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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
Science Stories: Series 3 - Making the Earth Move
How a dying man's book demoted the earth and reconstructed the universe.
Science Stories: Series 3 - Testosterone: Elixir of Masculinity
How testosterone has been used and abused in history
Science Stories: Series 3 - The Woman Who Tamed Lightning
Hertha Ayrton was the first woman admitted to the Institution of Electrical Engineers
Science Stories: Series 3 - Mesmerism and Parapsychology
The showmanship of Anton Mesmer and the rise and fall of animal magnetism
The Future of the Climate Deal
What will President Trump mean for international deals to avert climate change?
Sesame Open
The new science facility, SESAME, that aims to promote peace in the middle east