Biology
The Life Scientific. Rebecca Kilner on beetle behaviours and evolution. Audio, 29 minutes
How corpse-based beetles can answer long-standing questions about human evolution.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Life Scientific. A passion for fruit flies. Audio, 28 minutes
Bambos Kyriacou tells Jim Al-Khalili why he studies the behaviour of fruit flies.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Life Scientific. Why study sewage? Audio, 29 minutes
Leon Barron tells Jim Al-Khalili how he developed an intense interest in sewage.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
CrowdScience. Why are fish fish-shaped? Audio, 32 minutes
There are over 30, 000 species of fish – are they really all a similar shape?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted16 July 2022
The Forum. Radio waves and plants: The life of JC Bose. Audio, 39 minutes
How physics and biology entwined in JC Bose's search for the unity of all life on Earth
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
CrowdScience. Why do bright lights make me sneeze? Audio, 38 minutes
From sneezes and snot to saliva, we delve into the bodily fluids found in our faces.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Discovery. Wild Inside: The Burmese Python. Audio, 27 minutes
Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the internal secrets to success of the Burmese Python
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Discovery. Wild Inside: Jungle royalty - the Jaguar. Audio, 27 minutes
Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside three animals from the big wild world.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Discovery. The Life Scientific: Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA. Audio, 28 minutes
The man who found a way to decode DNA at speed
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted12 March 2022
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- Posted12 March 2022
The Life Scientific. Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals. Audio, 40 minutes
How did mammals come to dominate our planet? Prof Steve Brusatte talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Discovery. The Evidence: Drug-resistant superbugs. Audio, 50 minutes
The silent pandemic - drug resistant infections threaten the future of modern medicine
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Discovery. The painless heart. Audio, 27 minutes
Why does my heart muscle not ache after exercise?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Spark. Carole Hooven and testosterone. Audio, 28 minutes
Evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven on the impact of testosterone. With Helen Lewis.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Forum. Algae: Slime life. Audio, 39 minutes
The evolution of life’s original alchemists
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted1 December 2021
Bitesize Daily: 5-7 Year Olds. Science 6-7 Year-Olds, Living Things. Video, 20 minutes
Learn about the life cycles, habitats and food chains of living things.
- AttributionBBC Bitesize
- Available for over a year
Bitesize Daily: 5-7 Year Olds. Science 6-7 Year-Olds, How Animals Grow. Video, 19 minutes
Learn about animal babies, eggs and big changes.
- AttributionBBC Bitesize
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted6 November 2021
- AttributionBBC Two
The Life Scientific. Tim Clutton-Brock on meerkats, red deer and evolution. Audio, 29 minutes
What makes meerkats so cooperative and why do sons cost mothers more than daughters?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
