Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Life Changers - Anita Sengupta
Nasa engineer Anita Sengupta on landing a rover on Mars
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Life Changers - Venki Ramakrishnan
Kevin Fong talks to the Indian-born Nobel Laureate Professor Venki Ramakrishnan
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Life Changers - Kathryn Maitland
Kathryn Maitland has a burning passion to transform clinical research across Africa.
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Women on the 鈥楶roblem with Science鈥�
A global perspective on the barriers to women in science.
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Truth about the Body Mass Index
As Dr Mark Porter's waistline increases he puts his body mass index, or BMI, to the test.
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The Great Telescopes and Evolution
Simon Schaffer tells of the astronomers who grappled with evolution long before Darwin.
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Death of a Physicist
Henry Moseley was seen as Britain鈥檚 greatest physicist, but was killed in World War One
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The Colour Purple
How William Perkin brought purple to the people in Victorian London
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Maurice Wilkins
The third man behind the unravelling of DNA's double helix Maurice Wilkins
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James Watt and Steam Power
How the engine that powered the industrial revolution nearly ran out of steam
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Sounds Of Space: Deep Space
Voyaging further into deep space, with astronomer, Dr Lucie Green.
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Sounds of Space: The Solar System
Take a sonic journey through the Solar System with astronomer, Dr Lucie Green
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Future of European Science
The European Research Council鈥檚 policy of backing high risk, high gain basic science
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The Bone Wars
The tale of dinosaur hunters Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh and their legendary feud
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Stephanie Shirley: Software Pioneer
Dame Stephanie Shirley made a fortune selling computer programmes to companies
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Origins of War
Is war a uniquely human act or can its origins be found in our evolutionary past?
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What the Songbird Said
The science of birdsong and its relationship to human language
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Shedding Light on the Brain
Biologists use light to explore the brain - and to alter it
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Future of Solar Energy
Roland Pease explores Perovskite, the new material experts say will transform solar power
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Scotland's Forgotten Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell
How the Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell paved the way for today's technology
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Science of Stammering
Exploring the condition of stammering, widely misunderstood and occurs in all cultures
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Jane Francis
The director of the British Antarctic Survey, Jane Francis talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
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The Teenage Brain: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
A cognitive neuroscientist unlocks the mysteries of the teenage brain
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Matt Taylor
The Rosetta comet mission and the man in charge of landing the robot Philae on comet 67P
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John O'Keefe
Nobel Prize 2014 winner John O'Keefe on his work on spatial ability and basketball
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Does Money Make you Mean?
Hong Kong psychologists test the effects of money from our generosity to agression
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Does Money Make you Mean?
Does becoming rich make you less kind to those around you?
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Finding Your Voice
The impact of selective mutism, a condition often described as a phobia of speaking
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Placebo Problem
The medical phenomenon of the nocebo effect, the fear that something is harmful
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Throwaway Society 2/2
Can the world鈥檚 companies manufacture four times more stuff without gutting the planet?
