Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
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D'Arcy Thompson—Science Stories: Series 5
Mon 2 Apr 2018
A man who put maths into biology and saw physics in shells, seeds and bees 100 years ago
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The Far Future
Mon 26 Mar 2018
What fragments of our civilisation will persist 10,000 years in the future?
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Killing Insects for Conservation
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Killing insects in the name of research upsets some people. How do scientists justify it?
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Why We Cut Men
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Across the world, 1 in 3 men are circumcised. Mary-Ann Ochota investigates why we cut men
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Phosphorus—In Their Element
Mon 5 Mar 2018
7/8 How a discovery in boiled urine led to the trade union movement and chemical weapons.
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The Power of Sloth
Mon 19 Feb 2018
Lucy Cooke discovers the joy of sloth and sloths and the benefits of being really slow.
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Pain of Torture—The Anatomy of Pain
Mon 12 Feb 2018
4/4 Does knowing that someone is inflicting pain on you deliberately make the pain worse?
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Controlling Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
Mon 5 Feb 2018
3/4 How do brains control pain? Irene Tracey asks can we distance ourselves from agony
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Knowing Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
Mon 29 Jan 2018
2/4 Phantom limb pain, babies’ pain, people without pain, help understand the nature of pain.
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Seeing Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
Mon 22 Jan 2018
1/4 Why do some people feel more pain than others and what happens in the brain during surgery
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Humphry Davy—Science Stories: Series 4
Mon 15 Jan 2018
4/4 The story of how Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas in 1799.
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Lise Meitner—Science Stories: Series 4
Mon 8 Jan 2018
3/4 How physicist Lise Meitner unlocked the science of the atom bomb that cost Hitler dearly
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The Day the Earth Moved
New Year's Day 2018
How scientists learned the earth’s crust is made up of shifting plates.
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Maria Merian—Science Stories: Series 4
Christmas Day 2017
2/4 How a 13-year old girl mapped metamorphosis in the 1600s. Naomi Alderman presents
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Alcuin of York—Science Stories: Series 4
Mon 18 Dec 2017
1/4 Philip Ball dives into the Dark Ages to reveal the author of the river crossing riddle
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Cheating the Atmosphere
Mon 11 Dec 2017
Dodgy emissions data could fatally undermine the Paris Climate Agreement
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What would happen if you fell into a black hole?
Mon 27 Nov 2017
Plus, could we make a sonic weapon?
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Sydney Brenner: A Revolutionary Biologist
Mon 23 Oct 2017
Sydney Brenner talks about his part in the DNA revolution between the 1950s and 1980s
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SOS Snail
Mon 16 Oct 2017
Helen Scales reports on the international rescue mission to save the Partula snail
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Indian Science – The Colonial Legacy
Mon 9 Oct 2017
How did British imperialism affect India’s scientific development?
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India's Ancient Science
Mon 2 Oct 2017
Rediscovering influential Indian ideas on mathematics, metallurgy and engineering
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Africa’s Great Green Wall
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Transforming the Sahal into the next wonder of the world through Africa’s Great Green Wall
Space
The eclipses, spacecraft and astronauts changing our view of the Universe
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
A pair of scientific sleuths answer your perplexing questions. Ask them anything!
