Science at the Extremes - with Greg Foot, Dan Martin and Leigh Marsh
Greg Foot leads a scientific exploration to the top of the tallest mountain and bottom of the deepest ocean, accompanied by mountaineer medic Dan Martin and oceanographer explorer Leigh Marsh.Greg Foo...
7 Aug 201758min
Epigenetics and Parental Origin Effects - with Anne Ferguson-Smith
Anne Ferguson-Smith explains what epigenetics is and how our environment interacts with our genome and if these changes can be passed on to the next generation. What is epigenetic inheritance and why ...
3 Jul 201757min
Revolutionary Science and the French Revolution
Steve Jones chronicles the remarkable scientific advances made during the French Revolution and ambles through the history of modern science and current research.Paris at the time of the French Revolu...
5 Jun 201748min
The Psychology of Thinking - Richard Nisbett
In a lightning tour of human reasoning, world-renowned psychologist Richard Nisbett shines a new light on the shadowy world of the way we think – and how we can make our lives, and the lives of those ...
2 Mai 201756min
Neuroimaging, Neurononsense and Gender Stereotypes - with Gina Rippon
Have new brain imaging techniques really revealed that women and men are ‘hardwired’ for their gender roles? Or has neuroscience become misappropriated to justify gender gaps? Professor of cognitive n...
3 Apr 201757min
The Neuroscience of Addiction - with Marc Lewis
Neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes the case that addiction isn't a disease at all, although it has been recently branded as such.In recent decades doctors have branded addiction a brain...
28 Feb 20171h 2min
Catching Gravitational Waves - with Sheila Rowan
Sheila Rowan explains the nature of gravitational waves, where they come from, how we detected them, and what the future of this new era in astronomy might look like.A century ago, Albert Einstein rea...
13 Feb 201753min
The Neuroscience of Consciousness –With Professor Anil Seth
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Anil Seth looks at the neuroscience of consciousness and how our biology gives rise to the unique experience of being you. Anil provides an insigh...
26 Jan 201755min
