Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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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’s 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’s greatest predators by the people who know them best
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Tooth and claw: Crocodiles
Adam Hart explores Earth’s greatest predators, starting with the crocodile
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Peter Goadsby on migraine
Peter Goadsby on migraine attacks and the new treatments his research has inspired.
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Patient zero: First outbreak
How did smallpox reach Australia?
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Patient zero: Back from the brink
When polio returned to Asia Pacific
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Patient zero Ticking time bomb
Meningitis outbreak across US
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Patient zero: Spillover in suburbia
Mystery disease killing horses – and people
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The noises that make us cringe
Why do some people find noises like a fork scraping a plate so terrible?
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The Hamster Power Hypothesis
How many hamsters on wheels would it take to power London? asks Judah from Virginia, USA.
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The Martian Mission
Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.
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The equal rights stuff
When women and minorities first went into space
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Lithium: Chile’s white gold
Why lithium makes such good batteries
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Patient zero: Coronavirus and contact tracing
Patient Zero tells the stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin and why they happen
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Patient zero: The December transplant
Patient Zero tells the stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin and why they happen
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Patient zero: something in the water
Patient Zero tells the stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin and why they happen.
