The Life Scientific

Brian Schmidt on Nobel Prize-winning supernovae and the joys of making wine

Jacqueline McKinley on unearthing bones and stories at Britain's ancient burial sites

Jonathan Shepherd on a career as a crime-fighting surgeon

Doyne Farmer on making sense of chaos for a better world

Tori Herridge on ancient dwarf elephants and frozen mammoths

Sir Magdi Yacoub on pioneering heart transplant surgery

Tim Peake on his journey to becoming an astronaut and science in space

Anna Korre on capturing carbon dioxide and defying expectations

Rosalie David on the science of Egyptian mummies

Peter Stott on climate change deniers and Italian inspiration

Ijeoma Uchegbu on using nanoparticles to transform medicines

Darren Croft on killer whale matriarchs and the menopause

Bill Gates on vaccines, conspiracy theories and the pleasures of pickleball

Kip Thorne on black holes, Nobel Prizes and taking physics to Hollywood

Vicky Tolfrey on parasport research and childhood dreams of the Olympics

Dawn Bonfield on inclusive engineering, sustainable solutions and why she once tried to leave the sector for good

Raymond Schinazi on revolutionising treatments for killer viruses

Janet Treasure on eating disorders and the quest for answers

Anne Child on Marfan syndrome and love at first sight

Conny Aerts on star vibrations and following your dreams

Mike Edmunds on decoding galaxies and ancient astronomical artefacts

Hannah Critchlow on the connected brain

Fiona Rayment on the applications of nuclear for net zero and beyond

Nick Longrich on discovering new dinosaurs from overlooked bones

Sheila Willis on using science to help solve crime

Sir Charles Godfray on parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people

Jonathan Van-Tam on Covid communication and the power of football analogies

Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots

Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful

Sir Harry Bhadeshia on the choreography of metals

Cathie Sudlow on data in healthcare

Sir Michael Berry on phenomena in physics' borderlands

Professor Sarah Harper on how population change is remodelling societies.

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on human evolution and parenthood

Edward Witten on 'the theory of everything'

Introducing… Uncharted with Hannah Fry

Alex Antonelli on learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate change

Paul Murdin on the first ever identification of a black hole

Bahija Jallal on the biotech revolution in cancer therapies

Sir Colin Humphreys on electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world

Chris Barratt on head-banging sperm and a future male contraceptive pill

Gideon Henderson on climate ‘clocks’ and dating ice ages

Deborah Greaves on wave power and offshore renewable energy

Harald Haas on making waves in light communication

Anne Ferguson-Smith on unravelling epigenetics

Anne-Marie Imafidon on fighting for diversity and equality in science

Bruce Malamud on modelling risk for natural hazards

Gillian Reid on making chemistry count

Andre Geim on levitating frogs, graphene and 2D materials

Julie Williams on Alzheimer’s disease

James Jackson on understanding earthquakes and building resilience

Marie Johnston on health psychology and the power of behavioural shifts

Julia King on manipulating metals and decarbonising transport

Danny Altmann on how T cells fight disease

Haley Gomez on cosmic dust

Adrian Smith on the power of Bayesian statistics

Clifford Johnson on making sense of black holes and movie plots

Rebecca Kilner on beetle behaviours and evolution

Pam Shaw on the research battle against motor neurone disease

Chris Elliott on fighting food fraud

A passion for fruit flies

Why study sewage?

The sounds of coral reefs

Can computers discover new medicines?

Emily Holmes on how to treat trauma

Judith Bunbury on the shifting River Nile in the time of the Pharaohs

Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize

Sir Martin Landray on saving over a million lives

Vlatko Vedral on the universe as quantum information

Adam Hart on ants, bees and insect burgers

Jacinta Tan on anorexia nervosa and the mind

Pete Smith on why soil matters

Chi Onwurah on why engineering is a caring profession.

Ailie MacAdam on the biggest construction project in Europe

Ben Garrod on conservation and extinction

Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals

Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA

Julia Shaw on memories that aren't true

Sharon Peacock on hunting pandemic variants of concern

Tim Clutton-Brock on meerkats, red deer and evolution

Tim Spector and personalised diets for long term health

The Patrick Vallance Interview

The Life Scientific at 10: What makes a scientist?

Hannah Cloke and predicting floods

Derk-Jan Dijk on the importance of sleep

Brenda Boardman on making our homes energy efficient.

David Eagleman on why reality is an illusion

Hannah Fry on the power and perils of big data

Tamsin Edwards on the uncertainty in climate science

Mike Tipton on how our bodies respond to extreme conditions

Nira Chamberlain on how mathematics can solve real-world problems

Helen Scales on marine conservation

Peter Goadsby on migraine

Jane Clarke on Protein Folding

Professor Martin Sweeting, inventor of microsatellites

Theresa Marteau on how to change behaviour

Mark Spencer on how plants solve crimes

Sarah Bridle on the carbon footprint of food

Richard Bentall on the causes of mental ill health

Jane Hurst on the secret life of mice

Anne Johnson on the importance of public health

Giles Yeo on how our genes can make us fat

Cath Noakes on making buildings Covid-safe

Chris Jackson on sustainable geology

Scientists in the Spotlight during the Pandemic

Neil Ferguson on modelling Covid-19

Sarah Gilbert on developing a vaccine for Covid-19

Steve Haake on technology, sport and health

Francesca Happé on autism

Heather Koldewey on marine conservation

Dale Sanders on feeding the world

Andy Fabian on black holes

Alice Roberts on bones

Clifford Stott on riot prevention

Emma Bunce on the gas giants

Jane Goodall on living with wild chimpanzees

Liz Seward and the dream of spaceflight

Frank Kelly on air pollution

Debbie Pain on conserving globally threatened bird species

Jim McDonald on power networks

Brian Greene on how the universe is made of string

Myles Allen on understanding climate change

Matthew Cobb on how we detect smells

Anya Hurlbert on seeing colour

Optical communications pioneer Polina Bayvel

2019 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, Sir Peter Ratcliffe

Peter Fonagy on a revolution in mental health care

Susannah Maidment on stegosaurs

Patricia Wiltshire on how pollen can solve crimes.

Elizabeth Fisher on chromosomes in mice and men

Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence

Saiful Islam on materials to power the 21st century

Adrian Owen on scanning for awareness in the injured brain

Martha Clokie on the viruses that could improve our health

Anne Magurran on how to measure biodiversity

Richard Wiseman on lying, luck and the paranormal

Jonathan Ball on his arms race against viruses

Robin Dunbar on why we have friends

Katherine Joy on moon rock

DNA detective Turi King

Ewine van Dishoeck on cosmic chemistry

Plastic pollution with Richard Thompson

Erica McAlister on the beauty of flies

Richard Peto on why smoking kills but quitting saves lives

Irene Tracey on pain in the brain

Paul Davies on the origin of life and the evolution of cancer

Corinne Le Quéré on the global carbon cycle

Ken Gabriel, Why your Smartphone is Smart.

2018 Nobel Prize winner, Donna Strickland, on laser physics

Gwen Adshead on treating the minds of violent offenders

2018 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner, Sir Gregory Winter

Sue Black on women in tech

Jim Al-Khalili on HIS life scientific

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Clive Oppenheimer on the volcanic offerings of our angry earth

Sky at Night presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Banning chemical weapons with Alastair Hay

Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove

Mike Stratton and cancer genes

Detective of the mind Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan

Noel Fitzpatrick on becoming a supervet

Jacqueline McGlade on monitoring the environment from space

Rachel Mills exploring the sea floor

Frank Close and particle physics

Sheena Cruickshank on the wonders of the human immune system

John Taylor on being an inventor

Cat Hobaiter on communication in apes

Caroline Dean reveals the genetic secrets of flowering

Carlo Rovelli on why time is not what it seems

Callum Roberts on the urgent need for marine conservation

Stephen Reicher on the psychology of crowds

Clare Grey on the Big Battery Challenge

John Burn and the genetics of cancer

Richard Henderson zooms in on the molecules of life

Wendy Barclay and the flu virus

Eugenia Cheng on the mathematics of mathematics

Eben Upton on Raspberry Pi

Adrian Thomas on the mechanics of flight

Ellen Stofan on being NASA chief scientist

Tim Birkhead on bird promiscuity

Steve Cowley on Nuclear Fusion

Lucie Green on the sun

Tracey Rogers on leopard seals and Antarctica

Jennifer Doudna

Tamsin Mather on what volcanic plumes reveal about our planet

Tim O'Brien on transient stars and science and music festivals

Ottoline Leyser on how plants decide what to do

Fay Dowker on a new theory of space-time

Ann Clarke on The Frozen Ark

Graham MacGregor on tackling the demons in our diet

Liz Sockett on friendly killer bacteria

Nick Fraser on Triassic reptiles

Daniel Dennett on the evolution of the human brain

Alison Woollard on what she has learnt from mutant worms

Alan Winfield on robot ethics

Simon Wessely on unexplained medical syndromes

Sean Carroll on how time and space began

Alison Smith on algae

Sadaf Farooqi on what makes us fat

Jan Zalasiewicz on the Age of Man

Michele Dougherty on Saturn

Neil de Grasse Tyson on Pluto

Richard Morris on how we know where we are

Julia Higgins on polymers

Roger Penrose on black holes

Lynne Boddy on Fungi

Ian Wilmut on Dolly the sheep

Frans de Waal on chimpanzees

Trevor Cox on sound

Georgina Mace on threatened species

Faraneh Vargha-Khadem on memory

Hazel Rymer on volcanoes

Nick Davies on cuckoos

Sheila Rowan on gravitational waves

Marcus du Sautoy on mathematics

Lawrence Krauss on dark energy

Carolyn Roberts on flood control

Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut (2016)

Venki Ramakrishnan on ribosomes

George Davey-Smith on health inequalities

Dr Nick Lane on the origin of life on earth

Naomi Climer on engineering

Peter Piot on tackling ebola and HIV

Paul Younger on energy for the future

Kathy Willis on botany

Patrick Vallance on pharmaceuticals

Robert Plomin on the genetics of intelligence

Danielle George on electronics

Dame Carol Black on public health

Geoff Palmer on brewing

EO Wilson on ants and evolution

Niamh Nic Daeid on forensic science

Carlos Frenk on dark matter

Dorothy Bishop on language disorders

Henry Marsh on brain surgery

Kate Jones on bats and biodiversity

Anil Seth on consciousness

Susan Jebb on nutrition

Nigel Shadbolt on the worldwide web

Stephanie Shirley on computer coding

Jane Francis on Antarctica

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains

Matt Taylor on the Rosetta space mission

John O'Keefe on memory

Dave Goulson on bees

Dame Sally Davies on public health

Richard Fortey on fossils

Margaret Boden on artificial intelligence

Chris Toumazou on inventing medical devices

Elspeth Garman on crystallography

Jackie Akhavan on explosives

Brian Cox on quantum mechanics

Carol Robinson on chemistry

Jeremy Farrar on fighting viruses

Zoe Shipton on fracking

Chris Llewellyn Smith on nuclear fusion

Sandy Knapp

Chris Lintott

Janet Hemingway

Professor Sir Michael Rutter

Julia Slingo

Veronica van Heyningen

Alf Adams

Anne Glover

Mark Miodownik

Vikram Patel

Sue Black

Peter Higgs

Wendy Hall

Jenny Graves

Sophie Scott

Ian Stewart

Mike Benton

Mark Lythgoe

Joanna Haigh

Russell Foster

Elizabeth Stokoe

David Spiegelhalter

Ewan Birney

Athene Donald

Linda Partridge

Lord John Krebs

Sanjeev Gupta

Nancy Rothwell

Sue Ion

Alan Watson

Valerie Beral

Noel Sharkey

Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Prof Robert Mair

Amoret Whitaker

John Gurdon

Jared Diamond

Monica Grady

Hugh Montgomery

Sir Mark Walport

Sunetra Gupta

David Nutt

Andrea Sella

Richard Dawkins

Dame Ann Dowling

Martin Siegert

Pat Wolseley

Steve Jones

John Pickett

Robert May

Barbara Sahakian

Lloyd Peck

Frances Ashcroft

James Lovelock

Angela Gallop

Tejinder Virdee

John Lawton

Martin Rees

Iain Chalmers

Tony Ryan

Chris Stringer

Robin Murray

Colin Pillinger

Lord Robert Winston

Tim Hunt

Uta Frith

John Sulston

Nicky Clayton

Molly Stevens

Colin Blakemore

Sir Michael Marmot

Steven Pinker

Paul Nurse