Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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What’s the Tiniest Dinosaur?
And how do bats differentiate their own echolocation signals?
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Can Anything Travel Faster Than Light?
Plus, how can we measure the age of the Universe?
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Why Do We Dream?
And are machines better than humans when it comes to recognising faces?
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Can We Use Chemistry to Bake the Perfect Cake?
And what makes something sharp?
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Why Do Some Songs Get Stuck in Your Head?
And why do I get so many static shocks?
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Bringing Schrodinger's Cat to Life
Roland Pease meets the quantum scientists hoping to bring Schrodinger's cat to life
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The Far Future
What fragments of our civilisation will persist 10,000 years in the future?
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Why We Cut Men
Across the world, 1 in 3 men are circumcised. Mary-Ann Ochota investigates why we cut men
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The Power of Sloth
Lucy Cooke discovers the joy of sloth and sloths and the benefits of being really slow.
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The Day the Earth Moved
How scientists learned the earth’s crust is made up of shifting plates.
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Cheating the Atmosphere
Dodgy emissions data could fatally undermine the Paris Climate Agreement
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Better Brains
New hope for incurable neurodegenerative conditions such as dementia
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What would happen if you fell into a black hole?
Plus, could we make a sonic weapon?
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What will happen when the Earth’s poles swap?
And why do planets spin?
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Why can’t we remember being a baby?
Plus, could a party balloon reach space?
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How do cats find their way home?
Plus, why do we itch and should we scratch?
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How much of my body is bacteria?
Plus, why do we have different blood types?
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Sydney Brenner: A Revolutionary Biologist
Sydney Brenner talks about his part in the DNA revolution between the 1950s and 1980s
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SOS Snail
Helen Scales reports on the international rescue mission to save the Partula snail
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Indian Science – The Colonial Legacy
How did British imperialism affect India’s scientific development?
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India's Ancient Science
Rediscovering influential Indian ideas on mathematics, metallurgy and engineering