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Discovery Episodes

  1. The First Forests

    Andrew Luck-Baker reports on the latest fossil discoveries including strange leafless trees and petrified, wooded landscapes.

  2. The First Forests

    The oldest fossil forests and their profound effect on evolution

  3. The evolution of human Childhood

    Why do human beings take so much longer to grow up than even our closest ape relatives?

  4. The Evidence: Young people, lifting lockdowns, USA and Kenya updates

    International experts take a look at the science surrounding Covid-19

  5. The Evidence: When will the pandemic end?

    Lessons from Omicron to end the pandemic

  6. The Evidence: When misinformation kills

    Tackling the 鈥渋nfodemic鈥� 鈥� misinformation and Covid-19

  7. The Evidence: War trauma and mental health

    The psychological suffering caused by the toxic stress of war and conflict

  8. The Evidence: To boost or not to boost?

    The science and the ethics of vaccine booster shots

  9. The Evidence: The Shapeshifting Virus

    Will new vaccines work against the more infectious versions of the coronavirus?

  10. The Evidence: The science of the menopause

    How is the menopause viewed around the world? Claudia Hammond unpacks the latest science

  11. The Evidence: The nature of mental health

    Plant power and mental health. Is a nature-cure a cure-all?

  12. The Evidence: Taiwan, Vaccines, Africa Preparedness

    International experts discuss the latest research into Covid-19

  13. The Evidence: Sharing Vaccines 鈥� what鈥檚 gone wrong?

    The ethics of putting children in rich countries ahead in the global vaccine queue

  14. The Evidence: Salt

    You eat it every day, but how much do you know about the incredible science of salt?

  15. The Evidence: Pandemic rules: follower or flouter?

    Why a sense of 鈥渨e鈥� rather than 鈥淚鈥� makes us more likely to follow pandemic rules

  16. The Evidence: Mental health and the pandemic

    Mental health distress has risen around the world. How can people's suffering be eased?

  17. The Evidence: Mental health and Covid 19

    How is our mental health during the pandemic?

  18. The Evidence: Maternal Health in Malawi

    Why do so many women die due to childbirth?

  19. The Evidence: Keeping out Covid-19

    The virus knows no borders, so do international travel restrictions work for Covid-19?

  20. The Evidence: Is the world becoming more allergic?

    Exploring the effect science has on the world around us

  21. The Evidence: How will the pandemic end?

    Keeping a lid on risks of new covid variants as vaccinated countries ease restrictions

  22. The Evidence: How pandemics end

    Is it premature to say the pandemic is over?

  23. The Evidence: How Covid damages the human body

    Covid the chameleon - the multiple ways this virus attacks our bodies

  24. The Evidence: Healthcare pushed out by the pandemic

    The killer diseases ignored because of Covid-19

  25. The Evidence: Exploring the concept of solastalgia

    The feeling of pain or distress associated with environmental change close to your home

  26. The Evidence: Drug-resistant superbugs

    The silent pandemic - drug resistant infections threaten the future of modern medicine

  27. The Evidence: Covid lessons for safe school reopening

    Will schools and colleges reopening fuel Covid-19 spread?

  28. The Evidence: Covid 19: vaccines and after lockdown

    The latest on vaccines and how people are behaving after lockdown

  29. The Evidence: Covid 19: Transmission and South America

    How South America is handling the pandemic and a look at disease transmission.

  30. The Evidence: Covid 19: Sub-Saharan Africa and Testing

    How sub-Saharan Africa is handling the pandemic and the different kinds of tests

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