Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
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Plate Tectonics and Life
Mon 15 Jul 2013
Plate tectonics: the force that shaped the Earth - and shaped the life on it
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Build Me a Brain
Mon 1 Jul 2013
Scientists connect cultures of living human neurons to robots to see how the brain works
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Solar Max
Mon 24 Jun 2013
Astronomer Lucie Green looks at the dangers a solar superstorm could pose to us on Earth
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Amoret Whitaker
Mon 17 Jun 2013
Forensic entomologist Amoret Whitaker on insects and their role in solving crimes
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Alan Watson
Mon 10 Jun 2013
Around a million cosmic rays pass through us every night but where do they come from?
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On The Trail of the American Honeybee
Mon 3 Jun 2013
Dr Adam Hart explores the impact of migratory bee-keeping in the United States
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On the Trail of the American Honeybee 1/2
Mon 27 May 2013
How honeybees and their keepers travel vast distances pollinating America's crops
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Deep Sea Vents
Mon 20 May 2013
Are newly discovered deep ocean ecosystems threatened by deep sea mining?
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A Trip Around Mars - Part Two
Mon 29 Apr 2013
Canyons, craters and mountains: The spectacular Martian terrain carved by swathes of water
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A Trip Around Mars with Kevin Fong - Part One
Mon 22 Apr 2013
The alien mountains, canyons and craters that inspire scientists and writers
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Annette Karmiloff-Smith on toddlers and TV
Sat 13 Apr 2013
Should babies under two watch TV? Jim talks to psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith.
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Premiership Science
Mon 1 Apr 2013
Like football, science is an international endeavour complete with its own stars.
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What If... We could stay young forever? 3/3
Mon 18 Mar 2013
Peter Bowes concludes his exploration of the drive to live longer by looking at diet.
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What If... We could stay young forever? 2/3
Mon 11 Mar 2013
Peter Bowes asks if exercise and lifestyle changes hold the key to staying young.
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What If... We could stay young forever? 1/3
Mon 4 Mar 2013
Peter Bowes explores how science and lifestyle could hold the promise to staying young.
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What If... We could all become cyborgs?
Mon 25 Feb 2013
Dr Andrew Holding meets some of the people straddling the line between man and machine.
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Sexual Nature 3/3
Mon 18 Feb 2013
Life鈥檚 many paths to being female or male: in humans, komodo dragons and transexual fish
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Sexual Nature 1/3
Mon 4 Feb 2013
Frolicking fossils and suggestive theories - the evolutionary history of sex
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The ENCODE Project
Mon 21 Jan 2013
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
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John Gurdon
Mon 14 Jan 2013
2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep
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Jared Diamond
Mon 7 Jan 2013
Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea
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The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist
Mon 31 Dec 2012
Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.
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Why do women outlive men
Christmas Eve 2012
Why do women live longer than men? Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing
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Piltdown Man
Mon 17 Dec 2012
Piltdown Man 鈥� could such a shocking case of scientific fraud happen again?
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!
