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Discovery Episodes

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    What’s the Tiniest Dinosaur?

    And how do bats differentiate their own echolocation signals?

  7. Can Anything Travel Faster Than Light?

    Plus, how can we measure the age of the Universe?

  8. Why Do We Dream?

    And are machines better than humans when it comes to recognising faces?

  9. Can We Use Chemistry to Bake the Perfect Cake?

    And what makes something sharp?

  10. Why Do Some Songs Get Stuck in Your Head?

    And why do I get so many static shocks?

  12. Bringing Schrodinger's Cat to Life

    Roland Pease meets the quantum scientists hoping to bring Schrodinger's cat to life

  14. The Far Future

    What fragments of our civilisation will persist 10,000 years in the future?

  15. Why We Cut Men

    Across the world, 1 in 3 men are circumcised. Mary-Ann Ochota investigates why we cut men

  16. The Power of Sloth

    Lucy Cooke discovers the joy of sloth and sloths and the benefits of being really slow.

  18. The Day the Earth Moved

    How scientists learned the earth’s crust is made up of shifting plates.

  20. Cheating the Atmosphere

    Dodgy emissions data could fatally undermine the Paris Climate Agreement

  21. Better Brains

    New hope for incurable neurodegenerative conditions such as dementia

  22. What would happen if you fell into a black hole?

    Plus, could we make a sonic weapon?

  23. What will happen when the Earth’s poles swap?

    And why do planets spin?

  24. Why can’t we remember being a baby?

    Plus, could a party balloon reach space?

  25. How do cats find their way home?

    Plus, why do we itch and should we scratch?

  26. How much of my body is bacteria?

    Plus, why do we have different blood types?

  27. Sydney Brenner: A Revolutionary Biologist

    Sydney Brenner talks about his part in the DNA revolution between the 1950s and 1980s

  28. SOS Snail

    Helen Scales reports on the international rescue mission to save the Partula snail

  29. Indian Science – The Colonial Legacy

    How did British imperialism affect India’s scientific development?

  30. India's Ancient Science

    Rediscovering influential Indian ideas on mathematics, metallurgy and engineering

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