Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
Episodes to download
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Sydney Brenner: A Revolutionary Biologist
Mon 23 Oct 2017
Sydney Brenner talks about his part in the DNA revolution between the 1950s and 1980s
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SOS Snail
Mon 16 Oct 2017
Helen Scales reports on the international rescue mission to save the Partula snail
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Indian Science 鈥� The Colonial Legacy
Mon 9 Oct 2017
How did British imperialism affect India鈥檚 scientific development?
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India's Ancient Science
Mon 2 Oct 2017
Rediscovering influential Indian ideas on mathematics, metallurgy and engineering
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Africa鈥檚 Great Green Wall
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Transforming the Sahal into the next wonder of the world through Africa鈥檚 Great Green Wall
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Internet of Things—Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet
Mon 18 Sep 2017
3/3 Can we Control the Dark Side of the Internet?
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Dark Side of the World Wide Web—Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet
Mon 11 Sep 2017
2/3 Did the World Wide Web's Utopian ideals spread crime and obscenity?
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The Origin of the Internet—Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet
Mon 4 Sep 2017
1/3 The origins of the internet, and why nobody thought of making it secure
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Silicon - The World's Building Block—In Their Element
Mon 28 Aug 2017
5/8 The key component of rocks, sand and materials from glass and concrete to microelectronics
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The Day the Sun Went Dark
Mon 21 Aug 2017
For the first time in almost 100 years the USA is experiencing a full solar eclipse
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Carbon - the backbone of life—In Their Element
Mon 14 Aug 2017
4/8 Why is all known life built on carbon?
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And then there was Li—In Their Element
Mon 7 Aug 2017
3/8 The element that links the formation of the universe with the functioning of our brains
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Oxygen: The breath of Life—In Their Element
Mon 31 Jul 2017
2/8 Trevor Cox takes a deep breath and tells the story of oxygen on earth and in space
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Mercury - Chemistry's Jekyll and Hyde—In Their Element
Mon 24 Jul 2017
1/8 The most beautiful and shimmering of the elements, the weirdest, and yet the most reviled
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Eating Well in Lyon: Healthy Diets to prevent Bowel Cancer
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Anu Anand is in Lyon, looking at what we eat and drink and the risk of bowel cancer
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Catching Prostate Cancer Early in Trinidad
Mon 10 Jul 2017
Anu Anand on detecting and treating prostate cancer in Trinidad and Tobago.
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The USA鈥檚 Deadly Racial Divide: Black Women & Breast Cancer
Mon 3 Jul 2017
Anu Anand explores why more black women are more likely to die of breast cancer in the US
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Screening and Treating Cervical Cancer in Tanzania
Mon 26 Jun 2017
Anu Anand on how vinegar and a head torch are used to tackle cervical cancer in Tanzania
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Taking On Tobacco - Lung Cancer in Uruguay
Wed 21 Jun 2017
Uruguay takes on Big Tobacco in crusade to save its citizens
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Dying in Comfort in Mongolia
Fri 16 Jun 2017
The Mongolian matriarch who is helping people with terminal liver cancer die in comfort
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Can Robots be Truly Intelligent?
Mon 5 Jun 2017
Adam Rutherford asks if we are ready for artificial intelligences making decisions for us
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Robots - More Human than Human?
Mon 29 May 2017
Adam Rutherford explores our relationship with contemporary humanoid robots
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History of the Rise of the Robots
Mon 22 May 2017
From the Ancient Greeks to Maria in Metropolis, Adam Rutherford explores robots in culture
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Quantum Supremacy
Mon 15 May 2017
With IBM, Google and Microsoft all making bold claims for quantum computing, what's up?
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Re-engineering Life
Mon 8 May 2017
Roland Pease meets the engineers and biologists hacking life's circuits
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Lifechangers: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mon 17 Apr 2017
Kevin Fong talks to astrophysicist and populariser of science, Neil deGrasse Tyson
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!
