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Discovery Episodes

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    Why do people shout on their cellphones?

    And what causes traffic jams?

  2. How do you make the perfect cup of tea?

    Plus, why do we cry? Is there any useful purpose?

  3. What makes gingers ginger?

    Plus, what is the point of body hair?

  4. China Science Rising

    Rebecca Morelle reports on China's science ambitions.

  5. The Power of Cute

    Lucy Cooke explores our seeming obsession with all things cute.

  6. Cleaning Up the Oceans

    Roland Pease asks what damage plastic waste is doing in the oceans

  7. Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part 4: The Arctic

    New life, new dangers and new hopes for the endangered shorebirds on the tundra

  8. Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part Three: Yellow Sea North

    Can China鈥檚 birdwatchers and North Korea鈥檚 economy save migratory birds from extinction?

  9. Life on the East Asian Flyway 鈥� Part Two: Yellow Sea South

    Hear the calls of the Chinese bird hunter turned conservationist

  10. Life on the East Asian Flyway

    The world鈥檚 greatest migration - countless birds fly north from Australia to the Arctic

  11. The Neglected Sense

    Kathy Clugston is anosmic - she has no sense of smell and sets out to discover why

  12. After Ebola

    Rebuilding Sierra Leone鈥檚 healthcare system

  13. Benefits of Bilingualism - Part Two

    The benefits of bilingualism: keeping our minds healthy

  14. Benefits of Bilingualism - Part One

    Gaia Vince explores the benefits of bilingualism for children

  15. Our Unnatural Selection

    How humans are inadvertently driving the evolution of other species

  16. Science Stories: Series 2 - Margaret Cavendish

    Aristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method

  17. Science Stories: Series 2 - Orgueil Meteorite

    The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years.

  18. The Horn Dilemma

    Will the sale of harvested rhino horn help to stop poaching?

  19. African Einsteins

    Will Einstein鈥檚 successors be African? It鈥檚 very likely - and some of them will be women

  20. Feeding the World - Part Two

    How to future proof our crops above and below ground, to endure climate change

  21. Feeding the World - Part One

    Kathy Willis meets scientists seeking the genetic diversity to future-proof our crops

  22. Editing the Genome - Part Two

    Should we try to wipe out mosquitoes? With CRISPR, it may now be possible.

  23. Editing the Genome

    We have a powerful new tool to alter DNA. What medical uses should be off limits?

  24. Science Stories: Series 1 - Einstein鈥檚 Ice Box

    What happened when Einstein decided to fix the fridge?

  25. Science Stories: Series 1 - Eels and Human Electricity

    How an eel sparked our interest in electricity

  26. Science Stories: Series 1 - Cornelis Drebbel

    The magical world of Cornelis Drebbel, inventor of the first submarine in 1621

  27. El Nino

    El Nino in the Pacific is in full swing, threatening with flood, fire and famine

  28. An Infinite Monkey's Guide to General Relativity

    Brian Cox and Robin Ince explore the legacy of Einstein's great theory.

  29. An Infinite Monkey's Guide to General Relativity

    Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's great theory

  30. Scotland鈥檚 Dolphins

    How photo-ID techniques are tracking protected bottlenose dolphins

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