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The Life Scientific

Autor: BBC Radio 4

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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  1. Robert Ballard on finding the Titanic and other deep-sea discoveries – The Life Scientific
  2. Gillian Forrester on gesturing gorillas, babbling babies and the origins of human language – The Life Scientific
  3. David Canter on how psychology can save lives and catch killers – The Life Scientific
  4. Edith Heard on unravelling the mystery of X-chromosome inactivation – The Life Scientific
  5. Ginger Kerrick on manning Nasa's Mission Control and getting to Mars – The Life Scientific
  6. Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers – The Life Scientific
  7. Helen Hastie on the future of human-robot relations – The Life Scientific
  8. Seth Berkley on the importance of vaccinating the world – The Life Scientific
  9. Hiranya Peiris on unravelling the story of the universe – The Life Scientific
  10. Washington Yotto Ochieng on the navigation tech that keeps our world moving – The Life Scientific
  11. Lucy Carpenter on how our oceans are destroying ozone – The Life Scientific
  12. Jens Juul Holst on the gut hormone discovery behind weight-loss drugs – The Life Scientific
  13. Jim Ashworth-Beaumont on how a near-fatal accident made him a better clinician – The Life Scientific
  14. Jehane Ragai on the science of authenticating artworks – The Life Scientific
  15. Tony Juniper on parrots, princes and environmental protection – The Life Scientific
  16. Pierre Friedlingstein on carbon’s pivotal role in climate change – The Life Scientific
  17. Julia Simner on tasty words and hearing colours – The Life Scientific
  18. Caroline Smith on meteorites and potential ancient life on Mars – The Life Scientific
  19. AP De Silva on building molecular fluorescence sensors for healthcare – The Life Scientific
  20. Peter Knight on quantum technologies – The Life Scientific
  21. Eleanor Schofield on conserving Tudor warship the Mary Rose – The Life Scientific
  22. George Church on reimagining woolly mammoths and virus-proofing humans – The Life Scientific
  23. Gareth Collett on a career in bomb disposal – The Life Scientific
  24. Sonia Gandhi on building model brains to tackle Parkinson’s disease – The Life Scientific
  25. Mark O'Shea on close encounters with venomous snakes – The Life Scientific
  26. Kevin Fong on medical planning for Mars and Earth-based emergencies – The Life Scientific
  27. Dame Pratibha Gai on training atoms to do what we want – The Life Scientific
  28. Catherine Heymans on the lighter side of the dark universe – The Life Scientific
  29. Tim Coulson on how predators shape ecosystems and evolution – The Life Scientific
  30. Claudia de Rham on playing with gravity – The Life Scientific