Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
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Controlling Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
Mon 5 Feb 2018
3/4 How do brains control pain? Irene Tracey asks can we distance ourselves from agony
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Knowing Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
Mon 29 Jan 2018
2/4 Phantom limb pain, babies鈥� pain, people without pain, help understand the nature of pain.
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Seeing Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
Mon 22 Jan 2018
1/4 Why do some people feel more pain than others and what happens in the brain during surgery
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Humphry Davy—Science Stories: Series 4
Mon 15 Jan 2018
4/4 The story of how Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas in 1799.
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Lise Meitner—Science Stories: Series 4
Mon 8 Jan 2018
3/4 How physicist Lise Meitner unlocked the science of the atom bomb that cost Hitler dearly
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The Day the Earth Moved
New Year's Day 2018
How scientists learned the earth鈥檚 crust is made up of shifting plates.
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Maria Merian—Science Stories: Series 4
Christmas Day 2017
2/4 How a 13-year old girl mapped metamorphosis in the 1600s. Naomi Alderman presents
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Alcuin of York—Science Stories: Series 4
Mon 18 Dec 2017
1/4 Philip Ball dives into the Dark Ages to reveal the author of the river crossing riddle
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Cheating the Atmosphere
Mon 11 Dec 2017
Dodgy emissions data could fatally undermine the Paris Climate Agreement
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What would happen if you fell into a black hole?
Mon 27 Nov 2017
Plus, could we make a sonic weapon?
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Sydney Brenner: A Revolutionary Biologist
Mon 23 Oct 2017
Sydney Brenner talks about his part in the DNA revolution between the 1950s and 1980s
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SOS Snail
Mon 16 Oct 2017
Helen Scales reports on the international rescue mission to save the Partula snail
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Indian Science 鈥� The Colonial Legacy
Mon 9 Oct 2017
How did British imperialism affect India鈥檚 scientific development?
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India's Ancient Science
Mon 2 Oct 2017
Rediscovering influential Indian ideas on mathematics, metallurgy and engineering
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Africa鈥檚 Great Green Wall
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Transforming the Sahal into the next wonder of the world through Africa鈥檚 Great Green Wall
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Internet of Things—Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet
Mon 18 Sep 2017
3/3 Can we Control the Dark Side of the Internet?
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Dark Side of the World Wide Web—Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet
Mon 11 Sep 2017
2/3 Did the World Wide Web's Utopian ideals spread crime and obscenity?
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The Origin of the Internet—Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet
Mon 4 Sep 2017
1/3 The origins of the internet, and why nobody thought of making it secure
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Silicon - The World's Building Block—In Their Element
Mon 28 Aug 2017
5/8 The key component of rocks, sand and materials from glass and concrete to microelectronics
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The Day the Sun Went Dark
Mon 21 Aug 2017
For the first time in almost 100 years the USA is experiencing a full solar eclipse
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Carbon - the backbone of life—In Their Element
Mon 14 Aug 2017
4/8 Why is all known life built on carbon?
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And then there was Li—In Their Element
Mon 7 Aug 2017
3/8 The element that links the formation of the universe with the functioning of our brains
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Oxygen: The breath of Life—In Their Element
Mon 31 Jul 2017
2/8 Trevor Cox takes a deep breath and tells the story of oxygen on earth and in space
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Mercury - Chemistry's Jekyll and Hyde—In Their Element
Mon 24 Jul 2017
1/8 The most beautiful and shimmering of the elements, the weirdest, and yet the most reviled
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!
