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Disaster in Waiting? Mount Pelee eruption

British geologist and hazard expert Bill McGuire explores three natural disasters

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Disaster in Waiting? The Vajont Dam

The Vajont Dam Disaster in Italy 1963 remains the worst dam disaster of all time

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Megalithic expedition in Spain

Report from an archaeological dig at the Picos de Europa National Park in Spain

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Disaster in Waiting? Coastal flooding in England

The most serious flooding ever to hit Britain happened in East Anglia in 1953

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Mission to Mars

Paul Arnold continues his series about expeditions with probably the biggest one of all

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Performance clothing

Can sports clothing and equipment make a difference to an athlete's performance?

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Circadian rhythms

The importance of the human body's natural clock or circadian rhythms

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The shape of the universe

The science of cosmology, which involves measuring the unmeasurable

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Three years after Kyoto

A look at what has happened since the Kyoto agreement on climate change 3 years ago

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Conservation and consumerism

A report on conflicting priorities in conservation

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Life story - the Cambrian period

A look at life in the Cambrian period, 500 million years ago

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Life Story - the Proterozoic era

A look at life in the pre-Cambrian era, more than half a billion years ago

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Life Story - flying dinosaurs

How dinosaurs learned to fly

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Living computers

Living computers - a combination of technology and living organic tissue

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Gene Pioneers - part three

Discussion on gene therapy with guest Dr Inda Vermer

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Gene Pioneers - part one

Explosive progress of molecular genetics and the human genome project

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Human genome project

The importance of the human genome project in modern genetics

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Technology - patently absurd?

The patent system is supposed to protect inventors and encourage innovation

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Can the information revolution save the world?

Could IT be the catalyst that helps propel developing economies and societies

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Warm World - burying greenhouse gases

Exploring the ways of storing greenhouse gases

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Warm World - climate change

Can geological sequestration save us from climate change?

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Warm World III - the future

What can be done in the future to offset the worst effects of climate change

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Dark matter

Why cosmologists are confused over the existence and influence of dark matter

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Shape Memory Alloys

Special report on the discovery and use of shape memory alloys

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The Living Universe

A look at the continuing evolution of the cosmos

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The Living Universe and the Big Bang

Exploration of the universe and the big bang theory

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The Living Universe and Cosmology

A history of cosmology, commentators include the physicist Paul Davies

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Metal Mickey comes of age

The programme looks at the debate over artificial intelligence, and what it is

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Machines like us

How the design of machines is being made more and more with safety in mind

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The Great Dinosaur Hunt - part one

The first in a three-part selected history of those who discovered the dinosaurs

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