Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
Episodes to download
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The Supercalculators
Mon 17 Dec 2018
Alex Bellos meets the supercalculators taking part in the Mental Calculation World Cup.
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The China Syndrome—Plastic Fantastic
Mon 10 Dec 2018
3/3 China's ban on importing other countries' waste plastic is having a big impact
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How Much Plastic Can We Recycle?—Plastic Fantastic
Mon 3 Dec 2018
2/3 Professor Mark Miodownik explores our love/hate relationship with plastic.
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Why We Fell In Love with Plastic—Plastic Fantastic
Mon 26 Nov 2018
1/3 Professor Mark Miodownik explores our love/hate relationship with plastic.
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Finding the Coelacanths—The Genius of Accidents
Mon 19 Nov 2018
3/3 A huge, four-limbed fish, was discovered 65 million years after its supposed extinction
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The Big Bang and Jet Streams—The Genius of Accidents
Mon 12 Nov 2018
2/3 Evidence for the big bang was initially thought to be a mistake in the data
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Viagra and CRISPR—The Genius of Accidents
Mon 5 Nov 2018
1/3 Viagra was first developed to treat heart disease, but it had some surprising side-effects
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Tracking the First Animals on Earth
Mon 29 Oct 2018
In search of the first animals on the Earth, more than half a billion years ago
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Cooling the City
Mon 22 Oct 2018
How can we adapt and prepare our cities for extreme weather conditions?
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Tourism and Transparency—China's Organ Transplants
Mon 15 Oct 2018
2/2 Matthew Hill explores the Chinese approach to organ transplantation.
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Who To Believe?—China's Organ Transplants
Mon 8 Oct 2018
1/2 Matthew Hill explores the Chinese approach to organ transplantation.
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The Long Hot Summer - Part Two—Heatwave
Mon 1 Oct 2018
2/2 How did mild temperatures in the Arctic affect 2018's extreme weather?
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The Long Hot Summer—Heatwave
Mon 24 Sep 2018
1/2 Roland Pease asks why the Northern Hemisphere had unusually high temperatures this year.
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Fluorine—In Their Element
Mon 3 Sep 2018
1/3 How the feared element ended up giving us better teeth, mood and health
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Mary Anning and Fossil Hunting—Science Stories: Series 6
Mon 27 Aug 2018
5/5 How a poor woman became one of 19th-century Britain's most successful fossil finders
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Hypatia: The Murdered Mathematician—Science Stories: Series 6
Mon 20 Aug 2018
4/5 Naomi Alderman on the life and death of Hypatia, the ancient Greek mathematician
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Descartes' "Daughter"—Science Stories: Series 6
Mon 13 Aug 2018
3/5 Philip Ball goes back to the 17th Century to talk about Descartes and his "daughter"
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Making Natural Products in the Lab—Science Stories: Series 6
Mon 6 Aug 2018
2/5 How 19th century chemist Wohler made a natural product in the lab
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The Real Cyrano de Bergerac—Science Stories: Series 6
Mon 30 Jul 2018
1/5 Philip Ball on the real Cyrano de Bergerac and his 17th century space ship.
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The Nun鈥檚 Salamander—A Tale of Two Axolotls
Mon 23 Jul 2018
2/2 Why are Mexican nuns breeding a rare salamander? Could they save this remarkable species?
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The Aztec Salamander—A Tale of Two Axolotls
Mon 16 Jul 2018
1/2 Saving a cultural icon and biomedical marvel from extinction.
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Gateway to the Mind—The Second Genome
Mon 9 Jul 2018
3/3 Could our microbiome have an influence on our mood and behaviour?
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Dirt and Development—The Second Genome
Mon 2 Jul 2018
2/3 How the microbes in us set us on a path of health or chronic disease
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Manipulating Our Hidden Half—The Second Genome
Mon 25 Jun 2018
1/3 New research into manipulating our microbiome to stay healthy and beat chronic disease
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Do Insects Feel Pain?—Killing Insects: The Rights and Wrongs
Mon 18 Jun 2018
2/2 Do insects experience pain and suffering?
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What鈥檚 the Tiniest Dinosaur?
Mon 4 Jun 2018
And how do bats differentiate their own echolocation signals?
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Can Anything Travel Faster Than Light?
Mon 28 May 2018
Plus, how can we measure the age of the Universe?
Space
The eclipses, spacecraft and astronauts changing our view of the Universe
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
A pair of scientific sleuths answer your perplexing questions. Ask them anything!
