Discovery

Why do women outlive men

24 Dec 2012

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Baby girls born today in the UK can expect to live to 82 years old, whereas boys on average will die 4 years earlier.Evolutionary biologist Dr Yan Won...

Piltdown Man

17 Dec 2012

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The most notorious fraud in the history of Science is the focus of this week’s Discovery. Exactly one hundred years ago, British scientists announ...

Particle Physics

10 Dec 2012

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Finding the Higgs boson on July 4th 2012 was the last piece in physicists' Standard model of matter. But Tracey Logan discovers there's much more for ...

Last Man, First Scientist on the Moon

03 Dec 2012

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Kevin Fong talks to one of the last two men on the Moon, 40 years after the final Apollo 17 mission blasted off on 7 December 1972. As an Apollo astro...

Hallucination 2/2

26 Nov 2012

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In this programme, Geoff Watts meets researchers attempting to unlock the mysteries of hallucination as well as some of those who experience the pheno...

Hallucination 1/2

19 Nov 2012

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Geoff Watts meets researchers attempting to unlock the mysteries of hallucination as well as some of those who experience the phenomenon. Hallucinatio...

The Age We Made

12 Nov 2012

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Gaia Vince concludes her journey through the geological age humans have launched. After climate change and mass extinction, she now explores moves ho...

The Age We Made - Part 3

05 Nov 2012

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Earth scientists say humanity’s impact on the Earth has been so profound that we have started a new geological time period on the planet. They call...

The Age We Made - Part 2

29 Oct 2012

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Humanity’s impact on the atmosphere with fossil fuel burning is so profound that we’re creating a new geological time period, say geologists. The...

The Age We Made - Part 1

22 Oct 2012

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Humanity’s impact on the Earth is so profound that we’re creating a new geological time period. Geologists have named the age we’re making the ...

End of Drug Discovery

15 Oct 2012

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We are in desperate need of new medicines for the major diseases facing us in the 21st century such as Alzheimer's and obesity. And we are running out...

End of Drug Discovery

08 Oct 2012

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We are in desperate need of new medicines for the major diseases facing us in the 21st Century such as Alzheimer's and obesity. And we are running out...

The sound of deafness

24 Sep 2012

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Nine million people in the UK alone have significant hearing problems. The mechanisms in our ears that help us hear are incredibly sensitive and are e...

Darwin's Tunes

17 Sep 2012

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Is our taste in music, and how it's changed over the centuries, governed by creative genius or simply by survival of the fittest sounds, chosen by us ...

Frankenstein's Moon

10 Sep 2012

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What can astronomy tells us about great literature? Forensic astronomer Don Olson tells Andrew Luck-Baker about two of his investigative cases. He ex...

Episode 3

07 Sep 2012

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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 s...

The Life Scientific : Lloyd Peck - Antarctic Scientist

03 Sep 2012

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Jim Al-Khalili finds out about the life scientific of the British Antarctic Survey biologist Lloyd Peck. Amongst other creatures he studies giant sea ...

Episode 2

31 Aug 2012

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One hundred years ago, Scott reached the South Pole.Fifty years later, the first geologist briefly walked on the moon. Kevin Fong asks if why we might...

The Life Scientific : Barbara Sahakian - Neuroscientist

27 Aug 2012

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Jim Al-Khalili meets Cambridge University neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian. She talks about her Life Scientific finding drugs to slow down the memory l...

Episode 1

17 Aug 2012

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Kevin Fong looks beyond the failure of Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to be the first to reach the South Pole and focuses instead on the scientific ...

Saving the Ganges River Dolphin

13 Aug 2012

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Discovery this week goes in search of the Gangetic River Dolphin, an extraordinary creature which inhabits the muddy waters of the Ganges and Brahmapu...

Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars

06 Aug 2012

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After the most daring and complex landing of a robot on another planet, the search for evidence of life on Mars enters a new era. Nasa's Curiosity ro...

Future Flight: Prog 2 of 2

30 Jul 2012

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Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who are designing flying cars and green aircraft. Gareth has a go at flying a personal aircraft in the flight sim...

Future Flight: Prog 1 of 2

23 Jul 2012

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Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who will transform the way we fly around the world and finds out what aircraft might look like in the future. Gare...

Artificial Photosynthesis

16 Jul 2012

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Chemist Andrea Sella explores the current race to do photosynthesis better than nature ever achieved. In just a few hundred years mankind has burnt fo...

Artificial Blood

09 Jul 2012

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Could creating "blood" in the laboratory make infections passed on through blood transfusions a thing of the past? Vivienne Parry investigates.The dri...

Gene Therapy

02 Jul 2012

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Gene therapy - repairing malfunctioning cells by mending their DNA - offers an elegant solution to diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, caused by a sing...

Legacy Of Alan Turing - Episode Two

25 Jun 2012

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Alan Turing, born 23 June 1912, is famous for his key role in breaking German codes in World War II. But for mathematicians, his greatest work was on ...

Legacy Of Alan Turing - Episode One

18 Jun 2012

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Alan Turing - born a hundred years ago on June 23 - is most famous for his key role in breaking German codes in World War II. But for mathematicians, ...

Flu

11 Jun 2012

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Two teams of virologists found themselves at the heart of bioterrorism maelstrom late last year when their studies on mutant bird flu were suppressed ...

Transit of Venus 2012

05 Jun 2012

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Astronomer Marek Kukula from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich explores the scientific implications of the forthcoming transit of Venus across the fa...

28/05/2012 GMT

28 May 2012

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Professor Jim al-Khalili talks to Cern physicist Tejinder Virdee, about the search for the elusive Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle". Last...

Hurricane Rash

21 May 2012

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Plastic Surgery does not always have a good press, more often associated with the excesses of Hollywood. But the birth of modern day reconstruction h...

The Science of Morality

14 May 2012

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How fixed are our moral beliefs? Can these beliefs be reduced to neurochemistry?While we may believe that our moral principles are rigid and based on ...

1000 Days: A Legacy of Life

07 May 2012

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Imagine if your health as an adult is partly determined by the nutrition and environment you were exposed to during a critical period of development -...

Scott's Legacy: Programme 3 - Mars

30 Apr 2012

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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 s...

Scott's Legacy: Programme 2 - Moon

23 Apr 2012

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Can the heroic age of Antarctic exploration help to show us the way back to the Moon?One hundred years ago, Scott reached the South Pole. However, mor...

Scott's Legacy: Programme 1 - Antarctica

16 Apr 2012

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Kevin Fong looks beyond the failure of Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to be the first to reach the South Pole and focuses instead on the scientific ...

Titanic - In Her Own Words

09 Apr 2012

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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 existenc...

The Human Race: Global Body - Sydney

02 Apr 2012

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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.Lynne is jo...

The Human Race: Global Body - Los Angeles

26 Mar 2012

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As part of the BBC World Service's Human Race season, ABC in Australia's Lynne Malcolm explores how Homo sapiens have adapted to changes in their envi...

The Human Race: The Global Body - Manila

19 Mar 2012

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As part of the BBC World Service's Human Race season, ABC in Australia's Lynne Malcolm explores how Homo sapiens have adapted to changes in their envi...

The Human Race: The Global Body - Sri Lanka

12 Mar 2012

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As part of the Human Race season on the BBC, Discovery starts its exploration into the Global Body. Over the next 4 weeks, Lynne Malcolm finds out how...

Fukushima nuclear accident

05 Mar 2012

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It's nearly a year (11 March 2011) since Japan was struck by a huge earthquake and Tsunami. Clouds of radioactive fall out from damaged nuclear reac...

Episode 2

27 Feb 2012

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Located in the western pacific, the Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean, plunging down 11km. Down there it's pitch black, icy cold and the...

Episode 1

20 Feb 2012

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Located in the western pacific, the Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean, plunging down 11km.Down there it's pitch black, icy cold and the ...

Time

13 Feb 2012

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It sometimes seems to rule our lives and yet some scientists think it is an illusion. From birth to death we seem to be swept up in a relentless and i...

Smart Streets

06 Feb 2012

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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 s...

Depression

30 Jan 2012

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Geoff Watts meets researchers trying to find a new way to fight depression by studying those who never get it. In the second of two programmes Geoff m...

Depression

23 Jan 2012

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Geoff Watts meets researchers looking for clues to the origins of depression as a way of finding new solutions to treating it. In the first of two pro...

Seti, the past, present and future

16 Jan 2012

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Jason Palmer explores the past, present and future of Seti. In the second programme he looks at what sort of signal might ET send us, and how might we...

Seti, the past, present and future

09 Jan 2012

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In the first of two programmes, the BBC's science reporter Jason Palmer, meets the researchers behind Seti, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intellige...

Hypersonic Flight

02 Jan 2012

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For more than half a century aeronautical engineers have been working on the dream of hypersonic passenger flight. London to Sydney in four hours is a...

Spooklights

26 Dec 2011

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Folk tales are full of fleeting phenomena like will o' the wisps, faint glows that must have spooked our ancestors. But these days, it's just about im...

19/12/2011 GMT

19 Dec 2011

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The Higgs particle is the final cornerstone of scientists’ model of the material universe. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN was built so researcher...

Antivirals

12 Dec 2011

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An increasing understanding of genetics has uncovered new targets for antiviral drug treatments. Although still in the very early stages, scientists s...

05/12/2011 GMT

05 Dec 2011

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When leptin failed to be a wonder solution to obesity, this hormone produced by fat cells, disappeared from the headlines. Twenty years on scientists ...

Antarctic subglacial lake exploration

28 Nov 2011

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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...

Neutrinos

21 Nov 2011

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For six months, CERN scientists guarded the best kept secret in science - that they'd seen tiny subatomic particles called neutrinos breaking the univ...

14/11/2011 GMT

14 Nov 2011

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In the second of a two-part Discovery series, Robots that Care, Jon Stewart visits research institutes in the USA and UK to explore the brave new idea...

Robots that Care

07 Nov 2011

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In the first of a two-part series, Jon Stewart charts the advances in robotics that are increasingly leading to direct one-to-one contact between huma...

India's e-governance project

31 Oct 2011

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Angela Saini reports from India on the country’s vast e-governance project aimed at driving out corruption, reducing bureaucracy and getting the nat...

24/10/2011 GMT

24 Oct 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

17/10/2011 GMT

17 Oct 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

10/10/2011 GMT

10 Oct 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

03/10/2011 GMT

03 Oct 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

26/09/2011 GMT

26 Sep 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

19/09/2011 GMT

19 Sep 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

12/09/2011 GMT

12 Sep 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

05/09/2011 GMT

05 Sep 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

29/08/2011 GMT

29 Aug 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

22/08/2011 GMT

22 Aug 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

15/08/2011 GMT

15 Aug 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

08/08/2011 GMT

08 Aug 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

01/08/2011 GMT

01 Aug 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

25/07/2011 GMT

25 Jul 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

18/07/2011 GMT

18 Jul 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

11/07/2011 GMT

11 Jul 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

04/07/2011 GMT

05 Jul 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

27/06/2011 GMT

27 Jun 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

20/06/2011 GMT

20 Jun 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

13/06/2011 GMT

13 Jun 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

06/06/2011 GMT

06 Jun 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

30/05/2011 GMT

30 May 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

23/05/2011 GMT

23 May 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

16/05/2011 GMT

16 May 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

09/05/2011 GMT

09 May 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

02/05/2011 GMT

02 May 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

25/04/2011 GMT

21 Apr 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

18/04/2011 GMT

18 Apr 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

The Gagarin Legacy

11 Apr 2011

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In a special edition, the BBC's Discovery programme marks the 50th anniversary of the world's first manned space flight

04/04/2011 GMT

04 Apr 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

28/03/2011 GMT

28 Mar 2011

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Explorations in the world of science.

Caught In The Web

23 Mar 2011

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Vera Frankl investigates 'Internet Addiction', talking to web users and experts from the UK, USA and China.

Memristors

16 Mar 2011

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Memristors - the next stage in computer technology, offering faster computing and vastly increased memory.

Artificial Meat

09 Mar 2011

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Would you eat artificial meat, grown in a lab? Geoff Watts investigates.

Fixing the Nitrogen Fix

02 Mar 2011

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Chemistry's reputation is not always good. Roland Pease asks if chemistry can change its profile and be seen to be green.

Episode 1

23 Feb 2011

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Chemistry's reputation is not always good. Roland Pease asks if chemistry can change its profile and be seen to be green.

Last Chance To Fly The Space Shuttle

16 Feb 2011

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As NASA prepares for the final flight of the Space Shuttle program, astronaut Jeff Hoffman looks back on its 30 year history.

Honey - The Golden Treasure

09 Feb 2011

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Dr Adam Hart explores the remarkable properties of honey, from its basic chemistry to the biological processes that create it.