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Discovery Episodes

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    Listening to coral reefs

    Conservationist Rory Crawford meets the scientists surveying coral reefs using sound

  2. Geoengineering The Planet

    How we cool the planet with the latest geoengineering technologies.

  3. Geoengineering The Planet

    Geoengineering: can it work?

  4. Chilean mummies

    Jane Chambers learns about the world's oldest examples of mummification

  5. Earthshot 3 - The prize winners

    Five categories, a million pounds in each. Who has won the Earthshot prize?

  6. Earthshot 2 – Tackling our energy crisis

    Balancing our growing need for electricity while addressing climate change

  7. Earthshot 1

    Winning ideas to improve the world around us.

  8. China's great science leap

    Will China’s ambitions in space, quantum & biotech lead it to science super-power status?

  9. China's great science leap

    Is China set to become the next science superpower?

  10. Covid origins: The science

    What the science says about the start of the pandemic

  11. Future vaccines

    How the pandemic will change the vaccine landscape

  12. Tamsin Edwards on the uncertainty in climate science

    All climate change models are wrong. Tamsin Edwards tells Jim Al Khalili why.

  13. The Life Scientific: Professor Martin Sweeting

    How Martin Sweeting made a satellite on his kitchen table

  14. The Life Scientific: Dr Nira Chamberlain

    Nira Chamberlain on how mathematics can solve real-world problems.

  15. Lost for words

    David Shariatmadari explores the science of language, dementia and ageing

  16. A sense of music

    What happens when music meets the animal mind?

  17. Dare to repair: Fixing the future

    How does repair and repair-ability fit into our sustainable future?

  18. Dare to repair: The fight for the right to repair

    Exploring how citizens are fighting back for the right to repair their own stuff

  19. Dare to Repair: How we broke the future

    Why electronic gadgets dont last as long as they used to and why repairing them is hard.

  20. Tooth and claw: Tigers

    What's it like facing a charging tiger and how best can we protect their growing numbers?

  21. Tooth and claw: Bears

    Adam Hart explores our complex relationship with bears

  22. Tooth and claw: Lions

    Our complex relationship with Earth’s greatest predators by the people who know them best

  23. Tooth and claw: Crocodiles

    Adam Hart explores Earth’s greatest predators, starting with the crocodile

  24. Peter Goadsby on migraine

    Peter Goadsby on migraine attacks and the new treatments his research has inspired.

  25. Patient zero: First outbreak

    How did smallpox reach Australia?

  26. Patient zero: Back from the brink

    When polio returned to Asia Pacific

  27. Patient zero Ticking time bomb

    Meningitis outbreak across US

  28. Patient zero: Spillover in suburbia

    Mystery disease killing horses – and people

  29. The noises that make us cringe

    Why do some people find noises like a fork scraping a plate so terrible?

  30. The Hamster Power Hypothesis

    How many hamsters on wheels would it take to power London? asks Judah from Virginia, USA.

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