Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Hallucination 1/2
Understanding hallucination may provide new treatments for psychosis and schizophrenia
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The Age We Made
How might cities, mobile phones and humans become fossilised in years to come?
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The Age We Made - Part 3
Are humans launching a new geological epoch through species extinction and farming?
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The Age We Made - Part 2
Are humans creating a new geological epoch through climate change and fossil fuels?
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The Age We Made - Part 1
Is humanity launching a new geological age on the Earth?
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End of Drug Discovery
Speeding up the drug development process to treat the major diseases facing us
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End of Drug Discovery
The long and expensive struggle to get medicines to market
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The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist
Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.
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The sound of deafness
The science of hearing; cochlear implants; the sound of deafness
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Darwin's Tunes
Can you apply Darwin's theory of natural selection to music and create the perfect tune?
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Frankenstein's Moon
Lunar and stellar insights on Hamlet and Frankenstein. Astronomy and literature collide.
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The Life Scientific : Lloyd Peck - Antarctic Scientist
Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders.
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The Life Scientific : Barbara Sahakian - Neuroscientist
Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian about her Life Scientific.
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Saving the Ganges River Dolphin
On the Brahmaputra, counting and saving the Ganges River Dolphin.
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Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars
Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars – the search for extraterrestrial life steps up.
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Future Flight: Prog 2 of 2
Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who are designing flying cars and green aircraft.
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Future Flight: Prog 1 of 2
Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who will transform the way we fly around the world.
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Artificial Photosynthesis
Prof Andrea Sella reports on the race to better nature at harnessing the sun's energy.
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Artificial Blood
Vivienne Parry meets scientists hoping to create artificial blood.
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Gene Therapy
Geoff Watts explores new techniques in gene therapy for cystic fibrosis
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Legacy Of Alan Turing - Episode Two
Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer.
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Legacy Of Alan Turing - Episode One
Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer
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Flu
Suppressed research into how bird flu could become more infectious has now been released.
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Transit of Venus 2012
Marek Kukula explores the science behind the Transit of Venus 2012.
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28/05/2012 GMT
Physicist Tejinder Virdee on the search for the elusive Higgs boson at Cern.
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Hurricane Rash
Kevin Fong looks at the birth of plastic surgery and its links to the air battles of WWII.
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The Science of Morality
Carinne Piekema explores the science of moral behaviour and the ethical issues this raises
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1000 Days: A Legacy of Life
Could health depend on what happens in the womb? Mark Porter reports on this new idea.
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Scott's Legacy: Programme 3 - Mars
Why do we need to send people to explore Mars – and who is likely to take them there?