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Human genome project
The importance of the human genome project in modern genetics
Technology - patently absurd?
The patent system is supposed to protect inventors and encourage innovation
Can the information revolution save the world?
Could IT be the catalyst that helps propel developing economies and societies
Warm World - burying greenhouse gases
Exploring the ways of storing greenhouse gases
Warm World - climate change
Can geological sequestration save us from climate change?
Warm World III - the future
What can be done in the future to offset the worst effects of climate change
Dark matter
Why cosmologists are confused over the existence and influence of dark matter
Shape Memory Alloys
Special report on the discovery and use of shape memory alloys
The Living Universe
A look at the continuing evolution of the cosmos
The Living Universe and the Big Bang
Exploration of the universe and the big bang theory
The Living Universe and Cosmology
A history of cosmology, commentators include the physicist Paul Davies
Metal Mickey comes of age
The programme looks at the debate over artificial intelligence, and what it is
Machines like us
How the design of machines is being made more and more with safety in mind
The Great Dinosaur Hunt - part one
The first in a three-part selected history of those who discovered the dinosaurs
The Great Dinosaur Hunt - part two
Machines like us?
Computers can now create and analyse images of the body, but can they be trusted?
Econophysics
The science of finance, and how traders, dealers and brokers avoid losses
Scarring
How our understanding of wound healing has been transformed
Perfect Pitch
Perfect pitch and its implications in brain activity
The New Alchemists - part one
Report on molecular science and the work of Italian scientist Vincenzo Balzani
The New Alchemists - part two
The second of Roland Pease's explorations of the frontiers of chemistry
The New Alchemists - part three
The third of Roland Pease's explorations of the frontiers of chemistry
Alchemy that could save the planet
Chemistry designed to reduce ecological damage and global warming
Black holes
The phenomenon of black holes explained
Pain and its role
The role of acute pain in the human body
Pain - a necessary evil
Geoff Watts explores the science of pain
The First Explorers - Australia
The prehistoric migration of humans, the first explorers on Earth
The First Explorers - Europe
Archaeologists are now turning to our genes to investigate the history of our species
The First Explorers - America and Asia
The first explorers who entered the American continent toward the end of the last Ice Age
Angiogenesis
Report on new medical treatment angiogenesis
Where to put nuclear waste
What is to be done with large amount of dangerous civilian nuclear waste around the world?