麻豆社 World Service - Discovery

Discovery Podcast

Explorations in the world of science.

Updated: weekly

Episodes available: indefinitely

Preventing Disease in Animals

Mon 29 Sep 2014

The pioneering genetic techniques to combat disease in our livestock
Beyond the Abyss

Mon 22 Sep 2014

Exploring the ocean's deepest realm - the Hadal zone, 6,000 to 11,000 metres down
Power Transmission

Mon 15 Sep 2014

Could super grids supplying DC electricity be the solution to rising demand for energy?
Biosafety

Mon 8 Sep 2014

As mistakes involving deadly pathogens come to light, what lessons will be learnt?
Mum and Dad and Mum

Mon 1 Sep 2014

Meet the girl with DNA from three people
Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part Two

Mon 25 Aug 2014

The world needs new antibiotics: drug companies don鈥檛 want to make them. What next?
Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part One

Mon 18 Aug 2014

Why our antibiotics are failing. Is this the end of modern medicine?
Cosmology

Mon 11 Aug 2014

Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang?
Rosetta Mission Arriving At Comet

Mon 4 Aug 2014

Orbiting and landing on a comet. The most daring science space mission ever?
Professor Sir Michael Rutter

Mon 28 Jul 2014

Child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter influenced understanding of autism and behaviour
What has Happened to El Nino?

Mon 21 Jul 2014

What is making this year鈥檚 predicted El Nino so hard to forecast?
Swarming Robots

Mon 14 Jul 2014

Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots
Anaesthesia

Mon 7 Jul 2014

How do general anaesthetics work in the body?
Janet Hemingway

Mon 30 Jun 2014

Janet Hemingway on malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance with Jim al-Khalili
Ageing and the Brain

Mon 23 Jun 2014

Do our mental powers really decline in old age?
Driverless Cars

Mon 16 Jun 2014

The engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves
Driverless Cars

Mon 9 Jun 2014

The future cars with sensors that can send messages to other cars, trucks and pedestrians
Taming the Sun

Mon 2 Jun 2014

ITER, the world's effort to harness nuclear fusion, and the most complex experiment ever
Beauty and the Brain

Mon 26 May 2014

Dr Tiffany Jenkins explores what neuroscience knows about art
Alf Adams

Mon 19 May 2014

Alf Adams remembers his small idea that changed the world, with Jim Al-Khalili.
Mark Miodownik

Mon 12 May 2014

Mark Miodownik talks nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials with Jim Al-Khalili.
Sue Black

Mon 5 May 2014

Forensic scientist Sue Black on the clues she uses to identify human bodies
Whatever Happened to Biofuels - Part Two

Mon 28 Apr 2014

Gaia Vince asks if we can ever run our vehicles on biofuels from algae or bacteria.
Whatever Happened to Biofuels?

Mon 21 Apr 2014

Can we make biofuels from the sugars in the inedible parts of plants?
Peter Higgs

Mon 14 Apr 2014

Peter Higgs opens up to Jim Al-Khalili about the Higgs boson.
Vikram Patel

Mon 7 Apr 2014

Jim al-Khalili discusses global mental health with psychiatrist Professor Vikram Patel
Inside the Shark's Mind

Mon 31 Mar 2014

Can science stop sharks attacking humans?
The Biology of Freedom

Mon 24 Mar 2014

Is free will unique to humans or a biological trait that evolved over time?
Fructose: the Bittersweet Sugar

Mon 17 Mar 2014

Is fructose a 'toxic additive' or a healthy fruit sugar?
Hack my Hearing

Mon 10 Mar 2014

Can hacking hearing aids create a new super sense for people with hearing loss?