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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Why politics needs more scientists and engineers.
Jim Al-Khalili celebrates 10 years of The Life Scientific by asking some great thinkers.
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