Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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The Bee All and End All
Bees pollinate plants, can detect bombs and compose music. What would we do without them?
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Extending Embryo Research
Explorations in the world of science.
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The Split Second Decision
Dr Kevin Fong asks how vulnerable is our high end decision making
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Human Hibernation
Could humans pull off the trick of hibernation to conquer long term space travel?
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Delivering Clean Air
More delivery vans means more air pollution in our cities. What are the alternatives?
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Make Me a Cyborg
Are human cyborgs set to become a reality? Frank Swain investigates.
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Why do some people have no sense of direction?
Plus, why is my mum tone deaf?
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Why am I left-handed?
What determines left or right handedness and why are lefties in the minority?
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Does the full Moon make us act oddly?
And could we live on another planet?
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Why do we get middle-aged spread?
Plus, what鈥檚 the strongest substance in the world?
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Does nothing exist?
Does nothing really exist, and where can we find it?
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Sesame Open
The new science facility, SESAME, that aims to promote peace in the middle east
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The Future of the Climate Deal
What will President Trump mean for international deals to avert climate change?
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Science Stories: Series 3 - Mesmerism and Parapsychology
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
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
How testosterone has been used and abused in history
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Science Stories: Series 3 - Making the Earth Move
How a dying man's book demoted the earth and reconstructed the universe.
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Origins of Human Culture
What鈥檚 special about human culture
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Mind Reading
Gaia Vince explores how scientists are trying to read others' minds.
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Custom of Cutting
An investigation into female genital mutilation in East and West Africa
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The Inflamed Mind
Can your immune system make you psychotic or depressed?
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The City that Fell into the Earth
How do you move a city? Lesley Riddoch travels to Arctic Sweden to find out
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The Sun King of China
Meet the undisputed leader of China's booming solar industry
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The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic
Peter Gibbs explores Ascension Island, a barren Atlantic rock made fertile by man
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Creating the Crick
Creating the Francis Crick Institute
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Black Holes: A Tale of Cosmic Death and Rebirth
LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and the new astronomy of nature鈥檚 ultimate state of matter
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The Whale Menopause
What do killer whales tell us about the human menopause?
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Reversing Parkinson's
Cell therapies for Parkinson鈥檚 disease
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Could we send our litter into space?
Plus, why is everything in space round?
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Why do we faint?
And can animals count?
