NEW EPISODE OUT NOW 💫

Get your space helmets on everyone... this week we're taking a trip to the Milky Way! 🚀

Jim Al-Khalili tells us how the Milky Way was formed 🌟 @jalkhalili

We also learn about gravity in outer space, and why Planet Earth is called Earth 🌍️

'We grow older, things become more disordered, the universe expands, and things die out. Where does that directionality come from?' — Jim Al-Khalili

Find out in our new podcast episode, available now on Apple Music and Spotify: bit.ly/4aV0Fen

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Emerging from her interview with Jim Al-Khalili for BBC Radio 4’s #TheLifeScientific , to be broadcast in July. Dr Anne Child, Medical Director of the #Marfan Trust, discussed her uniquely fascinating life and career! We will remind you nearer the time!

The Life Scientific coming up in a few minutes on BBC Radio 4

Tomorrow morning on #TheLifeScientific on ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ I chat with astronomer and Royal Astronomical Society president, Mike Edmunds.

We discuss galactic chemistry, ancient astronomical instruments, and the ghost of Isaac Newton makes a guest appearance.

Last in the series.

🚨 Reminder🚨

Royal Astronomical Society president Mike Edmunds will be a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific tomorrow (Tuesday 23 April).

Hear about Prof Edmunds' life and work as he is interviewed by presenter Jim Al-Khalili.

Listen at 09:00 BST 📻 🎤

Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) - Daily Nous dailynous.com/2024/04/19/dan…

Oh lord, Dan Dennett has died. That's a huge loss to the intellectosphere. He ruffled lots of feathers and often divided opinion, but he was a phenomenal thinker and always worth listening to. And a fabulous writer.

I hope this The TLS review of Dennett’s I’ve Been Thinking explains why I think he was such a force for good in philosophy the-tls.co.uk/articles/ive-b…

Very sad to hear that the philosopher Daniel Dennett has died. He was a hero of mine and his book, Consciousness Explained, was quite wonderful.
I interviewed him on The Life Scientific back in 2017

bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08…

New paper out in Physical Review C with Lance and Paul Stevenson on the effectiveness of quantum algorithms (and hence the usefulness of quantum computers) for modelling the structure of atomic nuclei.

journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/1…

The University of Edinburgh Frank Close You can also hear Peter Higgs in his own words, talking to Jim Al-Khalili on Life Scientific just after the Nobel and discovery.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03…

My favourite Life Scientific chuckle moment with the amazing Jim Al-Khalili:
Jim: 'Peter Higgs what is the Higg's Boson?'
Peter: '...well...theory...symmetry breaking...background field...mass differences...waves propagate...'
'Can you encapsulate that in say 30 seconds?'
'No'
LOL

A great series of short YouTube interviews by Paul Sen with historian of science, Simon Schaffer: Artificial Intelligence--Lessons from History youtube.com/playlist?list=… via YouTube

The final episode in my interview series with Cambridge historian Simon Schaffer is now online. This one’s about the roots of “big data” and how to deal with the fact that numbers dominate our lives. youtu.be/3wakZNjnBkg

I'm really excited and pleased to be included among such wonderful and illustrious company in this lovely new book by Andrew Copson.

The remarkable ⁦Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute⁩ turns 90 today. Here she is in conversation with ⁦Jim Al-Khalili⁩ in 2020 ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ ⁦BBC Sounds⁩ - The Life Scientific, on living with wild chimpanzees. Producer Anna Buckley. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

In 1985 an astronaut noticed this physical behavior of a handle, that turned out to be the proof of a theorem: the tennis racket theorem (also dubbed the Dzhanibekov effect)