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Discovery Episodes

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    Amoret Whitaker

    Forensic entomologist Amoret Whitaker on insects and their role in solving crimes

  2. Alan Watson

    Around a million cosmic rays pass through us every night but where do they come from?

  3. On The Trail of the American Honeybee

    Dr Adam Hart explores the impact of migratory bee-keeping in the United States

  4. On the Trail of the American Honeybee 1/2

    How honeybees and their keepers travel vast distances pollinating America's crops

  5. Deep Sea Vents

    Are newly discovered deep ocean ecosystems threatened by deep sea mining?

  6. After Sandy

    How can science protect New York from future super storms?

  7. The Crying Game

    Why do we cry and why are emotional tears a uniquely human trait?

  8. A Trip Around Mars - Part Two

    Canyons, craters and mountains: The spectacular Martian terrain carved by swathes of water

  9. A Trip Around Mars with Kevin Fong - Part One

    The alien mountains, canyons and craters that inspire scientists and writers

  10. Noel Sharkey

    Jim Al-Khalili talks to roboticist and psychologist, Noel Sharkey.

  11. Annette Karmiloff-Smith on toddlers and TV

    Should babies under two watch TV? Jim talks to psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith.

  12. Obituary: Margaret Thatcher

    An obituary of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

  13. Premiership Science

    Like football, science is an international endeavour complete with its own stars.

  14. What If... We could stay young forever? 3/3

    Peter Bowes concludes his exploration of the drive to live longer by looking at diet.

  15. What If... We could stay young forever? 2/3

    Peter Bowes asks if exercise and lifestyle changes hold the key to staying young.

  16. What If... We could stay young forever? 1/3

    Peter Bowes explores how science and lifestyle could hold the promise to staying young.

  17. What If... We could all become cyborgs?

    Dr Andrew Holding meets some of the people straddling the line between man and machine.

  18. Sexual Nature 3/3

    Life鈥檚 many paths to being female or male: in humans, komodo dragons and transexual fish

  19. Sexual Nature 2/3

    How did sex begin and why do some many species keep doing it?

  20. Sexual Nature 1/3

    Frolicking fossils and suggestive theories - the evolutionary history of sex

  21. Quantum Biology

    What is quantum biology and why is it important?

  22. The ENCODE Project

    Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.

  23. John Gurdon

    2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep

  24. Jared Diamond

    Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea

  25. The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist

    Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.

  26. Why do women outlive men

    Why do women live longer than men? Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing

  27. Piltdown Man

    Piltdown Man 鈥� could such a shocking case of scientific fraud happen again?

  28. Particle Physics

    What are particle physicists doing after finding the Higgs boson?

  29. Last Man, First Scientist on the Moon

    An interview with the only geologist to explore the moon's surface, Harrison Schmitt

  30. Hallucination 2/2

    Geoff Watts explores the science of hallucination.

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