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Explorations in the world of science.

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On the Trail of the American Honeybee 1/2
How honeybees and their keepers travel vast distances pollinating America's crops
27 May 2013,26 mins
Deep Sea Vents
Are newly discovered deep ocean ecosystems threatened by deep sea mining?
20 May 2013,26 mins
After Sandy
How can science protect New York from future super storms?
13 May 2013,26 mins
The Crying Game
Why do we cry and why are emotional tears a uniquely human trait?
06 May 2013,26 mins
A Trip Around Mars - Part Two
Canyons, craters and mountains: The spectacular Martian terrain carved by swathes of water
29 Apr 2013,26 mins
A Trip Around Mars with Kevin Fong - Part One
The alien mountains, canyons and craters that inspire scientists and writers
22 Apr 2013,26 mins
Noel Sharkey
Jim Al-Khalili talks to roboticist and psychologist, Noel Sharkey.
15 Apr 2013,26 mins
Annette Karmiloff-Smith on toddlers and TV
Should babies under two watch TV? Jim talks to psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith.
13 Apr 2013,26 mins
Obituary: Margaret Thatcher
An obituary of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
08 Apr 2013,26 mins
Premiership Science
Like football, science is an international endeavour complete with its own stars.
01 Apr 2013,26 mins
What If... We could stay young forever? 3/3
Peter Bowes concludes his exploration of the drive to live longer by looking at diet.
18 Mar 2013,17 mins
What If... We could stay young forever? 2/3
Peter Bowes asks if exercise and lifestyle changes hold the key to staying young.
11 Mar 2013,17 mins
What If... We could stay young forever? 1/3
Peter Bowes explores how science and lifestyle could hold the promise to staying young.
04 Mar 2013,17 mins
What If... We could all become cyborgs?
Dr Andrew Holding meets some of the people straddling the line between man and machine.
25 Feb 2013,17 mins
Sexual Nature 3/3
Life’s many paths to being female or male: in humans, komodo dragons and transexual fish
18 Feb 2013,17 mins
Sexual Nature 2/3
How did sex begin and why do some many species keep doing it?
11 Feb 2013,17 mins
Sexual Nature 1/3
Frolicking fossils and suggestive theories - the evolutionary history of sex
04 Feb 2013,17 mins
Quantum Biology
What is quantum biology and why is it important?
28 Jan 2013,17 mins
The ENCODE Project
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
21 Jan 2013,17 mins
John Gurdon
2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep
14 Jan 2013,17 mins
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea
07 Jan 2013,17 mins
The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist
Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.
31 Dec 2012,17 mins
Why do women outlive men
Why do women live longer than men? Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing
24 Dec 2012,17 mins
Piltdown Man
Piltdown Man – could such a shocking case of scientific fraud happen again?
17 Dec 2012,17 mins
Particle Physics
What are particle physicists doing after finding the Higgs boson?
10 Dec 2012,17 mins
Last Man, First Scientist on the Moon
An interview with the only geologist to explore the moon's surface, Harrison Schmitt
03 Dec 2012,17 mins
Hallucination 2/2
Geoff Watts explores the science of hallucination.
26 Nov 2012,17 mins
Hallucination 1/2
Understanding hallucination may provide new treatments for psychosis and schizophrenia
19 Nov 2012,17 mins
The Age We Made
How might cities, mobile phones and humans become fossilised in years to come?
12 Nov 2012,17 mins
The Age We Made - Part 3
Are humans launching a new geological epoch through species extinction and farming?
05 Nov 2012,17 mins