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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   Julie Williams

   Julie Williams on Alzheimer’s disease · Mar 2023

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   Kate Jones

   Kate Jones on bats and biodiversity · Jun 2015

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   Katherine Joy

   Katherine Joy on moon rock · Jul 2019

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   Kathy Willis

   Kathy Willis on botany · Nov 2015

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   Ken Gabriel

   Ken Gabriel, Why your Smartphone is Smart. · Mar 2019

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   Linda Partridge

   Linda Partridge · May 2013

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   Liz Seward

   Liz Seward and the dream of spaceflight · May 2020

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   Liz Sockett

   Liz Sockett on friendly killer bacteria · Apr 2017

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   Lucie Green

   Lucie Green on the sun · Oct 2017

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    Lynne Boddy

    Lynne Boddy on Fungi · Nov 2016

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    Margaret Boden

    Margaret Boden on artificial intelligence · Oct 2014

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    Marie Johnston

    Marie Johnston on health psychology and the power of behavioural shifts · Mar 2023

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    Mark Lythgoe

    Mark Lythgoe · Sep 2013

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    Mark O'Shea

    Mark O'Shea on close encounters with venomous snakes · Oct 2025

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    Mark Spencer

    Mark Spencer on how plants solve crimes · Mar 2021

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    Mark Walport

    Sir Mark Walport · Oct 2012

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    Martin Landray

    Sir Martin Landray on saving over a million lives · Jun 2022

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    Martin Siegert

    Martin Siegert · Aug 2012

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    Martin Sweeting

    Professor Martin Sweeting, inventor of microsatellites · Apr 2021

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    Mercedes Maroto-Valer

    Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful · Dec 2023

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    Michael Berry

    Sir Michael Berry on phenomena in physics' borderlands · Nov 2023

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    Michael Rutter

    Professor Sir Michael Rutter · Jun 2014

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    Michael Wooldridge

    Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots · Dec 2023

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    Mike Benton

    Mike Benton · Sep 2013

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    Mike Edmunds

    Mike Edmunds on decoding galaxies and ancient astronomical artefacts · Apr 2024

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    Mike Tipton

    Mike Tipton on how our bodies respond to extreme conditions · May 2021

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    Molly Stevens

    Molly Stevens · Nov 2011

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    Myles Allen

    Myles Allen on understanding climate change · Mar 2020

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    Naomi Climer

    Naomi Climer on engineering · Feb 2016

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    Neil Ferguson

    Neil Ferguson on modelling Covid-19 · Sep 2020

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    Neil Lawrence

    Neil Lawrence on taking down the 'digital oligarchy' and why we shouldn't fear AI · Jun 2025

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    Niamh Nic Daeid

    Niamh Nic Daeid on forensic science · Jul 2015

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    Nick Davies

    Nick Davies on cuckoos · Jun 2016

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    Nick Fraser

    Nick Fraser on Triassic reptiles · Apr 2017

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    Nick Longrich

    Nick Longrich on discovering new dinosaurs from overlooked bones · Apr 2024

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    Nicky Clayton

    Nicky Clayton · Nov 2011

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    Nigel Shadbolt

    Nigel Shadbolt on the worldwide web · Apr 2015

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    Nira Chamberlain

    Nira Chamberlain on how mathematics can solve real-world problems · May 2021

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    Noel Sharkey

    Noel Sharkey · Jan 2013

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    Ottoline Leyser

    Ottoline Leyser on how plants decide what to do · May 2017

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