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The Case of The Blind Man's Eye
Why can't I see images in my mind?
Our Microbes and Our Health
The astonishing and mysterious world of the human microbiome.
Judith Bunbury: Unearthing the secrets of Ancient Egypt
Dr Judith Bunbury on enriching our knowledge of ancient Egypt and beyond
The Life Scientific: Clifford Johnson
New approaches to quantum questions and using science in films.
The Life Scientific: Rebecca Kilner
Jim al-Khalili hears how insects helped Rebecca Kilner solve evolutionary mysteries
The Life Scientific: Tim Lamont
Jim Al-Khalili meets Tim Lamont, a young ecologist making waves restoring coral reefs.
Bad Blood: Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
Bad Blood: The curse of Mendel
How Gregor Mendel discovered the gene, an insight which inspired eugenics from the 1900s
Bad Blood: Rassenhygiene
The mass sterilisation of those deemed ‘unfit’ by the Nazis in the name of eugenics
Bad Blood: Birth controlled
The women forcibly sterilised against their will and the campaign for birth control
