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Discovery Episodes

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    Hallucination 1/2

    Understanding hallucination may provide new treatments for psychosis and schizophrenia

  2. The Age We Made

    How might cities, mobile phones and humans become fossilised in years to come?

  3. The Age We Made - Part 3

    Are humans launching a new geological epoch through species extinction and farming?

  4. The Age We Made - Part 2

    Are humans creating a new geological epoch through climate change and fossil fuels?

  5. The Age We Made - Part 1

    Is humanity launching a new geological age on the Earth?

  6. End of Drug Discovery

    Speeding up the drug development process to treat the major diseases facing us

  7. End of Drug Discovery

    The long and expensive struggle to get medicines to market

  8. The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist

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

  9. The sound of deafness

    The science of hearing; cochlear implants; the sound of deafness

  10. Darwin's Tunes

    Can you apply Darwin's theory of natural selection to music and create the perfect tune?

  11. Frankenstein's Moon

    Lunar and stellar insights on Hamlet and Frankenstein. Astronomy and literature collide.

  12. The Life Scientific : Lloyd Peck - Antarctic Scientist

    Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders.

  13. The Life Scientific : Barbara Sahakian - Neuroscientist

    Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian about her Life Scientific.

  15. Saving the Ganges River Dolphin

    On the Brahmaputra, counting and saving the Ganges River Dolphin.

  16. Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars

    Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars 鈥� the search for extraterrestrial life steps up.

  17. Future Flight: Prog 2 of 2

    Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who are designing flying cars and green aircraft.

  18. Future Flight: Prog 1 of 2

    Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who will transform the way we fly around the world.

  19. Artificial Photosynthesis

    Prof Andrea Sella reports on the race to better nature at harnessing the sun's energy.

  20. Artificial Blood

    Vivienne Parry meets scientists hoping to create artificial blood.

  21. Gene Therapy

    Geoff Watts explores new techniques in gene therapy for cystic fibrosis

  22. Legacy Of Alan Turing - Episode Two

    Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer.

  23. Legacy Of Alan Turing - Episode One

    Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer

  24. Flu

    Suppressed research into how bird flu could become more infectious has now been released.

  25. Transit of Venus 2012

    Marek Kukula explores the science behind the Transit of Venus 2012.

  26. 28/05/2012 GMT

    Physicist Tejinder Virdee on the search for the elusive Higgs boson at Cern.

  27. Hurricane Rash

    Kevin Fong looks at the birth of plastic surgery and its links to the air battles of WWII.

  28. The Science of Morality

    Carinne Piekema explores the science of moral behaviour and the ethical issues this raises

  29. 1000 Days: A Legacy of Life

    Could health depend on what happens in the womb? Mark Porter reports on this new idea.

  30. Scott's Legacy: Programme 3 - Mars

    Why do we need to send people to explore Mars 鈥� and who is likely to take them there?

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