Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
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Annette Karmiloff-Smith on toddlers and TV
Sat 13 Apr 2013
Should babies under two watch TV? Jim talks to psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith.
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Premiership Science
Mon 1 Apr 2013
Like football, science is an international endeavour complete with its own stars.
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What If... We could stay young forever? 3/3
Mon 18 Mar 2013
Peter Bowes concludes his exploration of the drive to live longer by looking at diet.
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What If... We could stay young forever? 2/3
Mon 11 Mar 2013
Peter Bowes asks if exercise and lifestyle changes hold the key to staying young.
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What If... We could stay young forever? 1/3
Mon 4 Mar 2013
Peter Bowes explores how science and lifestyle could hold the promise to staying young.
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What If... We could all become cyborgs?
Mon 25 Feb 2013
Dr Andrew Holding meets some of the people straddling the line between man and machine.
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Sexual Nature 3/3
Mon 18 Feb 2013
Life’s many paths to being female or male: in humans, komodo dragons and transexual fish
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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 – 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 – and who is likely to take them there?
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!
