Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
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Science Stories: Series 3 - Testosterone: Elixir of Masculinity
Mon 19 Dec 2016
How testosterone has been used and abused in history
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Science Stories: Series 3 - Making the Earth Move
Mon 12 Dec 2016
How a dying man's book demoted the earth and reconstructed the universe.
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Custom of Cutting
Mon 21 Nov 2016
An investigation into female genital mutilation in East and West Africa
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The City that Fell into the Earth
Mon 7 Nov 2016
How do you move a city? Lesley Riddoch travels to Arctic Sweden to find out
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The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic
Mon 24 Oct 2016
Peter Gibbs explores Ascension Island, a barren Atlantic rock made fertile by man
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Black Holes: A Tale of Cosmic Death and Rebirth
Mon 10 Oct 2016
LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and the new astronomy of nature鈥檚 ultimate state of matter
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How do you make the perfect cup of tea?
Mon 29 Aug 2016
Plus, why do we cry? Is there any useful purpose?
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Cleaning Up the Oceans
Mon 4 Jul 2016
Roland Pease asks what damage plastic waste is doing in the oceans
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Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part 4: The Arctic
Mon 27 Jun 2016
New life, new dangers and new hopes for the endangered shorebirds on the tundra
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Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part Three: Yellow Sea North
Mon 20 Jun 2016
Can China鈥檚 birdwatchers and North Korea鈥檚 economy save migratory birds from extinction?
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Life on the East Asian Flyway 鈥� Part Two: Yellow Sea South
Mon 13 Jun 2016
Hear the calls of the Chinese bird hunter turned conservationist
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Life on the East Asian Flyway
Mon 6 Jun 2016
The world鈥檚 greatest migration - countless birds fly north from Australia to the Arctic
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The Neglected Sense
Mon 30 May 2016
Kathy Clugston is anosmic - she has no sense of smell and sets out to discover why
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Benefits of Bilingualism - Part Two
Mon 16 May 2016
The benefits of bilingualism: keeping our minds healthy
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Benefits of Bilingualism - Part One
Mon 9 May 2016
Gaia Vince explores the benefits of bilingualism for children
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Our Unnatural Selection
Mon 2 May 2016
How humans are inadvertently driving the evolution of other species
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!
