Biology
CrowdScience. How many flies have ever existed? Audio, 31 minutes
Flies are everywhere. But just how many have ever lived?
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- Posted21 June 2024
Witness History. Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1992 a student found a set of fossilised footprints from the earliest vertebrate
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- Posted19 September 2023
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- Posted14 July 2023
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- Posted18 May 2023
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.
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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.
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The Life Scientific. Why study sewage? Audio, 29 minutes
Leon Barron tells Jim Al-Khalili how he developed an intense interest in sewage.
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CrowdScience. Why are fish fish-shaped? Audio, 32 minutes
There are over 30, 000 species of fish – are they really all a similar shape?
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- 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
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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.
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Discovery. Wild Inside: The Burmese Python. Audio, 27 minutes
Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the internal secrets to success of the Burmese Python
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Discovery. Wild Inside: Jungle royalty - the Jaguar. Audio, 27 minutes
Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside three animals from the big wild world.
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Discovery. The Life Scientific: Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA. Audio, 28 minutes
The man who found a way to decode DNA at speed
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- 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.
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Discovery. The Evidence: Drug-resistant superbugs. Audio, 50 minutes
The silent pandemic - drug resistant infections threaten the future of modern medicine
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Discovery. The painless heart. Audio, 27 minutes
Why does my heart muscle not ache after exercise?
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The Spark. Carole Hooven and testosterone. Audio, 28 minutes
Evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven on the impact of testosterone. With Helen Lewis.
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