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The mind-numbing medicine

The Curious Cases team investigate the magical properties of anaesthetics.

• 28 mins

The impossible number

The Curious Cases team get to grips with the very real uses of imaginary numbers

• 27 mins

Lazy guide to exercise

What is the least amount of exercise you can do to still stay healthy?

• 27 mins

Maggots in medicine

The healthcare professionals who are turning to maggot therapy to help clean up wounds

• 28 mins

Food Insecurity

Explorations in the world of science.

• 27 mins

Fungal pandemic threat

Why invasive fungal infections are on the rise and a potential pandemic could be a threat

• 27 mins

Psychedelics

How psychedelics are shaking up psychiatry

• 27 mins

Sperm counts

Are sperm counts falling?

• 27 mins

Seeing more

The new technologies pushing the boundaries of what we can see, hear, smell, and feel

• 27 mins

Sound solutions

Prof Ben Garrod meets conservationists with sound solutions to protect animal habitats

• 27 mins

Smelly people

Prof Ben Garrod uses new tech to sniff things out, and explores extending our senses

• 27 mins

The Evidence: Exploring the concept of solastalgia

The feeling of pain or distress associated with environmental change close to your home

• 50 mins

Remote touch

Prof Ben Garrod investigates the technology trying to replicate human touch

• 27 mins

Bodies, brains and computers

How technology is blurring the line between our bodies, our brains, and computers

• 27 mins

In search of stardust

A jazz musician becomes a cosmic dust hunter

• 30 mins

The Life Scientific: Andre Geim

The Nobel prize-winning physicist talks about the world's strongest material, graphene

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Bruce Malamud

Bruce Malamud on modelling risk for natural hazards

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Anne Ferguson-Smith on unravelling epigenetics.

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Anne-Marie Imafidon

Anne-Marie Imafidon on fighting for diversity and equality in science.

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Harald Haas

Harald Haas on making waves in light communication.

• 27 mins

Metamorphosis: Jumping fleas and mighty mouthparts

Dr Erica McAlister uncovers a treasure trove of remarkable insects

• 27 mins

Metamorphosis: Drosophila melanogaster, hoverfly

Insights from the insect world including the Drosophila melanogaster and metamorphosis

• 27 mins

Metamorphosis: Blowflies and dazzling disguise

Blowflies may be reviled insects, but they are central to forensic entomology

• 27 mins

Metamorphosis: Soldier fly and desert beetle

Erica McAlister on the innocuous black soldier fly and the Namib desert beetle

• 27 mins

The Evidence: Is the world becoming more allergic?

Exploring the effect science has on the world around us

• 49 mins

Metamorphosis: Bee brains and the cockroach

Erica McAlister on the bee intellect, and the nervous system of the cockroach

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Deborah Greaves

Jim Al-Khalili speaks to Deborah Greaves about wave energy and her love of the sea.

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Gideon Henderson

Gideon Henderson on climate 鈥榗locks鈥� and dating ice ages.

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Chris Barratt

Chris Barratt on head-banging sperm and a future male contraceptive pill.

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Bahija Jallal

Bahija Jallal on the biotech revolution in cancer therapies

• 27 mins