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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   Anthony Fauci

   Anthony Fauci on a medical career navigating pandemics and presidents · May 2025

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   Chris Elliott

   Chris Elliott on fighting food fraud · Jan 2023

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   David Nutt

   David Nutt · Sep 2012

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   Giles Yeo

   Giles Yeo on how our genes can make us fat · Jan 2021

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   Kip Thorne

   Kip Thorne on black holes, Nobel Prizes and taking physics to Hollywood · Aug 2024

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   Richard Wiseman

   Richard Wiseman on lying, luck and the paranormal · Oct 2019

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   Sophie Scott

   Sophie Scott · Sep 2013

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   J. Doyne Farmer

   Doyne Farmer on making sense of chaos for a better world · Apr 2025

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   Richard Thompson

   Plastic pollution with Richard Thompson · Jun 2019

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    Claudia de Rham

    Claudia de Rham on playing with gravity · Jun 2025

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    Clifford Johnson

    Clifford Johnson on making sense of black holes and movie plots · Jan 2023

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    Frans de Waal

    Frans de Waal on chimpanzees · Oct 2016

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    Neil Degrasse Tyson

    Neil de Grasse Tyson on Pluto · Dec 2016

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    Paul Davies

    Paul Davies on the origin of life and the evolution of cancer · Mar 2019

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    Tim O'Brien

    Tim O'Brien on transient stars and science and music festivals · May 2017

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    George Church

    George Church on reimagining woolly mammoths and virus-proofing humans · Oct 2025

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    Conny Aerts

    Conny Aerts on star vibrations and following your dreams · Jun 2024

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    Eugenia Cheng

    Eugenia Cheng on the mathematics of mathematics · Jan 2018

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    Chris Lintott

    Chris Lintott · Jun 2014

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    Lloyd Peck

    Lloyd Peck · May 2012

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    Lucy Carpenter

    Lucy Carpenter on how our oceans are destroying ozone · Apr 2026

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    Mark Miodownik

    Mark Miodownik · Mar 2014

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    Martha Clokie

    Martha Clokie on the viruses that could improve our health · Oct 2019

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    Matt Taylor

    Matt Taylor on the Rosetta space mission · Mar 2015

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    Mike Stratton

    Mike Stratton and cancer genes · Nov 2018

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    Sandy Knapp

    Sandy Knapp · Jun 2014

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    Steve Haake

    Steve Haake on technology, sport and health · Sep 2020

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    Trevor Cox

    Trevor Cox on sound · Jul 2016

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    AP De Silva

    AP De Silva on building molecular fluorescence sensors for healthcare · Nov 2025

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    Adrian Owen

    Adrian Owen on scanning for awareness in the injured brain · Oct 2019

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    Adrian Smith

    Adrian Smith on the power of Bayesian statistics · Feb 2023

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    Adrian Thomas

    Adrian Thomas on the mechanics of flight · Oct 2017

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    Ailie MacAdam

    Ailie MacAdam on the biggest construction project in Europe · Mar 2022

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    Alan Watson

    Alan Watson · Feb 2013

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    Alan Winfield

    Alan Winfield on robot ethics · Feb 2017

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    Alastair Hay

    Banning chemical weapons with Alastair Hay · Nov 2018

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    Alex Antonelli

    Alex Antonelli on learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate change · Sep 2023

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    Alf Adams

    Alf Adams · Mar 2014

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    Alison Smith

    Alison Smith on algae · Jan 2017

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    Alison Woollard

    Alison Woollard on what she has learnt from mutant worms · Feb 2017

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