Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
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Why am I left-handed?
Mon 13 Feb 2017
What determines left or right handedness and why are lefties in the minority?
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Why do we get middle-aged spread?
Mon 30 Jan 2017
Plus, what鈥檚 the strongest substance in the world?
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Sesame Open
Mon 16 Jan 2017
The new science facility, SESAME, that aims to promote peace in the middle east
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The Future of the Climate Deal
Mon 9 Jan 2017
What will President Trump mean for international deals to avert climate change?
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Science Stories: Series 3 - Mesmerism and Parapsychology
Mon 2 Jan 2017
The showmanship of Anton Mesmer and the rise and fall of animal magnetism
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Science Stories: Series 3 - The Woman Who Tamed Lightning
Boxing Day 2016
Hertha Ayrton was the first woman admitted to the Institution of Electrical Engineers
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Science Stories: Series 3 - Testosterone: Elixir of Masculinity
Mon 19 Dec 2016
How testosterone has been used and abused in history
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Science Stories: Series 3 - Making the Earth Move
Mon 12 Dec 2016
How a dying man's book demoted the earth and reconstructed the universe.
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Custom of Cutting
Mon 21 Nov 2016
An investigation into female genital mutilation in East and West Africa
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The City that Fell into the Earth
Mon 7 Nov 2016
How do you move a city? Lesley Riddoch travels to Arctic Sweden to find out
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The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic
Mon 24 Oct 2016
Peter Gibbs explores Ascension Island, a barren Atlantic rock made fertile by man
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Black Holes: A Tale of Cosmic Death and Rebirth
Mon 10 Oct 2016
LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and the new astronomy of nature鈥檚 ultimate state of matter
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How do you make the perfect cup of tea?
Mon 29 Aug 2016
Plus, why do we cry? Is there any useful purpose?
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Cleaning Up the Oceans
Mon 4 Jul 2016
Roland Pease asks what damage plastic waste is doing in the oceans
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!
