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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2017E01 What We Cannot Know - with Marcus du Sautoy
January 4, 2017
51
S2017E02 Interview with a Spaceman - with Mike Massimino
January 11, 2017
73
S2017E03 What Do You Think Of Our Channel?
January 12, 2017
1
S2017E04 A Journey to the Centre of the Sun - with Lucie Green
January 18, 2017
54
S2017E05 The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth
February 1, 2017
60
S2017E06 Explaining Thermodynamics - Monthly(ish) Mailbag #3
February 13, 2017
6
S2017E07 Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David Tong
February 15, 2017
60
S2017E08 The Art and Science of Getting Things Done
February 16, 2017
52
S2017E09 How to Win Games and Beat People - with Tom Whipple
February 22, 2017
57
S2017E10 How Fusion Reactors Control Plasma - 2016 CHRISTMAS LECTURES
March 2, 2017
3
S2017E11 Antimicrobial Resistance: The End of Modern Medicine? - with Dame Sally Davies
March 8, 2017
59
S2017E12 Controlling Your Body With Electricity - 2016 CHRISTMAS LECTURES
March 15, 2017
4
S2017E13 Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in Physics - with Roger Penrose
March 22, 2017
63
S2017E14 The Double Slit Experiment - Monthly(ish) Mailbag #4
March 29, 2017
3
S2017E15 If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? - with Daniel Dennett
April 6, 2017
76
S2017E16 Exploding a Lithium Ion Battery - 2016 CHRISTMAS LECTURES
April 12, 2017
4
S2017E17 Unconscious Bias in Science
April 19, 2017
60
S2017E18 Cosmology, Space and Space Travel – Monthly Mailbag #5
April 26, 2017
5
S2017E19 How Movement Drives Evolution – with Matt Wilkinson
May 3, 2017
58
S2017E20 How To Remember Things - At Home Science - ExpeRimental #21
May 4, 2017
5
S2017E21 The Wondrous World of Perovskites - with Mike Glazer
May 10, 2017
60
S2017E22 How To Make a Hollow Mask Illusion - At home science - ExpeRimental #22
May 11, 2017
5
S2017E23 The Hollow Mask Illusion - ExpeRimental Extra! [NO AUDIO]
May 11, 2017
S2017E24 Brexit: The Scientific Impact - Livestream catchup
May 12, 2017
258
S2017E25 Artificial Intelligence, the History and Future - with Chris Bishop
May 17, 2017
61
S2017E26 How To Make An Ames Room Illusion - At home science - ExpeRimental #23
May 18, 2017
6
S2017E27 Autism: A Personal Journey - with Dame Stephanie Shirley
May 24, 2017
56
S2017E28 Amazing Body Illusions! At home science - ExpeRimental #24
May 25, 2017
7
S2017E29 The Chemistry of Heavy Water, Argon & Flamingos – Monthly Mailbag #6
June 1, 2017
3
S2017E30 Why is Multitasking So Hard? At home science – ExpeRimental #25
June 2, 2017
4
S2017E31 Can Data Make a Medicine? - with Patrick Vallance
June 7, 2017
46
S2017E32 How To Make Fake Poo - At home science - ExpeRimental #26
June 8, 2017
5
S2017E33 What is Symmetry in Physics? - with Tara Shears
June 14, 2017
4
S2017E34 How To Make Your Own Animations - At home science - ExpeRimental #27
June 16, 2017
5
S2017E35 Surgery From Scalpels to Robots - with Pankaj Chandak
June 22, 2017
65
S2017E36 How Do We Recognise Faces? - At home science - ExpeRimental #28
June 23, 2017
4
S2017E37 Why Doesn't the Earth Fall into the Sun? - Monthly Mailbag #7
June 28, 2017
7
S2017E38 Seeing Shapes in Inkblots - At home science - Experimental #29
June 29, 2017
5
S2017E39 How the Tyrannosaurs Ruled the World – with David Hone
July 5, 2017
54
S2017E40 5 Tips on How to Do Science At Home With Your Kids
July 6, 2017
6
S2017E41 The Mysterious Architecture of the Universe - with J Richard Gott
July 12, 2017
66
S2017E42 The Science of Stress: From Psychology to Physiology
July 19, 2017
50
S2017E43 Can Blind Birds Navigate? - Monthly Mailbag #8
July 26, 2017
7
S2017E44 What Computers Can't Do - with Kevin Buzzard
August 2, 2017
64
S2017E45 Humphry Davy's Potassium Volcano
August 9, 2017
3
S2017E46 What Eclipses Have Done for Science
August 16, 2017
5
S2017E47 Chasing Eclipses - with Frank Close
August 23, 2017
58
S2017E48 The Physics of Life: How Water Folds Proteins - with Sylvia McLain
August 30, 2017
45
S2017E49 What makes an accent? - Monthly Mailbag #9
September 7, 2017
7
S2017E50 Why Dirt and Microbes Could Be Good for Us - with B Brett Finlay
September 13, 2017
56
S2017E51 The Concept of Mass - with Jim Baggott
September 27, 2017
49
S2017E52 What to Do About Space Debris?
October 5, 2017
5
S2017E53 The Psychology and Neuroscience of Happiness
October 11, 2017
36
S2017E54 How Can AI Help Humanity? - with Nick Jennings
October 18, 2017
57
S2017E55 Black Holes and the Fundamental Laws of Physics - with Jerome Gauntlett
October 26, 2017
62
S2017E56 Exploding Acetylene Pumpkins! Halloween Science
October 31, 2017
3
S2017E57 Mars Exploration: Curiosity and Beyond - with Anita Sengupta
November 8, 2017
55
S2017E58 What is special relativity? - Monthly Mailbag #10
November 16, 2017
6
S2017E59 The Big Picture: From the Big Bang to the Meaning of Life - with Sean Carroll
November 22, 2017
63
S2017E60 Robot Ethics in the 21st Century - with Alan Winfield and Raja Chatila
November 30, 2017
35
S2017E61 Mimicry vs Language - with Sir David Attenborough
December 1, 2017
2
S2017E62 Using a Cell Phone in 1985 - with David Pye
December 2, 2017
2
S2017E63 How to Speak Backwards - with Eric Laithwaite
December 3, 2017
3
S2017E64 Trying Out Battery Powered Welding - with Saiful Islam
December 4, 2017
2
S2017E65 How Ants Defend Their Home Trees - with Sue Hartley
December 5, 2017
4
S2017E66 How Stick Insects Use Camouflage - with Richard Dawkins
December 6, 2017
2
S2017E67 How Encryption Keys Work - with Chris Bishop
December 7, 2017
4
S2017E68 Simulating Tastes and Smells Using a Digital Lollipop - with Danielle George
December 8, 2017
3
S2017E69 Chameleon Communications - with Sir Colin Blakemore
December 9, 2017
1
S2017E70 Sign Language in a Mirror - with Charles Stirling
December 10, 2017
3
S2017E71 The Phone Book from 1880 - with Gareth Roberts
December 11, 2017
1
S2017E72 How We Learn to Interpret Speech - Charles Taylor
December 12, 2017
2
S2017E73 How Would We Communicate with Alien Life? - with Carl Sagan
December 13, 2017
8
S2017E74 The Science of Collaboration - with Uta and Chris Frith
December 13, 2017
53
S2017E75 Making Machines Speak - with David Pye
December 14, 2017
5
S2017E76 Can Objects Have Personalities? - with Bruce Hood
December 15, 2017
1
S2017E77 The Home of the Future in 1988 - with Gareth Roberts
December 16, 2017
1
S2017E78 The DNA Code - with Alison Woollard
December 17, 2017
3
S2017E79 An Early Look at Video Calling - with Geoffrey Gouriet
December 18, 2017
3
S2017E80 Facial Character Analysis - with Heinz Wolff
December 19, 2017
5
S2017E81 Bioluminescence - with David Attenborough
December 20, 2017
1
S2017E82 The Mathematics of Error Correction - with Marcus du Sautoy
December 21, 2017
4
S2017E83 What Happens During a Space Walk - with Kevin Fong and Dan Tani
December 22, 2017
6
S2017E84 Haptic Technology Demonstration - with Danielle George
December 23, 2017
1
S2017E85 Musical Wooden Blocks - with Charles Taylor
December 26, 2017
2
S2017E86 Holiday Snow Science - Monthly Mailbag #11
season finale
December 27, 2017
5

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