Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold on turning microbes into living factories.
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Sir Martin Landray
Jim al-Khalili speaks to Sir Martin Landray about the world's largest Covid-19 drug trial.
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How Covid Changed Science, part 3
Professor Devi Sridhar investigates the impact of Covid on the practice of science.
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How Covid changed science, part 2
Professor Devi Sridhar investigates the impact of Covid on the practice of science
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How Covid changed science, part 1
What has been the impact of Covid on the practice of science?
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Satellites versus the stars
What are the benefits and unintended consequences of thousands more satellites in space?
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Plant based promises, diet and health
Giles learns to cook a plant based Thai green curry.
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Plant based promises and sustainability
Giles Yeo looks at the sustainability of plant based products
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Plant based promises, rise of the plant based burger
Why do we need to eat more plant based foods? Giles Yeo looks at the alternatives.
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The mysterious particles of physics, part 3
Roland Pease explores the 100-km atom smasher physicists are planning at CERN
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The mysterious particles of physics, part 2
Dark matter's dark secrets. Researchers seeking the unseen stuff that fills the universe
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The mysterious particles of physics, part 1
The machine that found the Higgs Boson 10 years ago is about to start digging deeper
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The Life Scientific: Adam Hart
When does a waggle dance become a tremble dance?
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The Life Scientific: Jacinta Tan
How does a person with anorexia nervosa think? Jacinta Tan sheds light on this illness
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The Life Scientific: Pete Smith
Restore peat bogs to mitigate climate change and improve bio-diversity.
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The colour conundrum
How do we see colour and why are some people colour blind?
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The Turn of the Tide
Why are tide times and ranges so different around the UK, asks Lynn?
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The Shocking White Hair
Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.
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Surprising symmetries
Two eyes, two arms, two legs - we are roughly symmetrical on the outside. Why is that?
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The weird waves of wi-fi
We use wi-fi every day, but do you know how it works?
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The Mystery of the Teenage Brain
Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.
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Wild Inside: The Ocean Sunfish
Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish
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Wild Inside: The Burmese Python
Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the internal secrets to success of the Burmese Python
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Wild Inside: Jungle royalty - the Jaguar
Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside three animals from the big wild world.
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The Life Scientific: Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals
How did mammals come to dominate our planet? Prof Steve Brusatte talks to Jim Al-Khalili
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The Life Scientific: Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA
The man who found a way to decode DNA at speed
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Tooth and Claw: Wolves
Wolves play a dark role in our imaginations but how does the real animal compare?
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Tooth and Claw: Army ant
Adam Hart explores the villain of many a jungle horror movie - the army ant.
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Tooth and Claw: Venomous snakes
Adam Hart discovers why rattlesnakes make good mothers and how deadly their venom is.
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Tooth and claw: Spotted hyena
Professor Adam Hart resurrects the spotted hyena鈥檚 reputation, from scavenger to hunter
