Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
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Internet of Things—Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet
Mon 18 Sep 2017
3/3 Can we Control the Dark Side of the Internet?
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Dark Side of the World Wide Web—Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet
Mon 11 Sep 2017
2/3 Did the World Wide Web's Utopian ideals spread crime and obscenity?
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The Origin of the Internet—Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet
Mon 4 Sep 2017
1/3 The origins of the internet, and why nobody thought of making it secure
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Silicon - The World's Building Block—In Their Element
Mon 28 Aug 2017
5/8 The key component of rocks, sand and materials from glass and concrete to microelectronics
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The Day the Sun Went Dark
Mon 21 Aug 2017
For the first time in almost 100 years the USA is experiencing a full solar eclipse
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Carbon - the backbone of life—In Their Element
Mon 14 Aug 2017
4/8 Why is all known life built on carbon?
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And then there was Li—In Their Element
Mon 7 Aug 2017
3/8 The element that links the formation of the universe with the functioning of our brains
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Oxygen: The breath of Life—In Their Element
Mon 31 Jul 2017
2/8 Trevor Cox takes a deep breath and tells the story of oxygen on earth and in space
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Mercury - Chemistry's Jekyll and Hyde—In Their Element
Mon 24 Jul 2017
1/8 The most beautiful and shimmering of the elements, the weirdest, and yet the most reviled
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Eating Well in Lyon: Healthy Diets to prevent Bowel Cancer
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Anu Anand is in Lyon, looking at what we eat and drink and the risk of bowel cancer
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Catching Prostate Cancer Early in Trinidad
Mon 10 Jul 2017
Anu Anand on detecting and treating prostate cancer in Trinidad and Tobago.
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The USA鈥檚 Deadly Racial Divide: Black Women & Breast Cancer
Mon 3 Jul 2017
Anu Anand explores why more black women are more likely to die of breast cancer in the US
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Screening and Treating Cervical Cancer in Tanzania
Mon 26 Jun 2017
Anu Anand on how vinegar and a head torch are used to tackle cervical cancer in Tanzania
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Taking On Tobacco - Lung Cancer in Uruguay
Wed 21 Jun 2017
Uruguay takes on Big Tobacco in crusade to save its citizens
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Dying in Comfort in Mongolia
Fri 16 Jun 2017
The Mongolian matriarch who is helping people with terminal liver cancer die in comfort
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Can Robots be Truly Intelligent?
Mon 5 Jun 2017
Adam Rutherford asks if we are ready for artificial intelligences making decisions for us
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Robots - More Human than Human?
Mon 29 May 2017
Adam Rutherford explores our relationship with contemporary humanoid robots
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History of the Rise of the Robots
Mon 22 May 2017
From the Ancient Greeks to Maria in Metropolis, Adam Rutherford explores robots in culture
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Quantum Supremacy
Mon 15 May 2017
With IBM, Google and Microsoft all making bold claims for quantum computing, what's up?
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Re-engineering Life
Mon 8 May 2017
Roland Pease meets the engineers and biologists hacking life's circuits
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Lifechangers: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mon 17 Apr 2017
Kevin Fong talks to astrophysicist and populariser of science, Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Lifechangers: George Takei
Mon 10 Apr 2017
Kevin Fong talks to Star Trek actor and activist George Takei.
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The Bee All and End All
Mon 3 Apr 2017
Bees pollinate plants, can detect bombs and compose music. What would we do without them?
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The Split Second Decision
Mon 20 Mar 2017
Dr Kevin Fong asks how vulnerable is our high end decision making
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Human Hibernation
Mon 13 Mar 2017
Could humans pull off the trick of hibernation to conquer long term space travel?
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Delivering Clean Air
Mon 6 Mar 2017
More delivery vans means more air pollution in our cities. What are the alternatives?
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Make Me a Cyborg
Mon 27 Feb 2017
Are human cyborgs set to become a reality? Frank Swain investigates.
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!
