The Life Scientific

Richard Dawkins' first book on evolutionary biology "The Selfish Gene" was published to much acclaim and some controvers... Read more

Professor Brian Cox of Manchester University describes how he gave up appearing on Top of the Pops to study quarks, quas... Read more

Ebola, Zika, Sars, Mers - rarely a week goes by without a deadly virus stealing the headlines. For Jonathan Ball, getti... Read more

Steve Haake,has spent much of his career using technology to help elite sports people get better, faster and break reco... Read more

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Jared Diamond about how his passion for the birds of Papua New Guinea overtook his medical inter... Read more

Patricia Wiltshire grew up in a mining village in South Wales, left home when she was 17 and worked for many years, firs... Read more

How did time and space begin? From the age of ten, Sean Carroll has wanted to know. He first read about the big bang mod... Read more

Frank Close is a theoretical particle physicist and a pioneer of popular writing about physics. His first book aimed at ... Read more

Anil Seth is professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the Sackler Centre at the University of Sussex, wh... Read more

EO Wilson has been described as the "world's most evolved biologist" and even as "the heir to Darwin". He's a passionate... Read more

Susie was dinosaur-mad as a child. But unlike most children, she never grew out of her obsession. She tells Jim about an... Read more

Carlo Rovelli first became interested in the nature of time when he took LSD as a young man. Later he became curious abo... Read more

Physicist, Paul Davies is interested in some of the biggest questions that we can ask. What is life? How did the univers... Read more

Dr Nick Lane is attempting to answer one of the hardest questions in science. How did life on earth begin? You might thi... Read more

When a skeleton was unearthed in 2012 from under the tarmac of a car park in Leicester, Turi King needed to gather irref... Read more

For a long time Fay Dowker was mathematically precocious, but emotionally uncertain. These days, despite working in an a... Read more

Daniel Dennett has never been one to swallow accepted wisdom undigested. As a student he happily sought to undermine the... Read more

Peter Higgs opens up to Jim Al-Khalili, admitting that he failed to realise the full significance of the Higgs boson and... Read more

Professor Rachel Mills is a marine geochemist who studies the sea floor and hydrothermal vents, where water erupts from ... Read more

Jim enters the multiverse with Astronomer Royal Martin Rees. He's worked on the big bang, black holes and the formation ... Read more