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April 28, 2020 Mysteries in physics – Everything You Wanted To Know About…Physics, episode five
Prof Jim Al-Khalili reveals some of the biggest unsolved mysteries. We talk about the plausibility of time travel, whether there are multiple universes and what we need to discover a ‘theory of everything’.
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33 min
April 27, 2020 Energy – Everything You Wanted To Know About…Physics, episode four
Prof Jim Al-Khalili tackles thermodynamics – the study of energy. Together, we unravel the idea of entropy, talk about the direction of time and muse upon the inevitable heat death of the Universe.
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30 min
April 26, 2020 Quantum physics – Everything You Wanted To Know About…Physics, episode three
Prof Jim Al-Khalili demystifies the strange world of quantum physics. We discuss the key experiments, how quantum effects play out in the real world and, of course, Schrödinger's infamous cat.
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33 min
April 25, 2020 Space & Time – Everything You Wanted To Know About…Physics, episode two
Prof Jim Al-Khalili helps us get to grips with the big concepts in cosmology. We talk space time, relativity and, of course, the end of the Universe.
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38 min
April 24, 2020 The Fundamentals – Everything You Wanted to Know About…Physics, episode one
Prof Jim Al-Khalili breaks down the building blocks of the Universe and reveals what simplicity, beauty and elegance have to do with physics.
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38 min
April 22, 2020 Everything You Wanted To Know About Physics, with Prof Jim Al-Khalili
Let your curiosity run wild. No question is off-limits in this new podcast series from the team behind BBC Science Focus magazine. In Everything You Wanted To Know About… world-leading experts answer Google’s most searched for queries and tackle questions from our listeners.
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5 min
April 20, 2020Sandro Galea: What is the difference between health and medicine?
This week we talk to the Sandro Galea, Dean of the school of public health at Boston University.
His book, called Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health (£18.99, OUP) takes a deep look at the differences between health and medicine, and looks at how everything from the environment, taxation, education and even luck plays a part in the overall health of a nation.
Speaking before the coronavirus pandemic, he explains the surprising factors that influence public health, which countries are doing it well, and why he felt he had to write this book.
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Listen to more episodes of the Science Focus Podcast:
Anthony Warner: Are we really too fat?
Aleks Krotoski: What happens to your data when you die?
Marcel Danesi: Why do we want to believe lies?
Jim Al-Khalili: Why should we care about science and scientists?
Bill Bryson: What should we know about how our bodies work?
Caroline Criado Perez: Does data discriminate against women?

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36 min
April 06, 2020Toby Ord: What are the odds civilisation will survive the century?
This week we talk to the philosopher Toby Ord about the end of civilisation as we know it.
Ok, it’s not all doom and gloom. As Toby says, he’s an optimistic person, but in his new book The Precipice (£25, Bloomsbury) he explains why we’re at a point in time where we, as a species, are teetering on the edge of extinction.
We discuss how much potential us homo sapiens have, what’s putting our continued survival at risk, how civilisation as we know it could come to an end, and what are the odds we’ll see out the century.
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Listen to more episodes of the Science Focus Podcast:
Michio Kaku: The future of humanity
William Poundstone: Can we really predict when doomsday will happen?
John Higgs: Are Generation Z our only hope for the future?
Brad Lister: Are we facing an insect apocalypse?
Randall Munroe: How do you find the worst solution to any problem?
Sir David Attenborough: How can we save our planet?

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36 min
March 30, 2020Anthony Warner: Are we really too fat?
In this week's Science Focus Podcast chef and author of the book The Truth About Fat: Why Obesity is Not that Simple (£9.99, Oneworld), Anthony Warner chews the fat about, well, fat.
Pretty much all of us have been tempted at some point in our lives to shed some weight around our midriff, especially when we see our BMI creeping over 25, but what does this actually mean, and is it really a reliable measure of general health?
He speaks to our editorial assistant Amy Barrett about why the body needs fat, what influences our body shape, and why there is so much stigma about being obese.
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Samantha Alger: What can we do to save the bees?
Randall Munroe: How do you find the worst solution to any problem?
Bill Bryson: What should we know about how our bodies work?
Phillippa Diedrichs: Is body positivity the answer to body image issues?
Professor Catharina Svanborg: Is the cure for cancer hiding in human breast milk?
Giles Yeo: Eating for your genes

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48 min
March 23, 2020Camilla Pang: How can science guide my life?
Dr Camilla Pang is a bioinformatician, who was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder when she was eight years old.
Her first book, Explaining Humans (£14.99, Viking), is a guide to navigating life, love and relationships using the lessons she’s learned in her scientific career so far.
In it she draws on examples from how the different proteins in the human body can reflect the different roles in a social group, to the way how light refracts through a prism helping her to break down fear into something manageable.
In this episode of the Science Focus Podcast, she discusses her current work using disease and cancer data, along with machine learning methods, to find patterns that can be used in healthcare and lead to the development of therapies.
She also explains how her neurodiversity has affected the way she works.
If you have a burning science question you want an expert to answer, send them to us on twitter at @sciencefocus, and we may answer them in a future episode.
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Listen to more episodes of the Science Focus Podcast:
Why AI is not the enemy – Jim Al-Khalili
What we got wrong about pandas and teenagers
Jim Davies: How do you use your imagination?
Dean Burnett: What’s going on in the teenage brain?
Dr Guy Leschziner: What is your brain doing while you sleep?
Everything that's wrong with the human body – Nathan Lents

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39 min

About Instant Genius

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Whether you’re curious about getting healthy, the Big Bang or the science of cooking, find out everything you need to know with Instant Genius. The team behind BBC Science Focus Magazine talk to world-leading experts to bring you two bite-sized masterclasses on a new subject each week.