Life Solved lifts the lid on the latest ideas and discoveries that look set to change our lives - from outsmarting criminals with VR, to understanding community resilience in world crises, and creating new solutions to global plastic pollution.
Every week we'll bring you a fresh episode featuring cutting-edge research. Find out how this is set to revolutionise the way our world works. We'll explain how technology and community go hand in hand with the natural world, and how industry and sustainable environments can connect for the benefit of society.
Real research. Real world change.
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Use the links below to jump between each series of Life Solved
Series 7
How Palaeontology is unpicking the story of life on Earth

The truth about cold water swimming

What does fairness in football look like? Part 1: Equality

What does fairness in football look like? Part 2: Corruption

Do Animals Really Know What We're Thinking?

Understanding the Ukraine Invasion

How Technology is driving new forms of domestic abuse

Series 6
Mapping Past and Present
How everyday people are exploring our cosmos
How zines are capturing social history

The University of Portsmouth in space

Community resilience in world crises

COP in Focus: The Future of Energy

COP in Focus: The Future of Construction

COP in Focus: What Now?

How tech is transforming the world

Representing all of us in public organisations

Series 5
In this special new series of Life Solved, we explore the trends, changes and innovations that are taking place in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Across 5 episodes, find out how life is changing for all of us, and University of Portsmouth researchers share their findings, ideas and observations on what a post-Covid future might look like.
How has the pandemic changed mental health and education opportunities for young people?
Has Covid changed consumer habits for good?
How tech is changing employment and women’s work lives

Democracy and policing under pressure

How has Covid impacted sustainability in our world and habits?

For the rest of this series of Life Solved, we’re delving into the world of wildlife crime.
Working with the antique trade to change the law on ivory

Understanding the world’s most endangered great ape

Fingerprinting pangolin scales to fight wildlife crime

Series 4
How witness interviewing techniques influence evidence

Outsmarting criminals with VR

Understanding nature’s most disastrous events

How crowdsource mapping and drone photography can support disaster response

Reading the rocks: how we can predict landslides to keep homes safe and highways open

Interpreting the Surface of the Moon

Series 3
Episode 1: Atomik Vodka
Episode 2: Voices Against Violence
Episode 3: Development Economics

Episode 4: 3D Printing for the Body

Episode 5: The Language of Violence

Episode 6: Meet the Aca-fans

Episode 7: Creative Communication for Better Health and Wellbeing

Episode 8: Beyond Help? Mental health and support for vulnerable children

Episode 9: Learning and Normalising Bereavement

Episode 10: Fashion for the Future

Series 2
Episode 1: Plastic Waste and the Economics of Sustainability

Episode 2: The Power of Puppy Dog Eyes

Episode 3: Parasites and Pollutants

Episode 4: The Next Generation of Antibiotics

Episode 5: How Stress Shapes Our Brains

Episode 6: A Sweet Approach to Battling Bad Bacteria

Episode 7: Respect the Water

Episode 8: Politics and Packaging in the Food Industry

Episode 9: Girls' Night Out

Episode 10: Water Blindness

Episode 11: Chemcatcher

Episode 1: The Coronavirus Toolkit
Episode 2: How Politics Became Social
Episode 3: Innovations in Diagnosing Bladder Conditions

Episode 4: Deep, Blue Thinking

Episode 5: Drone Warfare

Episode 6: The Politics of Water

Episode 7: Britain's Burning Future

Episode 8: Vital Connections in the Brain

Episode 9: Oysters in the Solent - Cleaning up our waters

Episode 10: The Will to Change the Law
