Discovery
By BBC World Service
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Podcast Description
Each week, Discovery takes an in-depth look at the most significant ideas, discoveries and trends in science, from the smallest microbe to the furthest corner of space.
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Discovery: Hurricane Rash | Kevin Fong looks at the surprising and heroic origins of modern day plastic and reconstructive surgery, born not in the operating rooms of Hollywood, but in the great air-battles of World War II. | 21 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Science of Morality | How fixed are our moral beliefs? Carinne Piekema investigates how advances in psychology and neuroscience are starting to shed light on our moral choices. | 14 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: 1000 Days - A Legacy of Life | Mark Porter explores the new idea that your health as an adult is partly determined by what happens to you in the womb. | 7 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Scott's Legacy: Programme 3 - Mars | One hundred years ago, the first humans reached the South Pole of this planet. More than 40 years ago, man first walked on the moon. When will our species first set foot to explore the planet Mars? Kevin Fong seeks a likely launch date, and asks who will get us there and why we really need to explore the Red Planet. He talks to Elon Musk, founder of the rocket company SpaceX. The commercial space pioneer claims that he has worked out to take humans to Mars for $500,000 per passenger with a new kind of reusable spacecraft. | 30 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Scott's Legacy: Programme 2 - Moon | 100 years ago, Scott reached the South Pole. 50 years later, the first geologist briefly walked on the Moon. Kevin Fong asks if why we might want to return to the lunar surface and what will get us. He talks to that first lunar geologist of Apollo 17, Harrison Schmitt and NASA’s Chief Administrator Charles Bolden, among others. | 23 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Scott's Legacy: Programme 1 - Antarctica | One hundred years ago, Robert Scott's bid to lead the first expedition to reach the South Pole may have ended in tragic failure but Kevin Fong argues the scientific discoveries were much more important than who won the polar race. | 16 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Titanic - In Her Own Words 09 Apr 12 | To mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the BBC’s Sean Coughlan narrates one of the most authentic versions of events in existence. Using voice synthesis to re-create the strange, twitter-like, mechanical brevity of the original Morse code, this programme brings to life the tragedy through the ears of the wireless operators in the area that night. | 9 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Global Body 4 of 4 - Sydney 02 Apr 12 | In the last of the Global Body series, Lynne Malcolm is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the future of the health of the human body. | 2 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Global Body 3 of 4 - Los Angeles 26 Mar 12 | In Global Body, Lynne Malcolm discovers if the Hollywood dream is really true for the health of millions of LA immigrants. | 26 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Global Body 2 of 4 - Manila 19 Mar 12 | Global Body goes to Manila to look at the health consequences of moving from the countryside to the city. | 19 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Global Body 1 of 4 - Sri Lanka 12 Mar 12 | Lynne Malcolm reports on how the modern world is affecting our biology. This week, rural life in Sri Lanka. | 12 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Fukushima Anniversary 05 Mar 12 | The Scientific legacy of the Fukushima nuclear accident | 5 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Beyond The Abyss 2 of 2 27 Feb 12 | Rebecca Morelle reports on what scientists have discovered in the deepest parts of the oceans. | 27 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Beyond The Abyss 1 of 2 20 Feb 12 | Rebecca Morelle meets the explorers building submersibles to return to the deepest point of the ocean, the Mariana Trench. | 20 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Time 13 Feb 12 | Science writer Zeeya Merali joins an international group of scientists as they gather to discuss the nature of time. | 13 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Smart Streets 06 Feb 12 | Angela Saini explores the revolution taking place in the streets beneath our feet as she reveals the story behind a new urban design movement called shared space | 6 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Depression 30 Jan 12 | Geoff Watts meets researchers trying to find a new way to fight depression by studying those who never get it. | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Depression 23 Jan 12 | Geoff Watts meets researchers looking for clues to the origins of depression as a way of finding new solutions to treating it. | 23 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: SETI, prog 2, 16 Jan 11 | Documentary series exploring the past, present and future of SETI | 16 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: SETI, prog 1, 09 Jan 12 | Documentary series exploring the past, present and future of SETI | 9 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Hypersonic Flight 2 Jan 12 | Flying at many times the speed of sound has been an elusive goal of aeronautical engineers for many years. Gareth Mitchell looks at how near we are to achieving hypersonic flight. | 2 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Spooklights 26 Dec 11 | Chemist Andrea Sella investigates things that go flash in the dark. | 26 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Steven Pinker | AC Grayling in conversation with Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind. | 23 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Higgs particles at CERN 19 Dec 11 | Higgs particles at CERN. Roland Pease gets to meet the scientists and hears whether they’ve made a discovery. | 19 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Gebisa Ejeta | AC Grayling in conversation with Gebisa Ejeta, a World Food Prize Laureate and an advisor to President Barrack Obama. | 17 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Antivirals 12 Dec 11 | Antivirals. Kevin Fong looks at new techniques aiming to cure all viral infections | 12 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Valerie Mizrahi | Valerie Mizrahi is the Director of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town, where she has done ground-breaking work on tuberculosis. Join her in conversation with AC Grayling, where she talks about her zeal for medical research and her determination to bring life saving innovations to the developing world. | 9 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Crucial role of Leptin in the body | Leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells, failed to be a wonder solution to obesity 20 years ago. But now scientists believe it's critical to how the body works. Vivienne Parry investigates. | 5 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Vilayanur Ramachandran | Vilayanur Ramachandran has been called the Marco Polo of neuroscience. Join him in conversation with AC Grayling, as he demonstrates some of the simple experiments which reveal hidden truths about all of our brains. | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Antarctic subglacial lake exploration | One hundred years since humans first ventured to the South Pole, we are on the verge of a new era in Antarctic exploration. In Discovery Andrew Luck-Baker talks to scientists who’ll soon be entering the last untouched realms on the planet. They’re poised to drill into ancient lakes trapped beneath thousands of metres of polar ice. The scientists will search for unique forms of life in them and their efforts might ultimately lead to finding life on other worlds. | 28 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Sir Paul Nurse | Sir Paul Nurse is a Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist and the new President of The Royal Society, the oldest science establishment in the world. Join him in conversation with AC Grayling, about the cell cycle, trying to cure cancer and his thoughts for the future of science. | 25 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Neutrinos 21 Nov 11 | Roland Pease investigates whether scientists observed neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light, a result that could have enormous implications for physics and prove Einstein wrong. | 21 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Robots that Care, programme 2 - 14 Nov 11 | Jon Stewart examines the growing use of social robots | 14 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Robots that Care, programme 1 - 7 Nov 11 | Jon Stewart examines how scientists are trying to bridge the gap between robots and humans. | 7 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: India's e-governance project 31 Oct 11 | Angela Saini reports from India on the country’s vast e-governance project aimed at driving out corruption, reducing bureaucracy and getting the nation’s 1.2 billion people online. | 31 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Tribes of Science 3 - 24 Oct 11 | Discovery - Tribes of Science - Peter Curran meets the volcanologists, holders of what one British magazine claimed was the second coolest job in the world after being an astronaut. | 24 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Tribes of Science 2 - 17 Oct 11 | Discovery – Tribes of Science - Peter Curran meets the beam line scientists, the guides to the UK’s largest particle accelerator. | 17 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Tribes of Science 1 - 10 Oct 11 | Tribes of Science - Peter Curran puts archaeologists under his anthropological microscope. | 10 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Aboriginal Astronomy 3 Oct 11 | Aboriginal Astronomy – does the unearthing of an "Aboriginal “Stonehenge” change the history of astronomy? | 3 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: In Our Own Image prog 3 | Are humans still evolving? – Part 3 of 3 | 26 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: In Our Own Image prog 2 | Are we still evolving – part 2 | 19 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: In Our Own Image prog 1 | Adam Rutherford asks how our ability to talk, travel and develop technology - our unique human culture, affects human genetic evolution. | 12 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Artificial Gene | The world’s first animal with an artificial genetic code. Roland Pease reports | 5 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Happy Birthday, Neptune | Tracey Logan investigates how Neptune was found, 165 years ago, and what secrets it still holds | 29 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: From Cradle to Grave | Dr Ben Goldacre explores the past, present and future of epidemiology. | 22 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Green Ears | Horticultural science has been used to improve the sights and smells of plants for centuries. But what can physics do to improve how a garden sounds? | 15 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Ageing & Telomeres 2 | If you're among the lucky few, you'll live past 90 without suffering years of debilitating illnesses. Your final decline will come swiftly and relatively gently. In this week's Discovery Andrew Luck-Baker looks at whether scientists can extend this kind of final exit to many more of us. Their research centres on structures in our cells known as telomeres. More immediately, this science may also lead to a kind of new cancer therapy. | 8 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Telomeres | Is there a test that tells you how long you’ll live? If you read and believed some newspaper headlines in recent months, you might think so. The claim surrounds an area of ageing research known as telomere biology. Telomeres are DNA structures which cap the ends of our chromosomes. They shorten over the course of our lives. Some scientists believe measuring their length reveals how fast we are ageing biologically and are making telomere tests available to the public for the first time. What’s the science behind telomere length and what can it really tell you about your heath and life prospects? Andrew Luck-Baker reports from a meeting of leading telomere researchers in Stockholm. | 1 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Nakhla meteorite | Dr Marek Kukula tells the story of a meteorite that landed in Egypt a century ago, which is helping astronomers explore Mars today. | 25 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Tsunami 3 | The Magnitude 9 earthquake that hit the coast of Japan in March was the most powerful in the country’s recorded history – but what awaits the country in the future? Roland Pease reports. | 18 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Tsunami 2 | Around 25,000 died in the tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 this year. The authorities had built defences against possible tsunamis and prepared evacuation plans. But these had not considered the scale of events that actually happened. Roland Pease talks to the experts in Japan about how the science failed the victims. Programme 2 of 3. | 11 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Tsunami | Tsunami – Roland Pease joins scientists investigating the effects of the terrible tsunami in Japan last March. Did the extensive preparations save lives? | 5 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: GM Animals | GM animals, Pigs with bright green noses and glowing chickens on your dinner table soon. | 27 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Bacteria | Why bacteria can be a good thing. | 20 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Monkey Talk | Can monkeys talk? | 13 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Aids | 5 cases of an unusual disease 30 years ago were the first signs of what became the global AIDS pandemic. | 6 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: James Gleick | Colin Grant talks to James Gleick, about his book, The Information, a history of information. | 30 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Dengue fever | We report on the implications of the world's first release of genetically modified mosquitoes in a populated area where Dengue Fever is rife. | 23 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Smallpox | As the World Health Organisation's annual assembly takes place in Geneva, Jon Stewart asks if they should take the decision finally to destroy remaining stocks of smallpox virus that have been held in the USA and Russia since the eradication of the disease was announced in 1980. | 16 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Inflight Science | Inflight Science - Brian Clegg guides Jon Stewart in the science of aeroplane flight | 9 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: 02 May 2011: Square Kilometre Array | Astronomer Dr Lucie Green hears about the Square Kilometre Array; 3000 radio telescopes spread across a continent that could search for habitable planets, intelligent life and new-born galaxies | 2 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Surgery | Surgeons are great innovators but are they good researchers? Do they need to be? In this Discovery, Geoff Watts asks the question "Is Surgery Scientific?" | 21 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Happiness | Claudia Hammond investigates why happiness seems to have hit the headlines recently and asks whether a happier nation would ultimately be a more successful one, as she goes "In Pursuit of Happiness". | 18 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Yuri Gagarin - space flight anniversary | Yuri Gagarin was the first spaceman. This week's special is an hour long special on that epic mission 50 years ago. | 11 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Science Betrayed | What happens when science goes bad? From the anthropological hoax of Piltdown man back in 1912, through to more recent cases, such as that of Dr Hwang Woo-suk, the Korean scientist accused of faking his "breakthrough" in stem cell research, there have been some dramatic and spectacular examples of scientists, who, for whatever reason, have chosen to be less than honest with their research and data. Adam Rutherford looks at the impact of science fraud, and asks if deceit and misconduct are more common than we think. And what can be done to halt the cheating before it does any damage. | 4 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Fingerprints on Trial 28 Mar 11 | Claudia Hammond investigates criticisms that fingerprinting needs radical reform | 28 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Caught in the Web 23 Mar 2011 | Vera Frankl reports on a 21st Century affliction - Internet Addiction Disorder. Should this be classed as a mental health issue? | 23 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Memristors 16 Mar 11 | Roland Pease investigates the future of computing power | 16 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Artificial Meat 09 Mar 11 | At a time when we're being told that livestock production is an inefficient and unsustainable use of resources, Geoff Watts considers progress in developing synthetic alternatives. Would you sit down to a plate of artificial meat that had been grown in a lab? | 9 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Can Chemistry Save The World? [2] 2 Mar 11 | Fixing the nitrogen fix. Roland Pease asks whether after a hundred years of the old industrial process, there’s a better way of making nitrogen fertilisers. Nitrogen is one of the most important elements for life, and we’re virtually swimming in it – the atmosphere is four fifths nitrogen gas. And yet nitrogen is one of the hardest elements for life to capture – it’s a molecule that’s almost completely inert. But can chemists copy nature’s tricks to ensnare this elusive molecule, using gentle reactions and without harming the environment in the process. | 2 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Can Chemistry Save The World? [1] 23 Feb 11 | Roland Pease looks into the new discipline of Green Chemistry, which seeks to improve our world, without doing harm at the same time. Since before the industrial revolution, chemistry has been transforming our lives, and the world around us, giving us medicines, materials, the fuels to make things happen, and the fertilisers and pesticides to boost our crops. But for many that progress has also brought damage in the form of pollution and contamination of the planet. Green chemistry could change all that. | 23 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: The Last Space Shuttle 16 Feb 11 | Veteran astronaut Jeff Hoffman looks back on 30 years of the Space Shuttle and asks how US astronauts will get into space after it is gone | 16 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: A Taste of Honey 09 Feb 11 | Adam Hart explores the science and history behind honey and the bees that make it. Honey is amazing stuff. Made by an insect, the honeybee, it is a long-term storage product that keeps them alive throughout the winter, but its physical, biological and chemical properties make it very useful for us too. A sweet treat, a part of our culture, a feature of our holy books and a component of our medicine cabinets, honey has been an important part of our history, but will it have a role in our future? | 9 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Thin Air [3] 02 Feb 11 | Gabrielle Walker investigates how the thin veil of our atmosphere protects life on Earth from the hazards of deep space | 2 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Thin Air [2] 26 Jan 11 | Earth's atmosphere is both sustainer and destroyer of life. Gabrielle Walker discovers surprises in how it does so | 26 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Thin Air [1] 19 Jan 11 | We not only live in the air, we live because of it. And air is about much more than just breathing. It is a transformer and a protector, though ultimately also a poison. Gabrielle Walker experiences air – floats in it, flies in it, weighs it and discovers that 'Thin Air' packs one of the most powerful forces on the planet. | 19 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Musical Instruments [3] 12 Jan 11 | Trevor Cox explores how percussion and string instruments make their own particular sounds | 12 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Musical Instruments [2] 5 Jan 11 | Trevor Cox examines the science of wind instruments. | 5 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Musical Instruments [1] 29 Dec 10 | Trevor Cox examines how the human voice makes sound. | 29 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Nanotechnology [2] 22 Dec 10 | In the second of two programmes about nanotechnology, Richard Hollingham concentrates on the environmental uses for nanotechnology, especially water and energy generation. Professor Eugene Cloete from Stellenbosch University has developed a water filter that looks like a teabag and which uses nanofibres to filter out contaminants. Researchers at the University of Brighton are developing ways of purifying large amounts of water at source. Scientists at the University of Cambridge are developing thin films of nanocrystals that capture sunlight and turn it into electrical energy. As nanoparticles become more widely used, thereâs growing concern about their safety. Richard talks to Professor Ian Colbeck from Essex University and Richard Denison from the Environmental Defence Fund about the potential risks posed by nanoparticles if they escape into the environment. | 22 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Nanotechnology [1] 15 Dec 10 | In the first of two programmes about nanotechnology, Richard Hollingham investigates how a better understanding of the properties of nanoparticles is helping researchers develop novel medical treatments. He talks to Dr Simon Holland and Wendy Knight at GlaxoSmithKline about research into using nanoparticles to deliver therapeutic agents to precise locations in the body. Richard also visits MagForce, a German research company, that's developing a novel therapy using heated nanoparticles of iron oxide to destroy brain cancers. | 15 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Science and Libel 08 Dec 10 | The blogger and the author of Bad Science, Dr Ben Goldacre, himself a defendant in a lengthy and costly legal case, explores the battle to keep libel out of science and what it might mean for us and the future of medical research if that battle is lost. | 8 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate Connection: Consumption on the couch | As world leaders gather in Cancun for the latest UN climate negotiations, the Climate Connection series asks a key question in the story of action on climate change: what's stopping us? In part three Jon Stewart considers if the lack of action is down to a failure of communication | 1 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Exchanges at the Frontier Ep 5 24 Nov 10 | What is the secret of pleasure? And why do some people seem to experience more of it than others? A.C.Grayling talks to Morten Kringelbach, a neuroscientist who is exploring how the brain processes pleasure and how that relates to happiness. | 24 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Exchanges at the frontier 17 Nov 2010 | How do we treat extreme violence that seems to have no rationale? A.C.Grayling speaks to Forensic Psychiatrist Gwen Adshead with an audience of the public at Broadmoor High Security Psychiatric Hospital. | 17 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Exchanges at the Frontier 10 Nov 10 | Can you unite the forces of nature in one theory? Is there a way to make gravity compatible with the Quantum world? A. C. Grayling and an audience at Wellcome Collection talk to Brian Green about String Theory. | 10 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Exchanges at the Frontier 3 Nov 2010 | Why does Malaria have such an appalling impact on Sub Saharan Africa? Leading Epidemiologist discusses the social, economic and medical aspects of the disease with A.C.Grayling and an audience of the public. | 3 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Exchanges at the Frontier Oct 27 2010 | Do you want to double your life span, and stay young for longer too? Cynthia Kenyon’s genetic research has uncovered a latent ability for animals to live much longer than they do. In the first of this year’s Exchanges At The Frontier she is tested by A.C.Grayling and an audience of the public about her success in making simple animals live twice as long and her current experiments on human genes. | 27 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: The Heart Has its Reasons | Does the head really rule the heart as modern science would have us believe, or does this organ play a far greater role in our emotional responses? For Discovery, Tim Healey makes a personal exploration of the mysteries and science of the heart. | 20 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: The Vaccine Detectives Part Two | According to research by Dr Peter Aaby vaccines and vitamin supplements can have long term unintended consequences - some good and some bad - on the immune system of young children. In the most alarming cases, girls fare much worse than boys. | 13 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: The Vaccine Detectives - Part One | This two-part documentary takes us inside the world's most remarkable health surveillance unit, in the impoverished West African country of Guinea Bissau, where a team of Danish and African medical researchers are piecing together evidence that could change public healthcare forever. The results challenge the UN's global health advice which is followed by most countries in the developing world. The findings which show that vaccines and vitamin supplements have long-term unintended consequences - some good and some bad - on the immune system of young children. | 6 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: The Feynman Variations 29 Sep 2010 | Brian Cox presents an archive tribute to Richard P Feynman. Widely regarded as the finest physicist of his generation and the most influential since Einstein. With contributions from friends, colleagues, students and the great man himself. | 29 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: The Alien Equation 22 Sep 10 | The Alien Equation. Kevin Fong celebrates the 50th anniversary of an equation that has reached iconic status. The Drake Equation seeks to answer one of the most profound questions in science: are we alone in the universe. | 22 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Graphene 15 Sep 10 | Roland Pease reports on a new form of carbon that looks set to transform technology. | 15 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovery: Muscle Wastage 08 Sep 10 | Vivienne Parry hears how new research into the science of muscles is giving new hope to the many thousands of people who suffer from muscle wasting due to illness or ageing. | 8 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 95 Episodes |
