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Discovery Episodes

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    The Life Scientific: Jacinta Tan

    How does a person with anorexia nervosa think? Jacinta Tan sheds light on this illness

  2. The Life Scientific: Pete Smith

    Restore peat bogs to mitigate climate change and improve bio-diversity.

  3. The colour conundrum

    How do we see colour and why are some people colour blind?

  4. The Turn of the Tide

    Why are tide times and ranges so different around the UK, asks Lynn?

  5. The Shocking White Hair

    Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.

  6. Surprising symmetries

    Two eyes, two arms, two legs - we are roughly symmetrical on the outside. Why is that?

  7. The weird waves of wi-fi

    We use wi-fi every day, but do you know how it works?

  8. The Mystery of the Teenage Brain

    Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.

  9. Wild Inside: The Ocean Sunfish

    Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish

  10. Wild Inside: The Burmese Python

    Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the internal secrets to success of the Burmese Python

  11. Wild Inside: Jungle royalty - the Jaguar

    Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside three animals from the big wild world.

  12. The Life Scientific: Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals

    How did mammals come to dominate our planet? Prof Steve Brusatte talks to Jim Al-Khalili

  13. The Life Scientific: Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA

    The man who found a way to decode DNA at speed

  14. Tooth and Claw: Wolves

    Wolves play a dark role in our imaginations but how does the real animal compare?

  15. Tooth and Claw: Army ant

    Adam Hart explores the villain of many a jungle horror movie - the army ant.

  16. Tooth and Claw: Venomous snakes

    Adam Hart discovers why rattlesnakes make good mothers and how deadly their venom is.

  17. Tooth and claw: Spotted hyena

    Professor Adam Hart resurrects the spotted hyena’s reputation, from scavenger to hunter

  18. Deep sea exploration

    The wonders and mysteries of the deep ocean, and the potential threats to it.

  19. A new space age?

    Could humans be on the Moon and Mars before this decade is out?

  20. African science, African future

    Professor Tom Kariuki examines the future of science in Africa

  21. The venomous vendetta

    Will a venomous snake die if it bites itself? asks Janni in Amsterdam.

  22. The slippery situation

    'What is the most slippy thing in the world?' asks 8 year old Evelyn from London.

  23. The painless heart

    Why does my heart muscle not ache after exercise?

  24. The weirdness of water, Part 2 of 2

    Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry attempt to answer more questions on why water is weird

  25. The weirdness of water, Part 1 of 2

    ‘Please explain the weirdness of water?’ asks Neil Morton in Stirling in Scotland.

  26. The guiding hound

    How do guide dogs know where they're going?

  27. The James Webb Space Telescope

    A new giant space telescope that will show us the first stars that shone in the universe

  28. Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares

    Gene edited babies and gene drives to eradicate pests

  29. Genetic dreams, genetic nightmares

    How genetic engineering became big business

  30. Genetic dreams, genetic nightmares

    The story of the controversial birth of genetic engineering in the 1970s.

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