Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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E-cigarettes
Do e-cigarettes really help smokers quit and are they safe?
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Raising Allosaurus
Can scientists bring extinct animals back from the dead?
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CERN and Science in Africa
The impact of the search for the Higgs boson on science teaching in Africa
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The Story of SARS, Part Two
Kevin Fong explores the personal and medical impact of SARS ten years on
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The Story of SARS, Part One
Meet the medical staff who fought to contain the spread of this pandemic
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Crossrail: Tunnelling under London
How 26 miles of precision engineered tunnels are created through London's erratic geology
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Oxytocin
Can taking the hormone oxytocin make people more sociable, trusting and loving?
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Forecasting Earthquakes
Can we ever reliably predict earthquakes to justify the cost of forecasting them?
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Plate Tectonics and Life
Plate tectonics: the force that shaped the Earth - and shaped the life on it
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Quorum Sensing
Can we beat bacteria by stopping the bugs from talking to each other?
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Build Me a Brain
Scientists connect cultures of living human neurons to robots to see how the brain works
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Solar Max
Astronomer Lucie Green looks at the dangers a solar superstorm could pose to us on Earth
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Amoret Whitaker
Forensic entomologist Amoret Whitaker on insects and their role in solving crimes
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Alan Watson
Around a million cosmic rays pass through us every night but where do they come from?
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On The Trail of the American Honeybee
Dr Adam Hart explores the impact of migratory bee-keeping in the United States
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On the Trail of the American Honeybee 1/2
How honeybees and their keepers travel vast distances pollinating America's crops
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Deep Sea Vents
Are newly discovered deep ocean ecosystems threatened by deep sea mining?
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After Sandy
How can science protect New York from future super storms?
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The Crying Game
Why do we cry and why are emotional tears a uniquely human trait?
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A Trip Around Mars - Part Two
Canyons, craters and mountains: The spectacular Martian terrain carved by swathes of water
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A Trip Around Mars with Kevin Fong - Part One
The alien mountains, canyons and craters that inspire scientists and writers
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Noel Sharkey
Jim Al-Khalili talks to roboticist and psychologist, Noel Sharkey.
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Annette Karmiloff-Smith on toddlers and TV
Should babies under two watch TV? Jim talks to psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith.
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Obituary: Margaret Thatcher
An obituary of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Premiership Science
Like football, science is an international endeavour complete with its own stars.
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What If... We could stay young forever? 3/3
Peter Bowes concludes his exploration of the drive to live longer by looking at diet.
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What If... We could stay young forever? 2/3
Peter Bowes asks if exercise and lifestyle changes hold the key to staying young.
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What If... We could stay young forever? 1/3
Peter Bowes explores how science and lifestyle could hold the promise to staying young.
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What If... We could all become cyborgs?
Dr Andrew Holding meets some of the people straddling the line between man and machine.
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Sexual Nature 3/3
Life鈥檚 many paths to being female or male: in humans, komodo dragons and transexual fish