Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Cleaning Up the Oceans
Roland Pease asks what damage plastic waste is doing in the oceans
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Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part 4: The Arctic
New life, new dangers and new hopes for the endangered shorebirds on the tundra
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Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part Three: Yellow Sea North
Can China鈥檚 birdwatchers and North Korea鈥檚 economy save migratory birds from extinction?
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Life on the East Asian Flyway 鈥� Part Two: Yellow Sea South
Hear the calls of the Chinese bird hunter turned conservationist
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Life on the East Asian Flyway
The world鈥檚 greatest migration - countless birds fly north from Australia to the Arctic
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The Neglected Sense
Kathy Clugston is anosmic - she has no sense of smell and sets out to discover why
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After Ebola
Rebuilding Sierra Leone鈥檚 healthcare system
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Benefits of Bilingualism - Part Two
The benefits of bilingualism: keeping our minds healthy
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Benefits of Bilingualism - Part One
Gaia Vince explores the benefits of bilingualism for children
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Our Unnatural Selection
How humans are inadvertently driving the evolution of other species
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Science Stories: Series 2 - Margaret Cavendish
Aristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method
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Science Stories: Series 2 - Orgueil Meteorite
The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years.
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The Horn Dilemma
Will the sale of harvested rhino horn help to stop poaching?
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African Einsteins
Will Einstein鈥檚 successors be African? It鈥檚 very likely - and some of them will be women
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Feeding the World - Part Two
How to future proof our crops above and below ground, to endure climate change
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Feeding the World - Part One
Kathy Willis meets scientists seeking the genetic diversity to future-proof our crops
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Editing the Genome - Part Two
Should we try to wipe out mosquitoes? With CRISPR, it may now be possible.
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Editing the Genome
We have a powerful new tool to alter DNA. What medical uses should be off limits?
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Science Stories: Series 1 - Einstein鈥檚 Ice Box
What happened when Einstein decided to fix the fridge?
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Science Stories: Series 1 - Eels and Human Electricity
How an eel sparked our interest in electricity
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Science Stories: Series 1 - Cornelis Drebbel
The magical world of Cornelis Drebbel, inventor of the first submarine in 1621
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El Nino
El Nino in the Pacific is in full swing, threatening with flood, fire and famine
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An Infinite Monkey's Guide to General Relativity
Brian Cox and Robin Ince explore the legacy of Einstein's great theory.
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An Infinite Monkey's Guide to General Relativity
Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's great theory
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Scotland鈥檚 Dolphins
How photo-ID techniques are tracking protected bottlenose dolphins
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Nature's Numbers
What can babies and an Amazonian tribe tell us about the origins of mathematics?
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Nature's Numbers
What can animals tell us about the origins of our numerical abilities?
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Future of Energy
Jack Stewart looks at the future of the supply, demand, and viability of energy sources
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The Power of Equations
Jim al-Khalili and fellow physicists on the beauty and power of equations
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Enceladus: A second genesis of life at Saturn?
The best place to search for extra-terrestrial life among the planets.
