Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Ancient Olympics - getting ready
The preparations made by athletes and authorities taking part in the ancient olympics
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The New Space Race - part two
A series on space exploration and how the playing field has changed
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The New Space Race - part one
A series on space exploration and how the playing field has changed
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The Brain - brave new world
First in a two part series on attempts to understand the human brain
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The Brain - cognitive enhancement
First in a two part series on attempts to understand the human brain
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Venus - across the Sun
Second of a two-part series on Venus as astronomers prepare to view a rare planetary event
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Venus - portrait of a planet
In some ways, Venus is the twin of Earth, in other ways it most certainly is not
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Before the Big Bang
What happened before the Big Bang?
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Columbia Astronauts
A report from Wyoming where the 2003 Columbia astronauts went on a wilderness expedition
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Predicting Behaviour
Investigation into the ability of predicting human behaviour and the 'theory of mind'
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The aliens around us - archea
Organisms that defy the conventional rules of biology
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The obesity crisis?
A look at the obesity crisis, is it the next major epidemic?
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Marathon Man - Go!
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Science Correspondent, Richard Black makes his final preparations for the marathon
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Marathon Man - set
Our correspondent prepares for the London Marathon, the second in a series
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Marathon Man - on your marks
The first in three programmes on preparing for the London Marathon
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Good Vibrations - electromagnetism
How we use electromagnetism in modern life
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Good Vibrations - acoustic energy
The power of sound and how we use acoustic energy
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Living Together - gannets
Gannet colonies bear similarities to human congregations, so can they teach us anything?
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Living Together - ants
How ants live together - the social skills of leaf cutter ants
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Climate Wars - part one
Why the science of climate change is subject to enormous political pressure
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Climate Wars - part two
The UN framework convention on climate change, and the consensus needed to enforce it
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Astronomy and Myths - part two
The astrological traditions and myths from India and China
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Astronomy and Myths - part one
Throughout history different societies have found different truths in the stars
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Cancer - part four
New anti-tumour biological agents being researched around the world
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Cancer - part three
Prospects for new and better drugs to treat cancer
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Cancer - part two
New ideas for catching cancers early in their development
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Cancer - part one
Report on new treatments and drugs being developed in the fight against cancer
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Evolutionary music
The history of human musical development, discovered through archaeology
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The Wright Brothers
The story of the Wright brothers' first flight in North Carolina
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Galaxies
Change, drama, evolution and surprise in the galaxy-strewn cosmos
