Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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The weirdness of water, Part 2 of 2
Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry attempt to answer more questions on why water is weird
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The weirdness of water, Part 1 of 2
鈥楶lease explain the weirdness of water?鈥� asks Neil Morton in Stirling in Scotland.
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The guiding hound
How do guide dogs know where they're going?
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The James Webb Space Telescope
A new giant space telescope that will show us the first stars that shone in the universe
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Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares
Gene edited babies and gene drives to eradicate pests
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Genetic dreams, genetic nightmares
How genetic engineering became big business
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Genetic dreams, genetic nightmares
The story of the controversial birth of genetic engineering in the 1970s.
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Listening to coral reefs
Conservationist Rory Crawford meets the scientists surveying coral reefs using sound
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Geoengineering The Planet
How we cool the planet with the latest geoengineering technologies.
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Geoengineering The Planet
Geoengineering: can it work?
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Chilean mummies
Jane Chambers learns about the world's oldest examples of mummification
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Earthshot 3 - The prize winners
Five categories, a million pounds in each. Who has won the Earthshot prize?
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Earthshot 2 鈥� Tackling our energy crisis
Balancing our growing need for electricity while addressing climate change
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Earthshot 1
Winning ideas to improve the world around us.
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China's great science leap
Will China鈥檚 ambitions in space, quantum & biotech lead it to science super-power status?
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China's great science leap
Is China set to become the next science superpower?
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Covid origins: The science
What the science says about the start of the pandemic
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Future vaccines
How the pandemic will change the vaccine landscape
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Tamsin Edwards on the uncertainty in climate science
All climate change models are wrong. Tamsin Edwards tells Jim Al Khalili why.
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The Life Scientific: Professor Martin Sweeting
How Martin Sweeting made a satellite on his kitchen table
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The Life Scientific: Dr Nira Chamberlain
Nira Chamberlain on how mathematics can solve real-world problems.
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Lost for words
David Shariatmadari explores the science of language, dementia and ageing
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A sense of music
What happens when music meets the animal mind?
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Dare to repair: Fixing the future
How does repair and repair-ability fit into our sustainable future?
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Dare to repair: The fight for the right to repair
Exploring how citizens are fighting back for the right to repair their own stuff
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Dare to Repair: How we broke the future
Why electronic gadgets dont last as long as they used to and why repairing them is hard.
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Tooth and claw: Tigers
What's it like facing a charging tiger and how best can we protect their growing numbers?
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Tooth and claw: Bears
Adam Hart explores our complex relationship with bears
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Tooth and claw: Lions
Our complex relationship with Earth鈥檚 greatest predators by the people who know them best
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Tooth and claw: Crocodiles
Adam Hart explores Earth鈥檚 greatest predators, starting with the crocodile