Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Smelly people
Prof Ben Garrod uses new tech to sniff things out, and explores extending our senses
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Sound solutions
Prof Ben Garrod meets conservationists with sound solutions to protect animal habitats
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Seeing more
The new technologies pushing the boundaries of what we can see, hear, smell, and feel
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Sperm counts
Are sperm counts falling?
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Psychedelics
How psychedelics are shaking up psychiatry
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Fungal pandemic threat
Why invasive fungal infections are on the rise and a potential pandemic could be a threat
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Food Insecurity
Explorations in the world of science.
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Maggots in medicine
The healthcare professionals who are turning to maggot therapy to help clean up wounds
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Lazy guide to exercise
What is the least amount of exercise you can do to still stay healthy?
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The impossible number
The Curious Cases team get to grips with the very real uses of imaginary numbers
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The mind-numbing medicine
The Curious Cases team investigate the magical properties of anaesthetics.
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The resurrection quest
The Curious Cases team ask if it's possible - or desirable - to bring back extinct species
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The puzzle of the pyramids
The Curious Cases team discovers how Egypt's pyramids were really built.
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The magnetic mystery
The Curious Cases team explore the strange world of magnetism
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The Case of The Blind Man's Eye
Why can't I see images in my mind?
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Judith Bunbury: Unearthing the secrets of Ancient Egypt
Dr Judith Bunbury on enriching our knowledge of ancient Egypt and beyond
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The Life Scientific: Clifford Johnson
New approaches to quantum questions and using science in films.
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The Life Scientific: Rebecca Kilner
Jim al-Khalili hears how insects helped Rebecca Kilner solve evolutionary mysteries
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The Life Scientific: Tim Lamont
Jim Al-Khalili meets Tim Lamont, a young ecologist making waves restoring coral reefs.
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Bad Blood: Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
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Bad Blood: The curse of Mendel
How Gregor Mendel discovered the gene, an insight which inspired eugenics from the 1900s
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Bad Blood: Rassenhygiene
The mass sterilisation of those deemed ‘unfit’ by the Nazis in the name of eugenics
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Bad Blood: Birth controlled
The women forcibly sterilised against their will and the campaign for birth control
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Bad Blood: You will not replace us
The rise of the idea that immigrants will out-breed and replace the dominant white 'race'
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Bad Blood: You've got good genes
The origins of Eugenics and the idea that we could breed ourselves to a brighter future
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Tooth and Claw: Cougar
Explorations in the world of science.
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Tooth and Claw: Wasps
Explorations in the world of science.
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Tooth and Claw: African Wild Dog
Explorations in the world of science.
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Tooth and Claw: Komodo dragon
Explorations in the world of science.
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Wild Inside: The Alpaca
Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the secrets to success of the alpaca.
