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Discovery Episodes

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    Keyhole Surgery

    A special report on keyhole surgery

  2. The Human Brain

    Unravelling the workings of the human brain

  3. The Fight Against Aids

    The world fight against Aids. Also, a new test for memory

  4. Turkey

    A special edition looking at the geology and astrology of Turkey

  5. Virtual Reality

    How realistic is virtual reality? And when will the technology be publicly available?

  6. The 125th Anniversary of Nature Magazine

    From the discovery of the electron in 1897 to Watson and Crick's structure of DNA in 1953

  7. Woods Hole

    A special report from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts

  8. High Blood Pressure

    How naturally produced endothelin-1 effects blood pressure

  9. Auditory Discrimination

    How does auditory discrimination work?

  10. Learning to Speak

    How do children learn to speak, and why do some learn more slowly that others?

  11. 1000th Edition

    Featuring transgenic sheep: particle physics: and Nobel laureate Professor George Porter

  12. Reducing the Greenhouse Effect

    Reducing the greenhouse effect, and computers that can learn to solve problems

  13. Good Vibrations

    The scientific principles of stringed instruments

  14. Animal Behaviour

    How studying animal behaviour could improve animal welfare

  15. Gene Therapy

    How gene therapy could be used to fight deadly forms of cancer

  16. Death

    Why do we have to die, what can kill us and what happens to the body after death?

  17. New Frontiers in Science

    Imaging technology in brain surgery, and HERA, the electron-proton collider in Hamburg

  18. St Pancras Station

    Report from St Pancras Station in London as architects fight to save the building

  19. Francis Crick

    Nobel Laureate Francis Crick with his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis

  20. Boxgrove Man

    Dr Chris Stringer, Boxgrove Man, and the origins of Europeans

  21. New Glass, Better Lenses

    How new glass technology will create better lenses

  22. Murder, Magic, and Medicine

    The history of extracting chemical substances from natural sources - including poisons

  23. Top Quark

    Have scientists in Chicago really found a dozen examples of "top quark"?

  24. Computer Musical Appreciation

    Could a computer ever learn to appreciate Louis Armstrong?

  25. Designer Sperm

    Could human sperm be genetically altered?

  26. Languages

    How long ago did languages evolve?

  27. New Bush Babies

    Four new species of bush babies are discovered in Africa - but could there be many more?

  28. Facial Attraction

    What makes a face attractive?

  29. Guildhall Archaeological Dig

    A Roman amphitheatre and Saxon remains are discovered in the heart of London

  30. Synaesthesia

    Exploring synaesthesia - a world of salty vision and purple odours

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