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Explorations in the world of science.

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The Inflamed Mind
Can your immune system make you psychotic or depressed?
14 Nov 2016,26 mins
The City that Fell into the Earth
How do you move a city? Lesley Riddoch travels to Arctic Sweden to find out
07 Nov 2016,26 mins
The Sun King of China
Meet the undisputed leader of China's booming solar industry
31 Oct 2016,26 mins
The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic
Peter Gibbs explores Ascension Island, a barren Atlantic rock made fertile by man
24 Oct 2016,26 mins
Creating the Crick
Creating the Francis Crick Institute
17 Oct 2016,26 mins
Black Holes: A Tale of Cosmic Death and Rebirth
LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and the new astronomy of nature’s ultimate state of matter
10 Oct 2016,26 mins
The Whale Menopause
What do killer whales tell us about the human menopause?
03 Oct 2016,26 mins
Reversing Parkinson's
Cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease
26 Sep 2016,26 mins
Could we send our litter into space?
Plus, why is everything in space round?
19 Sep 2016,26 mins
Why do we faint?
And can animals count?
12 Sep 2016,26 mins
Why do people shout on their cellphones?
And what causes traffic jams?
05 Sep 2016,26 mins
How do you make the perfect cup of tea?
Plus, why do we cry? Is there any useful purpose?
29 Aug 2016,26 mins
What makes gingers ginger?
Plus, what is the point of body hair?
22 Aug 2016,26 mins
China Science Rising
Rebecca Morelle reports on China's science ambitions.
15 Aug 2016,26 mins
The Power of Cute
Lucy Cooke explores our seeming obsession with all things cute.
08 Aug 2016,26 mins
Cleaning Up the Oceans
Roland Pease asks what damage plastic waste is doing in the oceans
04 Jul 2016,26 mins
Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part 4: The Arctic
New life, new dangers and new hopes for the endangered shorebirds on the tundra
27 Jun 2016,26 mins
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?
20 Jun 2016,26 mins
Life on the East Asian Flyway – Part Two: Yellow Sea South
Hear the calls of the Chinese bird hunter turned conservationist
13 Jun 2016,26 mins
Life on the East Asian Flyway
The world’s greatest migration - countless birds fly north from Australia to the Arctic
06 Jun 2016,26 mins
The Neglected Sense
Kathy Clugston is anosmic - she has no sense of smell and sets out to discover why
30 May 2016,26 mins
After Ebola
Rebuilding Sierra Leone’s healthcare system
23 May 2016,26 mins
Benefits of Bilingualism - Part Two
The benefits of bilingualism: keeping our minds healthy
16 May 2016,26 mins
Benefits of Bilingualism - Part One
Gaia Vince explores the benefits of bilingualism for children
09 May 2016,26 mins
Our Unnatural Selection
How humans are inadvertently driving the evolution of other species
02 May 2016,26 mins
Science Stories: Series 2 - Margaret Cavendish
Aristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method
25 Apr 2016,26 mins
Science Stories: Series 2 - Orgueil Meteorite
The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years.
18 Apr 2016,26 mins
The Horn Dilemma
Will the sale of harvested rhino horn help to stop poaching?
11 Apr 2016,26 mins
African Einsteins
Will Einstein’s successors be African? It’s very likely - and some of them will be women
04 Apr 2016,26 mins
Feeding the World - Part Two
How to future proof our crops above and below ground, to endure climate change
28 Mar 2016,26 mins