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Physicist John Ellis on the evidences that the universe is not static, Einstein's equations and what is dark energy

Genes and the Environment

Geneticist Steve Jones on the nature-nurture controversy, genetics of obesity and how can you solve genetic promlems by changing the environment

Fresh Water and Climate Change

Geographer Anson Mackay on threats to fresh water, the dangers of dead zones in the lakes and how people can adapt to the extreme climate events

The New Science of Culture

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the division into natural sciences and humanities, how to read art using the machine learning and why culture should be studied as an evolutionary science

Self-construction

Neuroscientist Onur Güntürkün on depersonalization, the rubber hand illusion and how synchronous nerve impulses create the feeling that your body is your body

Genome Medicine

Bioinformatician Tim Hubbard on the ‘100,000 Genomes Project’, how to use genome data in diagnostics and treatment and what challenges the genome medicine is facing

Cloud Computing

Computer scientist Erol Gelenbe on the energy consumption in cloud servers, fog computing and why do data centres require special design of networks

Cassini Mission

Physicist David Southwood on the history of the Cassini mission, landing on Titan and why does humanity need to explore space

History of Laughter

Historian Peter Jones on three theories of laughter, humour as a way of doing politics and how laughter was perceived in the Medieval Europe

Self-recognition

Neuroscientist Onur Güntürkün on the ability of self-recognition, the mirror test and why pigeons are frightened of their own reflection

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