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Discovery Episodes

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    Preparing for the next pandemic

    Scientists warn it’s not if, but when, another pandemic will hit us

  2. Particles – Where did they come from?

    What are the particles making up the stuff we see around us and where did they come from?

  3. Particles – What is anti-matter?

    Particles, the basic building blocks of matter – and anti-matter

  4. Our Microbes and Our Health

    The astonishing and mysterious world of the human microbiome.

  5. Our Caffeine Habit

    What does caffeine do to us? Its chemistry and the techology of preparing caffeine drinks

  6. Oceans: What Lies Beneath – Unlocking biotech gold

    Why scientists are trawling the oceans for new compounds, chemicals and gene sequences

  7. Oceans: What Lies Beneath – Travels with Alvin

    Scientists aboard Alvin have found breathtaking and varied life in the oceans' depths

  8. Oceans: What Lies Beneath – Climate change

    How climate change could have the most devastating effects on our planet's deep oceans

  9. Oceans: What Lies Beneath – A new age of Discovery

    Why do oceanographers believe we are in a new golden age of oceanographic discovery?

  10. Oceans - What Lies Beneath

    Gabrielle Walker looks at how little we understand the oceans, and talks to scientists making extraordinary discoveries.

  11. Oceans - What Lies Beneath

    Gabrielle Walker looks at how little we understand the oceans, and talks to scientists making extraordinary discoveries.

  12. Oceans - What Lies Beneath

    Gabrielle Walker looks at how little we understand the oceans, and talks to scientists making extraordinary discoveries.

  13. Oceans - What Lies Beneath

    Gabrielle Walker looks at how little we understand the oceans, and talks to scientists making extraordinary discoveries.

  14. New Guinea Singing Dogs

    Is the New Guinea singing dog a relic of the first dogs that bonded with prehistoric man?

  15. New Galileos – the Large Binocular Telescope

    The Large Binocular Telescope will study Earthlike planets being born around distant stars

  16. New Galileos – the James Webb Space Telescope

    The giant James Webb Space Telescope that will replace the Hubble in five years' time

  19. Maths, Physics and the Financial Crisis

    What impact have maths and physics had on finance and economics?

  20. Looking into the Mind – When the Brain goes Wrong

    What happens when bits of our brain stop working normally?

  21. Looking into the Mind – Watching the Brain think

    Brain imaging techniques show scientists our thoughts and intentions

  23. Looking forward to the opening of SESAME

    The SESAME project in Jordan aims to heal old wounds through doing science together

  24. Lise Meitner

    Lise Meitner: the humanitarian physicist who unlocked the science of the atom bomb

  25. Light Fantastic – Metamaterials

    The new metamaterials that are extending the science and reach of optics

  26. Light Fantastic – Lasers

    Lasers and the full force of light

  27. Life's Soundtrack – The human voice

    How the sounds we make and the sounds we hear change during our lifetime

  28. Life's Soundtrack – Hearing the world

    Human hearing and what does a baby in the womb actually hear?

  30. Killing Insects for Conservation

    Killing insects in the name of research upsets some people. How do scientists justify it?

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