Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
Episodes to download
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How do you make the perfect cup of tea?
Mon 29 Aug 2016
Plus, why do we cry? Is there any useful purpose?
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Cleaning Up the Oceans
Mon 4 Jul 2016
Roland Pease asks what damage plastic waste is doing in the oceans
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Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part 4: The Arctic
Mon 27 Jun 2016
New life, new dangers and new hopes for the endangered shorebirds on the tundra
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Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part Three: Yellow Sea North
Mon 20 Jun 2016
Can China鈥檚 birdwatchers and North Korea鈥檚 economy save migratory birds from extinction?
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Life on the East Asian Flyway 鈥� Part Two: Yellow Sea South
Mon 13 Jun 2016
Hear the calls of the Chinese bird hunter turned conservationist
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Life on the East Asian Flyway
Mon 6 Jun 2016
The world鈥檚 greatest migration - countless birds fly north from Australia to the Arctic
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The Neglected Sense
Mon 30 May 2016
Kathy Clugston is anosmic - she has no sense of smell and sets out to discover why
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Benefits of Bilingualism - Part Two
Mon 16 May 2016
The benefits of bilingualism: keeping our minds healthy
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Benefits of Bilingualism - Part One
Mon 9 May 2016
Gaia Vince explores the benefits of bilingualism for children
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Our Unnatural Selection
Mon 2 May 2016
How humans are inadvertently driving the evolution of other species
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Science Stories: Series 2 - Margaret Cavendish
Mon 25 Apr 2016
Aristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method
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Science Stories: Series 2 - Orgueil Meteorite
Mon 18 Apr 2016
The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years.
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African Einsteins
Mon 4 Apr 2016
Will Einstein鈥檚 successors be African? It鈥檚 very likely - and some of them will be women
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Feeding the World - Part Two
Mon 28 Mar 2016
How to future proof our crops above and below ground, to endure climate change
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Feeding the World - Part One
Mon 21 Mar 2016
Kathy Willis meets scientists seeking the genetic diversity to future-proof our crops
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Editing the Genome - Part Two
Mon 14 Mar 2016
Should we try to wipe out mosquitoes? With CRISPR, it may now be possible.
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Editing the Genome
Mon 7 Mar 2016
We have a powerful new tool to alter DNA. What medical uses should be off limits?
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Science Stories: Series 1 - Einstein鈥檚 Ice Box
Mon 29 Feb 2016
What happened when Einstein decided to fix the fridge?
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Science Stories: Series 1 - Eels and Human Electricity
Mon 22 Feb 2016
How an eel sparked our interest in electricity
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Science Stories: Series 1 - Cornelis Drebbel
Mon 15 Feb 2016
The magical world of Cornelis Drebbel, inventor of the first submarine in 1621
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El Nino
Mon 8 Feb 2016
El Nino in the Pacific is in full swing, threatening with flood, fire and famine
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An Infinite Monkey's Guide to General Relativity
Mon 1 Feb 2016
Brian Cox and Robin Ince explore the legacy of Einstein's great theory.
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An Infinite Monkey's Guide to General Relativity
Mon 25 Jan 2016
Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's great theory
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!
