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The Horn Dilemma
Will the sale of harvested rhino horn help to stop poaching?
Science Stories: Series 2 - Orgueil Meteorite
The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years.
Science Stories: Series 2 - Margaret Cavendish
Aristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method
Our Unnatural Selection
How humans are inadvertently driving the evolution of other species
Benefits of Bilingualism - Part One
Gaia Vince explores the benefits of bilingualism for children
Benefits of Bilingualism - Part Two
The benefits of bilingualism: keeping our minds healthy
After Ebola
Rebuilding Sierra Leone’s healthcare system
The Neglected Sense
Kathy Clugston is anosmic - she has no sense of smell and sets out to discover why
Life on the East Asian Flyway
The world’s greatest migration - countless birds fly north from Australia to the Arctic
Life on the East Asian Flyway – Part Two: Yellow Sea South
Hear the calls of the Chinese bird hunter turned conservationist
Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part Three: Yellow Sea North
Can China’s birdwatchers and North Korea’s economy save migratory birds from extinction?
Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part 4: The Arctic
New life, new dangers and new hopes for the endangered shorebirds on the tundra
Cleaning Up the Oceans
Roland Pease asks what damage plastic waste is doing in the oceans
The Power of Cute
Lucy Cooke explores our seeming obsession with all things cute.
China Science Rising
Rebecca Morelle reports on China's science ambitions.
What makes gingers ginger?
Plus, what is the point of body hair?
How do you make the perfect cup of tea?
Plus, why do we cry? Is there any useful purpose?
Why do people shout on their cellphones?
And what causes traffic jams?
Why do we faint?
And can animals count?
Could we send our litter into space?
Plus, why is everything in space round?
Reversing Parkinson's
Cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease
The Whale Menopause
What do killer whales tell us about the human menopause?
Black Holes: A Tale of Cosmic Death and Rebirth
LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and the new astronomy of nature’s ultimate state of matter
Creating the Crick
Creating the Francis Crick Institute
The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic
Peter Gibbs explores Ascension Island, a barren Atlantic rock made fertile by man
The Sun King of China
Meet the undisputed leader of China's booming solar industry
The City that Fell into the Earth
How do you move a city? Lesley Riddoch travels to Arctic Sweden to find out
The Inflamed Mind
Can your immune system make you psychotic or depressed?
Custom of Cutting
An investigation into female genital mutilation in East and West Africa
Mind Reading
Gaia Vince explores how scientists are trying to read others' minds.
Origins of Human Culture
What’s special about human culture