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Lithium: Chile鈥檚 white gold

Why lithium makes such good batteries

• 27 mins

The equal rights stuff

When women and minorities first went into space

• 26 mins

The Martian Mission

Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.

• 27 mins

The Hamster Power Hypothesis

How many hamsters on wheels would it take to power London? asks Judah from Virginia, USA.

• 27 mins

The noises that make us cringe

Why do some people find noises like a fork scraping a plate so terrible?

• 26 mins

Patient zero: Back from the brink

When polio returned to Asia Pacific

• 40 mins

The Evidence: Sharing Vaccines 鈥� what鈥檚 gone wrong?

The ethics of putting children in rich countries ahead in the global vaccine queue

• 50 mins

Peter Goadsby on migraine

Peter Goadsby on migraine attacks and the new treatments his research has inspired.

• 27 mins

Tooth and claw: Lions

Our complex relationship with Earth鈥檚 greatest predators by the people who know them best

• 26 mins

The Evidence: How Covid damages the human body

Covid the chameleon - the multiple ways this virus attacks our bodies

• 49 mins

Tooth and claw: Bears

Adam Hart explores our complex relationship with bears

• 26 mins

Tooth and claw: Tigers

What's it like facing a charging tiger and how best can we protect their growing numbers?

• 27 mins

Dare to Repair: How we broke the future

Why electronic gadgets dont last as long as they used to and why repairing them is hard.

• 27 mins

Dare to repair: The fight for the right to repair

Exploring how citizens are fighting back for the right to repair their own stuff

• 27 mins

Dare to repair: Fixing the future

How does repair and repair-ability fit into our sustainable future?

• 27 mins

Whatever happened to鈥�those Covid-19 stories

Claudia Hammond and panel study ideas that have disappeared

• 53 mins

A sense of music

What happens when music meets the animal mind?

• 27 mins

Introducing: Season 2 of 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

How animals make us smarter 鈥� we thought you might like to hear our brand new episode

• 18 mins

Lost for words

David Shariatmadari explores the science of language, dementia and ageing

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Dr Nira Chamberlain

Nira Chamberlain on how mathematics can solve real-world problems.

• 27 mins

The Life Scientific: Professor Martin Sweeting

How Martin Sweeting made a satellite on his kitchen table

• 27 mins

The Evidence: How will the pandemic end?

Keeping a lid on risks of new covid variants as vaccinated countries ease restrictions

• 48 mins

Tamsin Edwards on the uncertainty in climate science

All climate change models are wrong. Tamsin Edwards tells Jim Al Khalili why.

• 27 mins

Future vaccines

How the pandemic will change the vaccine landscape

• 33 mins

Covid origins: The science

What the science says about the start of the pandemic

• 39 mins

China's great science leap

Is China set to become the next science superpower?

• 27 mins

China's great science leap

Will China鈥檚 ambitions in space, quantum & biotech lead it to science super-power status?

• 27 mins

The Evidence: To boost or not to boost?

The science and the ethics of vaccine booster shots

• 50 mins

Earthshot 1

Winning ideas to improve the world around us.

• 27 mins

Earthshot 2 鈥� Tackling our energy crisis

Balancing our growing need for electricity while addressing climate change

• 27 mins