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  • TheTVDB.com Season ID 1986023
  • Created September 14, 2020
  • Modified May 6, 2025
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2022E01 How Occam's Razor Changed the World of Science - with Johnjoe McFadden
January 10, 2022
55
S2022E02 Why Do Animals Cooperate - with Nichola Raihani
January 11, 2022
3
S2022E03 Are Optical Computers the Future of Computing - with Martijn Heck
January 13, 2022
68
S2022E04 How Humans Have Genetically Modified Nature – with Beth Shapiro
January 20, 2022
51
S2022E05 Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet - with Arthur Turrell
January 27, 2022
63
S2022E06 How Batteries Power the Modern World - with Paul Shearing
February 3, 2022
57
S2022E07 How Do Pathogens Cause Disease and How Can We Fight Them – with John Tregoning
February 10, 2022
60
S2022E08 Why Do Things Stick to Each Other - with Laurie Winkless
February 17, 2022
56
S2022E09 Are We Alone in the Universe - with Paul Davies
February 22, 2022
5
S2022E10 The Search for a Theory of Everything – with Yang-Hui He
February 24, 2022
61
S2022E11 What Does the Future of Space Travel Look Like - with Chris Impey
March 3, 2022
39
S2022E12 Chemical Wonders – with Andrew Szydlo
March 10, 2022
83
S2022E13 Mathematics is the Art of the Shortcut - with Marcus du Sautoy
March 16, 2022
7
S2022E14 Using lasers to create fusion and save the world – with Kate Lancaster
March 18, 2022
51
S2022E15 Thinking better with mathematics – with Marcus du Sautoy
March 24, 2022
54
S2022E16 Giant fishing dinosaurs - Uncovering Spinosaurus and Baryonyx – with David Hone
March 31, 2022
45
S2022E17 15 minutes of relaxing science ASMR
April 1, 2022
15
S2022E18 Matrix to metaverse - Can we live a meaningful life in virtual reality – with David J Chalmers
April 7, 2022
37
S2022E19 Astrophysical neutrinos and how to find them – with Jenni Adams
April 14, 2022
64
S2022E20 The physics of timekeeping – with Chad Orzel
April 21, 2022
48
S2022E21 Is genetic engineering a dream or a nightmare – with Matthew Cobb
May 5, 2022
54
S2022E22 Is time travel real - with Colin Stuart
May 18, 2022
2
S2022E23 What's eating the universe - with Paul Davies
May 19, 2022
61
S2022E24 Getting older without getting old - with Andrew Steele
May 26, 2022
56
S2022E25 What's going wrong with mental health awareness - with Lucy Foulkes
June 9, 2022
46
S2022E26 The cell programming revolution – with Mark Kotter
June 23, 2022
29
S2022E27 Can you smell Parkinson's - with Perdita Barran and Joy Milne
June 27, 2022
12
S2022E28 When nature breaks the law – with Mary Roach and Lucy Cooke
July 7, 2022
68
S2022E29 How we make memories and how memories make us – with Veronica O'Keane
May 12, 2022
58
S2022E30 The other end of a black hole – with James Beacham
June 16, 2022
57
S2022E31 Combining medicine and design - with Bon Ku and Ellen Lupton
June 2, 2022
55
S2022E32 The universe's biggest mysteries - with Gianfranco Bertone
June 14, 2022
3
S2022E33 Mindwandering – with Moshe Bar
June 30, 2022
52
S2022E34 The invisible universe, from supernova to black holes – with Matthew Bothwell
April 28, 2022
50
S2022E35 How will the Universe end – with Katie Mack
April 23, 2022
5
S2022E36 Infrared astronomy - with Matthew Bothwell
July 11, 2022
3
S2022E37 Solving the biggest mysteries of the universe - with Gianfranco Bertone
July 14, 2022
56
S2022E38 Solar system science from the James Webb Space Telescope – with Naomi Rowe-Gurney
July 17, 2022
64
S2022E39 Psychedelic therapy for depression - hope or hype - with Alex Riley
July 21, 2022
56
S2022E40 Why does maths give humans the edge over machines - with Junaid Mubeen
July 28, 2022
58
S2022E41 How the Krebs cycle powers life and death – with Nick Lane
August 4, 2022
55
S2022E42 Physics experiments that changed the world – with Suzie Sheehy
August 11, 2022
66
S2022E43 Why does human intelligence beat AI – with Gerd Gigerenzer
season finale
August 18, 2022
58
S2022E44 Do we live in a multiverse - with Laura Mersini-Houghton
August 22, 2022
7
S2022E45 What can science tell us about dogs with Jules Howard
August 25, 2022
53
S2022E46 Can machines be emotionally intelligent - with Hatice Gunes
September 1, 2022
55
S2022E47 What Darwin won't tell you about evolution - with Jonathan Pettitt
September 8, 2022
48
S2022E48 Where did the Universe come from with Geraint Lewis
September 15, 2022
72
S2022E49 How to think about feelings with Leonard Mlodinow
September 22, 2022
52
S2022E50 The theory behind all electronics with Suzie Sheehy
September 27, 2022
3
S2022E51 Quantum computing in the 21st Century with David Jamieson
September 29, 2022
58
S2022E52 The rise and reign of the mammals - with Steve Brusatte
October 6, 2022
59
S2022E53 The origin of our universe from the multiverse with Laura Mersini-Houghton
October 13, 2022
56
S2022E54 Can we save frogs from a deadly fungus
October 17, 2022
11
S2022E55 The hidden world of animal senses with Ed Yong
October 20, 2022
44
S2022E56 Michael Faraday's supernatural experiment
October 24, 2022
7
S2022E57 How did Michael Faraday invent with David Ricketts
October 27, 2022
56
S2022E58 Genie in a pumpkin #Shorts
October 31, 2022
1
S2022E59 Trailblazing women astronomers - with David Weintraub, Carole Mundell and Hiranya Peiris
November 3, 2022
57
S2022E60 How can medical diagnosis get us wrong with Jules Montague
November 10, 2022
57
S2022E61 Particle physics is stuck - with Pauline Gagnon
November 14, 2022
6
S2022E62 Mysterious numbers unlocking the secrets of the Universe - with Tony Padilla
November 18, 2022
58
S2022E63 The biggest ideas in the Universe - with Sean Carroll
November 21, 2022
52
S2022E64 Existential physics answering life's biggest questions - with Sabine Hossenfelder
November 24, 2022
40
S2022E65 The search for objective reality - with Jim Peebles
November 28, 2022
56
S2022E66 The joy of science - with Jim Al-Khalili
December 1, 2022
38
S2022E67 Why sharks matter - with David Shiffman
December 5, 2022
71
S2022E68 Not-so-random card shuffle #Shorts
December 7, 2022
1
S2022E69 The magic of physics - with Felix Flicker
December 8, 2022
49
S2022E70 Electroscope in action #Shorts
December 11, 2022
1
S2022E71 The science of gunshot residue analysis
December 12, 2022
2
S2022E72 Bottle rockets #Shorts
December 14, 2022
1
S2022E73 The explosive history of hydrogen with Andrew Szydlo
December 15, 2022
80
S2022E74 How to prevent jet lag #Shorts
December 18, 2022
1
S2022E75 Christmas Lectures 2021 The Invisible Enemy - with Jonathan Van Tam
December 19, 2022
59
S2022E76 Christmas Lectures 2021 The Perfect Storm - with Jonathan Van Tam
December 20, 2022
59
S2022E77 The surprising science of snow crystals
December 20, 2022
5
S2022E78 Christmas Lectures 2021 Fighting Back - with Jonathan Van Tam
December 21, 2022
59
S2022E79 The press had no idea #Shorts
December 21, 2022
1
S2022E80 Particle physics made easy - with Pauline Gagnon
December 23, 2022
66
S2022E81 Christmas lights for physicists #Shorts
December 25, 2022
1
S2022E82 Materialising artificial intelligence with Wilfred G. van der Wiel
December 26, 2022
70
S2022E83 Blood under a microscope #Shorts
December 28, 2022
1
S2022E84 The hidden world of animal consciousness - with David Pea-Guzmn
season finale
December 29, 2022
51

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