Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Down Under - the geology of Australia
The ancient landscape of Australia
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Considering memory
A consideration of memory
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Viruses with an overcoat
The genetic manipulation of plants and how viruses with 'overcoats' can produce proteins
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The first cloned sheep
Scientists have cloned a lamb using a single cell from a sheep udder
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The coffee trade
Report on coffee, its trade, health implications and history
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The struggle to control parasites
Why the drugs used to treat parasites may not be so effective in the future
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Genetic screening
How genetic screening can help predict our future and the moral choices it may throw up
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Aggressive symbiosis
A look at why viruses that do animals no harm are so dangerous to humans
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Anti-Sense - shooting the messenger
A look at anti-sense medicine, which cancels out the effect of harmful genes
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Music enters the science age
The development of musical instruments using science
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The micro metropolis
The microbial metropolis, why bugs love living with each other
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The discovery of Hydrogen-3+
A report on the discovery of Hydrogen-3+
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Our first words
How humans learn their first words
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Treating cancer
Should medical science be changing its approach to treating cancer?
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Waging war on drug resistant bacteria
The war against drug resistant bacteria
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Jupiter's moons
The scientific success of the previously troubled mission to Jupiter
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Could mosquitos transmit the malaria vaccine?
A progress report on the latest antimalarial and transmission-blocked vaccines
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Comets - the bringers of life
Comets, why they could help scientists explain the origins of the solar system
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What chemicals came first?
The birth of the Earth and how the chemicals necessary for life on earth were made
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Extinction, creation and biodiversity
Extinction and the anniversary of the Smithsonian Institute
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Human Genome Project
A progress report on the human genome project which hopes to map the DNA of man
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
How depression could be treated through transcranial magnetic stimulation
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The planet Neptune
It's been 150 years since the discovery of the gas giant planet Neptune
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Volcanic crisis in Montserrat
Volcanic crisis in Montserrat in the Caribbean
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Flying with Pterodactyls
A report on the discovery of some well-preserved Pterodactyl skeletons
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Music and the Mind
Using music as guide to threading our way through our own minds
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Cell signalling and cancer
Report on the latest discovery into the causes of cancer
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Programmed cell death
Scientists are learning more about the process of programmed cell death
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Natural selection and healing
How the theory of natural selection is becoming important in healing
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Allergies
A new strategy for tackling all allergies
