Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
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Donna Strickland and extremely powerful lasers
Mon 1 Apr 2019
Donna Strickland on inventing extremely powerful lasers and winning a Nobel Prize
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Unbottling the past
Mon 25 Mar 2019
The discovery and recreation of an iconic perfume formula for Soir de Paris
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ShakeAlertLA - California鈥檚 earthquake early warning system
Mon 11 Mar 2019
The mobile app that will warn southern Californians if an earthquake is heading their way
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From the Cold War to the present day—Chemists' Dirty Secrets
Mon 4 Mar 2019
2/2 The role chemists have played in the development of chemical weapons
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From the Crimean War to the end of World War Two—Chemists' Dirty Secrets
Mon 25 Feb 2019
1/2 Andrea Sella looks at the role chemists have played in the development of weapons
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Tracks across time—The Chase
Mon 18 Feb 2019
4/4 Scientists race to save a set of 95-million-year-old footprints
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Trouble in paradise—The Chase
Mon 11 Feb 2019
3/4 How scientists are trying to eradicate rats and mosquitoes threatening French Polynesia
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Back from the Dead—The Chase
Mon 4 Feb 2019
2/4 The hunt for the Night Parrot: a fat, dumpy, green parrot that lives in the desert
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Eye in the Sky—The Chase
Mon 28 Jan 2019
1/4 SOFIA is a flying observatory setting out to study Titan, Saturn鈥檚 biggest moon
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Ibn al-Haytham: The Father of Modern Optics—Science Stories: Series 7
Mon 21 Jan 2019
3/3 The Arabic scholar who showed how light and the human eye produce our sense of vision
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Kepler's Snowflake—Science Stories: Series 7
Mon 14 Jan 2019
2/3 Philip Ball tells the story of Johannes Kepler and the six cornered snowflake.
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Lucretius, Sheep and Atoms—Science Stories: Series 7
Mon 7 Jan 2019
1/3 Two thousand years ago Lucretius composed about atoms and the natural world
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Eddington's eclipse and Einstein's celebrity
Mon 31 Dec 2018
Philip Ball tells the story of Arthur Eddington's confirmation of general relativity
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The Supercalculators
Mon 17 Dec 2018
Alex Bellos meets the supercalculators taking part in the Mental Calculation World Cup.
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The China Syndrome—Plastic Fantastic
Mon 10 Dec 2018
3/3 China's ban on importing other countries' waste plastic is having a big impact
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How Much Plastic Can We Recycle?—Plastic Fantastic
Mon 3 Dec 2018
2/3 Professor Mark Miodownik explores our love/hate relationship with plastic.
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Why We Fell In Love with Plastic—Plastic Fantastic
Mon 26 Nov 2018
1/3 Professor Mark Miodownik explores our love/hate relationship with plastic.
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Finding the Coelacanths—The Genius of Accidents
Mon 19 Nov 2018
3/3 A huge, four-limbed fish, was discovered 65 million years after its supposed extinction
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The Big Bang and Jet Streams—The Genius of Accidents
Mon 12 Nov 2018
2/3 Evidence for the big bang was initially thought to be a mistake in the data
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Viagra and CRISPR—The Genius of Accidents
Mon 5 Nov 2018
1/3 Viagra was first developed to treat heart disease, but it had some surprising side-effects
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Tracking the First Animals on Earth
Mon 29 Oct 2018
In search of the first animals on the Earth, more than half a billion years ago
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Cooling the City
Mon 22 Oct 2018
How can we adapt and prepare our cities for extreme weather conditions?
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Tourism and Transparency—China's Organ Transplants
Mon 15 Oct 2018
2/2 Matthew Hill explores the Chinese approach to organ transplantation.
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Who To Believe?—China's Organ Transplants
Mon 8 Oct 2018
1/2 Matthew Hill explores the Chinese approach to organ transplantation.
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The Long Hot Summer - Part Two—Heatwave
Mon 1 Oct 2018
2/2 How did mild temperatures in the Arctic affect 2018's extreme weather?
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The Long Hot Summer—Heatwave
Mon 24 Sep 2018
1/2 Roland Pease asks why the Northern Hemisphere had unusually high temperatures this year.
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Space
The eclipses, spacecraft and astronauts changing our view of the Universe
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
A pair of scientific sleuths answer your perplexing questions. Ask them anything!
