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Chemistry

Bronwen Percival takes us from cheese production to the biochemistry underlying its notorious smell, and even some cheese

History of science Natural world

Zoologist and author Jules Howard explores evolution through a new lens: the egg.

Biology and the human body Brain

Dr Charan Ranganath, renowned neuroscientist and author, discusses how and why we remember.

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Biology and the human body Technology and engineering

Dr James Kinross chats to Lisa Derry about the impacts of AI on healthcare, from medical publishing to robotic surgery.

Technology and engineering

Discuss what ‘intelligence’ means to you, explore how artificial intelligence is designed, and train your very own AI model.

Maths

Yang-Hui He and Madeleine Hall from LIMS explore how our modern understanding of geometry has evolved — from Euclid’s postulates

Biology and the human body Technology and engineering

Dame Janet Thornton talks about AlphaFold, the AI programme that can determine a protein structure from its amino acids alone.

Maths Technology and engineering

Karan Mukhi talks how he is using algorithms to improve the use of renewable energy in the power grid.

Natural world

Camilla Molinari talks about how she is studying the rice blast fungus to limit its impact on food crops.

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