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Frontiers Episodes

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    Virtual Therapy

    Quentin Cooper looks at the therapeutic possibilites of virtual reality.

  2. Can Maths Combat Terrorism?

    Can maths reveal hidden patterns in global terrorism? Dr Hannah Fry investigates.

  3. Animal Personality

    Prof Adam Hart explores a new field in zoology - animal personality.

  4. New Space to Fly

    Jack Stewart meets the pioneers redesigning our international airspace.

  5. Vagus Nerve

    Can stimulating the vagus nerve improve health? Gaia Vince explores this new research area

  6. The Rosetta Mission

    Billed as 'the sexiest space mission ever', did Rosetta's probe land safely on its comet?

  7. Cosmology

    Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang as announced in March?

  8. Swarming robots

    Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots.

  9. Anaesthesia

    Linda Geddes explores the latest research into how general anaesthetics work in the body.

  10. Power Transmission

    Gaia Vince looks at the future of power transmission.

  11. Ageing and the brain

    Do our mental powers really decline in old age?

  12. Driverless cars

    Jack Stewart meets the engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves.

  13. Chronotypes

    Linda Geddes explores research into the differences between morning and evening people.

  14. Geo-engineering

    Gaia Vince asks if geoengineering by blocking the sun could stop the earth warming up.

  15. Nitrogen Fixing

    Prof Andrea Sella looks at efforts to reduce our dependence on the Haber-Bosch process.

  16. Self-Healing Materials

    Quentin Cooper takes a look at the new materials that can mend themselves.

  17. The Power of the Unconscious

    The crucial role of our unconscious, and how scientists are now harnessing its powers.

  18. Gut Microbiota

    New insights into the important relationship we have with microbes that live in our gut.

  19. Oxytocin

    Linda Geddes asks if taking the hormone oxytocin can make people more sociable.

  20. Crossrail - Tunnelling under London

    How 26 miles of precision-engineered tunnels are created through London's erratic geology.

  21. Plate Tectonics and Life

    Roland Pease on the idea that life on early Earth led to the evolution of plate tectonics.

  22. Whatever happened to biofuels?

    Gaia Vince asks if we can ever run our vehicles on biofuels from algae or bacteria.

  23. 19/06/2013

    Can we beat bacteria by stopping the bugs from talking to each other?

  24. Build Me a Brain

    Roland Pease reports on scientists building brains from scratch in the lab.

  25. Forensic Phonetics

    Rebecca Morelle explores how the forensic science of speech is helping to solve crime.

  26. 05/12/2012

    Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.

  27. Brain Machine Interfaces

    Geoff Watts looks into how scientists can use the mind to control artificial limbs.

  28. Anthropocene

    Has humanity launched a new geological time period? Gaia Vince on the Anthropocene Epoch.

  29. Why do women live longer than men?

    Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing.

  30. Future of Particle Physics

    Tracey Logan asks what particle physicists are doing after finding the Higgs boson.

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