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A new space age?
Could humans be on the Moon and Mars before this decade is out?
Deep sea exploration
The wonders and mysteries of the deep ocean, and the potential threats to it.
Tooth and claw: Spotted hyena
Professor Adam Hart resurrects the spotted hyena’s reputation, from scavenger to hunter
The Evidence: Drug-resistant superbugs
The silent pandemic - drug resistant infections threaten the future of modern medicine
Tooth and Claw: Venomous snakes
Adam Hart discovers why rattlesnakes make good mothers and how deadly their venom is.
Tooth and Claw: Army ant
Adam Hart explores the villain of many a jungle horror movie - the army ant.
Tooth and Claw: Wolves
Wolves play a dark role in our imaginations but how does the real animal compare?
The Life Scientific: Shankar Balasubramanian on decoding DNA
The man who found a way to decode DNA at speed
The Life Scientific: Steve Brusatte on the fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals
How did mammals come to dominate our planet? Prof Steve Brusatte talks to Jim Al-Khalili
The Evidence: War trauma and mental health
The psychological suffering caused by the toxic stress of war and conflict
Wild Inside: Jungle royalty - the Jaguar
Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside three animals from the big wild world.
Wild Inside: The Burmese Python
Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the internal secrets to success of the Burmese Python
Wild Inside: The Ocean Sunfish
Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish
The Mystery of the Teenage Brain
Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.
The weird waves of wi-fi
We use wi-fi every day, but do you know how it works?
Surprising symmetries
Two eyes, two arms, two legs - we are roughly symmetrical on the outside. Why is that?
The Shocking White Hair
The Evidence: The nature of mental health
Plant power and mental health. Is a nature-cure a cure-all?
The Turn of the Tide
Why are tide times and ranges so different around the UK, asks Lynn?
The colour conundrum
How do we see colour and why are some people colour blind?
The Life Scientific: Pete Smith
Restore peat bogs to mitigate climate change and improve bio-diversity.
The Life Scientific: Jacinta Tan
How does a person with anorexia nervosa think? Jacinta Tan sheds light on this illness
The Life Scientific: Adam Hart
When does a waggle dance become a tremble dance?
The mysterious particles of physics, part 1
The machine that found the Higgs Boson 10 years ago is about to start digging deeper
The mysterious particles of physics, part 2
Dark matter's dark secrets. Researchers seeking the unseen stuff that fills the universe
The mysterious particles of physics, part 3
Roland Pease explores the 100-km atom smasher physicists are planning at CERN
Plant based promises, rise of the plant based burger
Why do we need to eat more plant based foods? Giles Yeo looks at the alternatives.
Plant based promises and sustainability
Giles Yeo looks at the sustainability of plant based products
Plant based promises, diet and health
Giles learns to cook a plant based Thai green curry.
Satellites versus the stars
What are the benefits and unintended consequences of thousands more satellites in space?
How Covid changed science, part 1
What has been the impact of Covid on the practice of science?