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Brain

Podcast: Anatomy of a conversation - with Elizabeth Stokoe

This month, Elizabeth Stokoe explains how conversation analysis can produce a scientific understanding of talk.

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Podcast Giant spider and child figure

Art, culture and society

Podcast: Monsters, science and society - with Expert Panel

Frankenstein’s creature is a classic example of a monster in popular culture. But what can fictional beings tell us about the

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Podcast Playing chess

Art, culture and society

Podcast: The science of success (and failure) – with Matthew Syed

How can you turn failure into success? This month, journalist and table-tennis champion Matthew Syed will explain the science of

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Podcast first launch of SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket

Physics

Podcast: Moon, Mars and beyond - with Astronaut Al Worden and Experts Chris Welch and Stuart Eves

Where should humans inhabit next? The Moon? Mars? Or further beyond?

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Podcast Sculpture of Charles Darwin

Biology and the human body

Podcast: The Story of Life – with Matthew Cobb and Nick Lane

This month, Matthew Cobb and Nick Lane unravel the tangled story of DNA, and why life began in the first place.

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Podcast Moving walkway

Art, culture and society

Podcast: What's next? Predictions about our future - with expert panel

What does the future have in store? Medicine, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy production and genetic engineering are

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Podcast Plasma ball

Technology and engineering

Podcast: How does science actually work? – with Jeremy Baumberg

We take the advance of science as given - but how does science really work? This month, Jeremy Baumberg sheds light on a

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Podcast Man covered in sticky notes

Biology and the human body

Podcast: The Science of stress

This month, Vincent Walsh hosts an expert panel of Joe Herbert, Julie Turner Cobb, and Shane O’Mara, to explore the science of

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Podcast Three-dimensional landscape of the genome

Biology and the human body

Podcast: The gene machine - with Venki Ramakrishnan

This month, the Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan in conversation with Vivienne Parry, tells the story of the race to

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Podcast Welder

Technology and engineering

Podcast: Make, think, imagine: engineering a brighter future - with Lord Browne and Vivienne Parry

Why has engineering always been the backbone of civilisation? And why do we enjoy making things?

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