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Explorations in the world of science.
World Service,·1473 episodes
Are humans creating a new geological epoch through climate change and fossil fuels?
29 Oct 2012,·17 mins
Is humanity launching a new geological age on the Earth?
22 Oct 2012,·17 mins
Speeding up the drug development process to treat the major diseases facing us
15 Oct 2012,·17 mins
The long and expensive struggle to get medicines to market
08 Oct 2012,·17 mins
Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.
01 Oct 2012,·17 mins
The science of hearing; cochlear implants; the sound of deafness
24 Sep 2012,·17 mins
Can you apply Darwin's theory of natural selection to music and create the perfect tune?
17 Sep 2012,·17 mins
Lunar and stellar insights on Hamlet and Frankenstein. Astronomy and literature collide.
10 Sep 2012,·17 mins
Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders.
03 Sep 2012,·17 mins
Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian about her Life Scientific.
27 Aug 2012,·17 mins
On the Brahmaputra, counting and saving the Ganges River Dolphin.
13 Aug 2012,·17 mins
Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars – the search for extraterrestrial life steps up.
06 Aug 2012,·17 mins
Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who are designing flying cars and green aircraft.
30 Jul 2012,·17 mins
Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who will transform the way we fly around the world.
23 Jul 2012,·17 mins
Prof Andrea Sella reports on the race to better nature at harnessing the sun's energy.
16 Jul 2012,·17 mins
Vivienne Parry meets scientists hoping to create artificial blood.
09 Jul 2012,·17 mins
Geoff Watts explores new techniques in gene therapy for cystic fibrosis
02 Jul 2012,·17 mins
Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer.
25 Jun 2012,·17 mins
Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer
18 Jun 2012,·17 mins
Suppressed research into how bird flu could become more infectious has now been released.
11 Jun 2012,·17 mins
Marek Kukula explores the science behind the Transit of Venus 2012.
04 Jun 2012,·17 mins
Physicist Tejinder Virdee on the search for the elusive Higgs boson at Cern.
28 May 2012,·17 mins
Kevin Fong looks at the birth of plastic surgery and its links to the air battles of WWII.
21 May 2012,·17 mins
Carinne Piekema explores the science of moral behaviour and the ethical issues this raises
14 May 2012,·17 mins
Could health depend on what happens in the womb? Mark Porter reports on this new idea.
07 May 2012,·17 mins
Why do we need to send people to explore Mars – and who is likely to take them there?
30 Apr 2012,·17 mins
Can the heroic age of Antarctic exploration show the way back to the Moon?
23 Apr 2012,·17 mins
Amundsen may have beaten Scott to the South Pole but science was the real winner.
16 Apr 2012,·17 mins
Extended Special re-creating the Titanic Morse code conversation 100 years later.
09 Apr 2012,·17 mins
Lynne Malcolm discusses what the future holds for the health of the human body.
02 Apr 2012,·26 mins
