Why Chile has a megadrought Read more
now playing
Megadrought in Chile
Why Chile has a megadrought
The Evidence: Are national lockdowns evidence of policy failure?
Locked in the lockdown cycle – evidence for a more targeted response
Anatomy Of Touch
Touch hunger
Why we’re starved of touch
Unwanted touch
How can we stop unwanted touch?
Affectionate touch
How we experience gentle touch
Digital touch
Can touch be replicated digitally?
Birds: singing for survival
Birds are changing their tunes
Broad spectrum
Helen Keen had a diagnosis of autism as an adult. She explores how it appears in women
The Evidence: Pandemic rules: follower or flouter?
Why a sense of “we” rather than “I” makes us more likely to follow pandemic rules
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
How do instruments make music?
1/6 Why do different musical instruments sound unique?
Why people have different pain thresholds
2/6 Plus, how fast can a human run?
Will we ever find alien life?
3/6 Where are we looking for alien life and what are the chances of finding it?
Why do we get déjà vu?
4/6 Plus is anything really random?
Does infinity exist?
Rutherford and Fry embark on a never-ending quest for infinite knowledge
Why do birds sing?
6/6 And why does the human voice change as we age?
The growling stomach
Why do our tummies rumble - and when they do, does it always mean we are hungry?
The seeded cloud
Can we make it rain?
The sting in the tail
What’s the point of wasps?
The end of everything
When and how is the universe going to end?
The Zedonk Problem
What are ligons and tigers? What is a species?
The Space Burrito
Is there a point in space where the Sun could heat a burrito perfectly? And other puzzles
Steve Haake
Steve Haake talks to Jim al-Khalili about how technology improves sporting ability
Evolutionary biologist Alice Roberts
What can we learn from human remains? Alice Roberts talks bones with Jim Al Khalili
Hopes and fears for Covid-19 vaccines
Vaccines and virus mutations
Climate meltdown
Wildfires, floods, hurricanes made 2020 record breaking. What it says about climate change
Marine conservationist Heather Koldewey
Saving seahorses and turning old fishing nets into luxury carpets.
Astrophysicist Andy Fabian
Professor Andy Fabian on supermassive black holes and their dramatic hold over galaxies
Plant scientist Dale Sanders
Why the world needs more plant scientists. Prof Dale Sanders talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Science Trumped
Let science speak, health expert Tony Fauci pleaded last week. So how was it sidelined?
