Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Dare to repair: The fight for the right to repair
Exploring how citizens are fighting back for the right to repair their own stuff
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Dare to Repair: How we broke the future
Why electronic gadgets dont last as long as they used to and why repairing them is hard.
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Tooth and claw: Tigers
What's it like facing a charging tiger and how best can we protect their growing numbers?
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Tooth and claw: Bears
Adam Hart explores our complex relationship with bears
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Tooth and claw: Lions
Our complex relationship with Earth鈥檚 greatest predators by the people who know them best
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Tooth and claw: Crocodiles
Adam Hart explores Earth鈥檚 greatest predators, starting with the crocodile
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Peter Goadsby on migraine
Peter Goadsby on migraine attacks and the new treatments his research has inspired.
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Patient zero: First outbreak
How did smallpox reach Australia?
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Patient zero: Back from the brink
When polio returned to Asia Pacific
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Patient zero Ticking time bomb
Meningitis outbreak across US
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Patient zero: Spillover in suburbia
Mystery disease killing horses 鈥� and people
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The noises that make us cringe
Why do some people find noises like a fork scraping a plate so terrible?
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The Hamster Power Hypothesis
How many hamsters on wheels would it take to power London? asks Judah from Virginia, USA.
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The Martian Mission
Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.
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The equal rights stuff
When women and minorities first went into space
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Lithium: Chile鈥檚 white gold
Why lithium makes such good batteries
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Patient zero: Coronavirus and contact tracing
Patient Zero tells the stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin and why they happen
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Patient zero: The December transplant
Patient Zero tells the stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin and why they happen
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Patient zero: something in the water
Patient Zero tells the stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin and why they happen.
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The Life Scientific: Jane Hurst
Jane Hurst reveals how mice are ruled by their noses.
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The Life Scientific: Cath Noakes
How good ventilation dramatically reduces the risk of inhaling tiny airborne pathogens.
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The Life Scientific: Giles Yeo
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work.
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The power of night
Lucy Cooke examines why it pays to stir when the sun goes down
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The power of one
Lucy Cooke explores why some species shirk company in favour of a solitary life
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The power of celibacy
Lucy Cooke discovers why some species reproduce without sex or the need for males
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Science Trumped
Let science speak, health expert Tony Fauci pleaded last week. So how was it sidelined?
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Plant scientist Dale Sanders
Why the world needs more plant scientists. Prof Dale Sanders talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
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Astrophysicist Andy Fabian
Professor Andy Fabian on supermassive black holes and their dramatic hold over galaxies
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Marine conservationist Heather Koldewey
Saving seahorses and turning old fishing nets into luxury carpets.
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Climate meltdown
Wildfires, floods, hurricanes made 2020 record breaking. What it says about climate change
