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Jim Davies: How do you use your imagination? © Getty Images

Jim Davies How do you use your imagination?

Mark Miodownik: Are biodegradable plastics really better than traditional plastic? © Getty Images

Everyday science

Mark Miodownik Are biodegradable plastics really better than traditional plastic?

Kevin Fong: What happened to Apollo 13? (The severely damaged Apollo 13 Service Module photographed from the Lunar Module/Command Module © NASA)

Kevin Fong What happened to Apollo 13?

Dr Erin Macdonald: Is there any science in Star Trek? © NBC Television (Public domain)

Dr Erin Macdonald Is there any science in Star Trek?

Aleks Krotoski What happens to your data when you die © Getty Images

Aleks Krotoski What happens to your data when you die?

Does data discriminate against women? – Caroline Criado Perez © Getty Images

Caroline Criado Perez Does data discriminate against women?

Kathryn D. Sullivan: What is it really like to walk in space? © NASA

Kathryn D Sullivan What is it really like to walk in space?

Does science have a problem with women?

Everyday science

Why aren’t there more women in science?

Adam Rutherford: Can science ever be rid of racism? © Charlie Clift/BBC

Adam Rutherford Can science ever be rid of racism?

What happens when maths goes horribly, horribly wrong? – Matt Parker © Getty Images

Everyday science

Matt Parker What happens when maths goes horribly, horribly wrong?

Professor Fay Dowker: What is the problem of quantum gravity? © Imperial College London

Everyday science

Professor Fay Dowker What is the problem of quantum gravity?

Ross Barnett: Why should we be interested in prehistoric animals that aren’t dinosaurs? © Getty Images

Ross Barnett Why should we be interested in prehistoric animals that aren’t dinosaurs?

Samantha Alger: What can we do to save the bees? © Alex Burnham

Samantha Alger What can we do to save the bees?

Marcel Danesi: Why do we want to believe lies? © Getty Images

Marcel Danesi Why do we want to believe lies?

Dr Becky Smethurst: How do you actually find a black hole? (A simulation of plasma flow at the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, which lies at the centre of the Milky Way. © J. Davelaar, M. Moscibrodzka, T. Bronzwaer & H. Falcke/Radboud Univ)

Dr Becky Smethurst How do you actually find a black hole?