Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
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Sexual Nature 1/3
Mon 4 Feb 2013
Frolicking fossils and suggestive theories - the evolutionary history of sex
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The ENCODE Project
Mon 21 Jan 2013
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
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John Gurdon
Mon 14 Jan 2013
2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep
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Jared Diamond
Mon 7 Jan 2013
Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea
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The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist
Mon 31 Dec 2012
Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.
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Why do women outlive men
Christmas Eve 2012
Why do women live longer than men? Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing
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Piltdown Man
Mon 17 Dec 2012
Piltdown Man 鈥� could such a shocking case of scientific fraud happen again?
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Last Man, First Scientist on the Moon
Mon 3 Dec 2012
An interview with the only geologist to explore the moon's surface, Harrison Schmitt
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Hallucination 1/2
Mon 19 Nov 2012
Understanding hallucination may provide new treatments for psychosis and schizophrenia
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The Age We Made
Mon 12 Nov 2012
How might cities, mobile phones and humans become fossilised in years to come?
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The Age We Made - Part 3
Mon 5 Nov 2012
Are humans launching a new geological epoch through species extinction and farming?
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The Age We Made - Part 2
Mon 29 Oct 2012
Are humans creating a new geological epoch through climate change and fossil fuels?
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End of Drug Discovery
Mon 15 Oct 2012
Speeding up the drug development process to treat the major diseases facing us
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The sound of deafness
Mon 24 Sep 2012
The science of hearing; cochlear implants; the sound of deafness
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Darwin's Tunes
Mon 17 Sep 2012
Can you apply Darwin's theory of natural selection to music and create the perfect tune?
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Frankenstein's Moon
Mon 10 Sep 2012
Lunar and stellar insights on Hamlet and Frankenstein. Astronomy and literature collide.
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Episode 3—Scott's Legacy
Sat 8 Sep 2012
3/2 Why do we need to send people to explore Mars 鈥� and who is likely to take them there?
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The Life Scientific : Lloyd Peck - Antarctic Scientist
Mon 3 Sep 2012
Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders.
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Episode 2—Scott's Legacy
Sat 1 Sep 2012
2/2 Can the heroic age of Antarctic exploration show the way back to the moon?
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The Life Scientific : Barbara Sahakian - Neuroscientist
Mon 27 Aug 2012
Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian about her Life Scientific.
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Episode 1—Scott's Legacy
Fri 17 Aug 2012
1/2 Amundsen may have beaten Scott to the South Pole but science was the real winner
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Saving the Ganges River Dolphin
Mon 13 Aug 2012
On the Brahmaputra, counting and saving the Ganges River Dolphin.
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Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars
Mon 6 Aug 2012
Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars 鈥� the search for extraterrestrial life steps up.
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Future Flight: Prog 2 of 2
Mon 30 Jul 2012
Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who are designing flying cars and green aircraft.
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!
