Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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What has Happened to El Nino?
What is making this year’s predicted El Nino so hard to forecast?
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Swarming Robots
Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots
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Anaesthesia
How do general anaesthetics work in the body?
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Janet Hemingway
Janet Hemingway on malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance with Jim al-Khalili
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Ageing and the Brain
Do our mental powers really decline in old age?
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Driverless Cars
The engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves
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Driverless Cars
The future cars with sensors that can send messages to other cars, trucks and pedestrians
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Taming the Sun
ITER, the world's effort to harness nuclear fusion, and the most complex experiment ever
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Beauty and the Brain
Dr Tiffany Jenkins explores what neuroscience knows about art
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Alf Adams
Alf Adams remembers his small idea that changed the world, with Jim Al-Khalili.
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Mark Miodownik
Mark Miodownik talks nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials with Jim Al-Khalili.
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Sue Black
Forensic scientist Sue Black on the clues she uses to identify human bodies
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Whatever Happened to Biofuels - Part Two
Gaia Vince asks if we can ever run our vehicles on biofuels from algae or bacteria.
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Whatever Happened to Biofuels?
Can we make biofuels from the sugars in the inedible parts of plants?
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Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs opens up to Jim Al-Khalili about the Higgs boson.
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Vikram Patel
Jim al-Khalili discusses global mental health with psychiatrist Professor Vikram Patel
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Inside the Shark's Mind
Can science stop sharks attacking humans?
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The Biology of Freedom
Is free will unique to humans or a biological trait that evolved over time?
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Fructose: the Bittersweet Sugar
Is fructose a 'toxic additive' or a healthy fruit sugar?
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Hack my Hearing
Can hacking hearing aids create a new super sense for people with hearing loss?
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Show me the Way to Go ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
How animals navigate, from homing instincts to smell maps and astronomy
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Saving the Oceans - Part Four
Aboriginal knowledge and modern science helps to preserve Australia’s marine ecology
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Saving the Oceans - Part Three
Commercial fishing’s impact on bird evolution, and the threat of coral eating starfish
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Saving the Oceans - Part Two
Saving sharks and snails in the Pacific using modern technology and traditional practice
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Saving the Oceans - Part One
Tackling the problems of population and rising seas for the Pacific islands of Kirabati
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Fixing Nitrogen
What are alternatives to the process that takes nitrogen from the air to make fertilizer?
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Chronotypes
Why are some people 'early birds' while others are 'night owls'?
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Geoengineering
Can putting chemicals in the stratosphere to block the sun stop global warming?
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The Return To Mawson's Antarctica - Part Four
The mission to rescue the Australian Antarctic Expedition trapped in ice for 10 days
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The Return to Mawson's Antarctica - Part Three
Penguins, seals and a stranded vessel - join the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013