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Chemistry Climate

Podcast: Sustainable materials: Trick or treat? - with Mike Shaver

Mike Shaver unpacks whether our sustainable materials are actually sustainable and answers whether plastic can ever be fully

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Podcast Silhouette of a man running on the beach at sunset.
Biology and the human body

Podcast: The brain on exercise - with Dr Flaminia Ronca

Exercise neuroscientist Flaminia Ronca explains what actually happens to your brain when you exercise.

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Podcast Silhouette of a pregnant woman.
Biology and the human body History of science

Podcast: How women drove evolution - with Cat Bohannon

Cat Bohannon reveals insights from her book, Eve: How Women Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution, and highlights women’s pivotal

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Podcast Two pieces of cheese on top of a wooden cutting board.
Chemistry

Podcast: The science of cheese - with Bronwen Percival

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

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Podcast Eggs of a bird in a nest.
History of science Natural world

Podcast: Eggs, Evolution, and life on Earth - with Jules Howard

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

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Podcast A person lying in a neuron network, sculpted in snow.
Biology and the human body Brain

Podcast: The neuroscience of memory - with Charan Ranganath

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

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Podcast A linear accelerator (LINAC) set up to deliver stereotactic radiosurgery.
Biology and the human body Technology and engineering

Podcast: Ri on AI: The healthcare revolution – with Dr James Kinross

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

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Podcast A geometrical architectural pattern at the main court gallery of the Bahaouddin Naqshbandi Bukhari mausoleum.
Maths

Podcast: Geometry in Everyday Life - with the London Institute of Mathematical Sciences (LIMS)

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

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Podcast  Human C12orf29 protein 3D structure predicted by AlphaFold
Biology and the human body Technology and engineering

Podcast: Ri on AI: Understanding AlphaFold with Dame Janet Thornton

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

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Podcast Electric tower under blue sky and white clouds during daytime.
Maths Technology and engineering

Podcast: Tales from my PhD: Algorithms for energy efficiency – with Karan Mukhi

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

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