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Discovery Episodes

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    Origins of Human Culture

    What’s special about human culture

  2. Mind Reading

    Gaia Vince explores how scientists are trying to read others' minds.

  3. Custom of Cutting

    An investigation into female genital mutilation in East and West Africa

  4. The Inflamed Mind

    Can your immune system make you psychotic or depressed?

  5. The City that Fell into the Earth

    How do you move a city? Lesley Riddoch travels to Arctic Sweden to find out

  6. The Sun King of China

    Meet the undisputed leader of China's booming solar industry

  7. The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic

    Peter Gibbs explores Ascension Island, a barren Atlantic rock made fertile by man

  8. Creating the Crick

    Creating the Francis Crick Institute

  9. Black Holes: A Tale of Cosmic Death and Rebirth

    LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and the new astronomy of nature’s ultimate state of matter

  10. The Whale Menopause

    What do killer whales tell us about the human menopause?

  11. Reversing Parkinson's

    Cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease

  12. Could we send our litter into space?

    Plus, why is everything in space round?

  13. Why do we faint?

    And can animals count?

  14. Why do people shout on their cellphones?

    And what causes traffic jams?

  15. How do you make the perfect cup of tea?

    Plus, why do we cry? Is there any useful purpose?

  16. What makes gingers ginger?

    Plus, what is the point of body hair?

  17. China Science Rising

    Rebecca Morelle reports on China's science ambitions.

  18. The Power of Cute

    Lucy Cooke explores our seeming obsession with all things cute.

  19. Cleaning Up the Oceans

    Roland Pease asks what damage plastic waste is doing in the oceans

  20. Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part 4: The Arctic

    New life, new dangers and new hopes for the endangered shorebirds on the tundra

  21. Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part Three: Yellow Sea North

    Can China’s birdwatchers and North Korea’s economy save migratory birds from extinction?

  22. Life on the East Asian Flyway – Part Two: Yellow Sea South

    Hear the calls of the Chinese bird hunter turned conservationist

  23. Life on the East Asian Flyway

    The world’s greatest migration - countless birds fly north from Australia to the Arctic

  24. The Neglected Sense

    Kathy Clugston is anosmic - she has no sense of smell and sets out to discover why

  25. After Ebola

    Rebuilding Sierra Leone’s healthcare system

  26. Benefits of Bilingualism - Part Two

    The benefits of bilingualism: keeping our minds healthy

  27. Benefits of Bilingualism - Part One

    Gaia Vince explores the benefits of bilingualism for children

  28. Our Unnatural Selection

    How humans are inadvertently driving the evolution of other species

  29. Science Stories: Series 2 - Margaret Cavendish

    Aristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method

  30. Science Stories: Series 2 - Orgueil Meteorite

    The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years.

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