Professor Charles Godfray, Director of the the Oxford Martin School tells Jim Al-Kahlili about the intricate world of population dynamics, and how a healthy obsession with parasitic wasps might help us solve some of humanity's biggest problems, from the fight against Malaria to sustainably feeding a global community of 9 billion people.
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
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'
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
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