Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
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Why Do We Dream?
Mon 21 May 2018
And are machines better than humans when it comes to recognising faces?
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Behaving Better Online—Crossing Divides
Mon 30 Apr 2018
2/2 Gaia Vince meets the scientists studying our built in human behaviour
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Bringing Schrodinger's Cat to Life
Mon 16 Apr 2018
Roland Pease meets the quantum scientists hoping to bring Schrodinger's cat to life
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Barbara McLintock—Science Stories: Series 5
Mon 9 Apr 2018
Philip Ball tells the story of US geneticist and 1983 Nobel prize winner Barbara McLintock
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D'Arcy Thompson—Science Stories: Series 5
Mon 2 Apr 2018
A man who put maths into biology and saw physics in shells, seeds and bees 100 years ago
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The Far Future
Mon 26 Mar 2018
What fragments of our civilisation will persist 10,000 years in the future?
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Killing Insects for Conservation
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Killing insects in the name of research upsets some people. How do scientists justify it?
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Why We Cut Men
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Across the world, 1 in 3 men are circumcised. Mary-Ann Ochota investigates why we cut men
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Phosphorus—In Their Element
Mon 5 Mar 2018
7/8 How a discovery in boiled urine led to the trade union movement and chemical weapons.
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The Power of Sloth
Mon 19 Feb 2018
Lucy Cooke discovers the joy of sloth and sloths and the benefits of being really slow.
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Pain of Torture—The Anatomy of Pain
Mon 12 Feb 2018
4/4 Does knowing that someone is inflicting pain on you deliberately make the pain worse?
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Controlling Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
Mon 5 Feb 2018
3/4 How do brains control pain? Irene Tracey asks can we distance ourselves from agony
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Knowing Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
Mon 29 Jan 2018
2/4 Phantom limb pain, babies鈥� pain, people without pain, help understand the nature of pain.
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Seeing Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
Mon 22 Jan 2018
1/4 Why do some people feel more pain than others and what happens in the brain during surgery
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Humphry Davy—Science Stories: Series 4
Mon 15 Jan 2018
4/4 The story of how Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas in 1799.
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Lise Meitner—Science Stories: Series 4
Mon 8 Jan 2018
3/4 How physicist Lise Meitner unlocked the science of the atom bomb that cost Hitler dearly
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The Day the Earth Moved
New Year's Day 2018
How scientists learned the earth鈥檚 crust is made up of shifting plates.
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Maria Merian—Science Stories: Series 4
Christmas Day 2017
2/4 How a 13-year old girl mapped metamorphosis in the 1600s. Naomi Alderman presents
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Alcuin of York—Science Stories: Series 4
Mon 18 Dec 2017
1/4 Philip Ball dives into the Dark Ages to reveal the author of the river crossing riddle
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Cheating the Atmosphere
Mon 11 Dec 2017
Dodgy emissions data could fatally undermine the Paris Climate Agreement
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What would happen if you fell into a black hole?
Mon 27 Nov 2017
Plus, could we make a sonic weapon?
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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!
