berkley

    Seth Berkley on the importance of vaccinating the world · May 2026

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    Alice Roberts

    Alice Roberts on bones · Aug 2020

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    Andre Geim

    Andre Geim on levitating frogs, graphene and 2D materials · May 2023

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    Angela Gallop

    Angela Gallop · Mar 2012

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    Ann Dowling

    Dame Ann Dowling · Aug 2012

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    Athene Donald

    Athene Donald · Jun 2013

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    Carlo Rovelli

    Carlo Rovelli on why time is not what it seems · May 2018

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    Carlos Frenk

    Carlos Frenk on dark matter · Jul 2015

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    Carol Black

    Dame Carol Black on public health · Oct 2015

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    Carol Robinson

    Carol Robinson on chemistry · Jul 2014

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    Clive Oppenheimer

    Clive Oppenheimer on the volcanic offerings of our angry earth · Dec 2018

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    Colin Blakemore

    Colin Blakemore · Nov 2011

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