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Science is demanding as well as exciting. Dish Life, the final of four ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Shorts films, compares the task of raising stem cells in the lab to the challenge of looking after a gang of unruly kids. In conversation with real-life children, scientists show how tricky it is to work with these ‘super cells’.

The capacity for language is what sets us apart from other animals. Talk with Your Hands, the third of four ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Shorts films, explores the richness of sensory perception in interviews with blind and deaf people together with insights from neuroscientists.  

Imagination is where ideas start: in the mind’s eye. The ability to think creatively – to dream the impossible – is behind the technological developments that have transformed the world. Science, suggests the second of four ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Shorts, is an art.

The pain we experience as humans has physical and emotional components. Could we develop a machine that feels pain a similar way – and would we want to? The first of four ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Shorts looks at the possibilities and challenges.