Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Sexual Nature 2/3
How did sex begin and why do some many species keep doing it?
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Sexual Nature 1/3
Frolicking fossils and suggestive theories - the evolutionary history of sex
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Quantum Biology
What is quantum biology and why is it important?
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The ENCODE Project
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
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John Gurdon
2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep
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Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea
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The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist
Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.
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Why do women outlive men
Why do women live longer than men? Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing
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Piltdown Man
Piltdown Man – could such a shocking case of scientific fraud happen again?
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Particle Physics
What are particle physicists doing after finding the Higgs boson?
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Last Man, First Scientist on the Moon
An interview with the only geologist to explore the moon's surface, Harrison Schmitt
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Hallucination 2/2
Geoff Watts explores the science of hallucination.
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Hallucination 1/2
Understanding hallucination may provide new treatments for psychosis and schizophrenia
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The Age We Made
How might cities, mobile phones and humans become fossilised in years to come?
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The Age We Made - Part 3
Are humans launching a new geological epoch through species extinction and farming?
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The Age We Made - Part 2
Are humans creating a new geological epoch through climate change and fossil fuels?
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The Age We Made - Part 1
Is humanity launching a new geological age on the Earth?
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End of Drug Discovery
Speeding up the drug development process to treat the major diseases facing us
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End of Drug Discovery
The long and expensive struggle to get medicines to market
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The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist
Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.
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The sound of deafness
The science of hearing; cochlear implants; the sound of deafness
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Darwin's Tunes
Can you apply Darwin's theory of natural selection to music and create the perfect tune?
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Frankenstein's Moon
Lunar and stellar insights on Hamlet and Frankenstein. Astronomy and literature collide.
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The Life Scientific : Lloyd Peck - Antarctic Scientist
Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders.
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The Life Scientific : Barbara Sahakian - Neuroscientist
Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian about her Life Scientific.
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Saving the Ganges River Dolphin
On the Brahmaputra, counting and saving the Ganges River Dolphin.
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Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars
Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars – the search for extraterrestrial life steps up.
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Future Flight: Prog 2 of 2
Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who are designing flying cars and green aircraft.
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Future Flight: Prog 1 of 2
Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who will transform the way we fly around the world.
