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Season 2017

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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2017E01 What computers can't do + Q&A (Kevin Buzzard)
February 3, 2017
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S2017E02 We need to talk about physics + Q&A (Helen Czerski)
February 15, 2017
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S2017E03 If our brains are computers, who designs the software? + Q&A (Daniel C Dennett)
February 21, 2017
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S2017E04 Water and proteins: insights into the physics of life + Q&A (Sylvia McLain)
February 24, 2017
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S2017E05 [NYP] How to measure the Universe (Andrew Pontzen)
February 25, 2017
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S2017E06 Biased science (Louise Archer, Binna Kandola, Emma Chapman, Jessica Rowson & Claudia Hammond)
March 3, 2017
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S2017E07 Fashion, faith and fantasy in the new physics of the Universe + Q&A (Roger Penrose)
March 14, 2017
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S2017E08 [NYP] Nature, art and cryptography (Alison Fairbrass, Chiara Ambrosio & Chris Darby)
March 16, 2017
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S2017E09 [NYP] Deep life (Tullis Onstott)
March 21, 2017
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S2017E10 The wonderous world of perovskites + Q&A (Mike Glazer)
March 31, 2017
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S2017E11 The cutting edge: surgery from scalpels to robots + Q&A (Pankaj Chandak)
April 12, 2017
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S2017E12 The tyrannosaur chronicles: how the tyrannosaurs ruled the world + Q&A (David Hone)
April 20, 2017
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S2017E13 A is for Autism (Stephanie Shirley)
April 28, 2017
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S2017E14 The cosmic web: mysterious architecture of the Universe + Q&A (J Richard Gott)
May 11, 2017
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S2017E15 The other side of sadness: the psychology and neuroscience of happiness + Q&A (Vin Walsh, Julia Christensen, Joe Gladstone & Morten Kringelbach)
May 17, 2017
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S2017E16 Can data make a medicine? + Q&A (Patrick Vallance)
May 26, 2017
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S2017E17 Let them eat dirt: why dirt and microbes could be good for us + Q&A (B Brett Finlay)
May 30, 2017
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S2017E18 The Concept of Mass + Q&A (Jim Baggott)
June 13, 2017
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S2017E19 Machine morality: robot ethics in the 21st century + Q&A (Raja Chatila & Alan Winfield)
June 22, 2017
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S2017E20 Apocalypse how: the apocalypse and how to avoid it + Q&A (Hugh Lewis, Vinay Gupta, Rosalind Eggo & Lewis Dartnell)
June 28, 2017
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S2017E21 Human-artificial intelligence partnerships: how can AI help humanity? + Q&A (Nick Jennings)
June 30, 2017
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S2017E22 Eclipse: journeys to the dark side of the Moon + Q&A (Frank Close)
July 25, 2017
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S2017E23 Black holes and the fundamental laws of physics + Q&A (Jerome Gauntlett)
season finale
September 29, 2017
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