Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Matters Of The Heart - part two
A report on the work of cardiologists
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Matters Of The Heart - part one
How Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has given doctors a new understanding of the heart
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Disaster Reconstruction - New York
Rebuilding the heart of New York following the 9/11 attacks
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Saving the brain - part four
Can the brain help heal itself after an injury or illness?
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Saving the brain - part three
How to help the versatility of the brain, by keeping mentally active
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Saving the brain - part two
Exploring cell replacement therapy to help replace dying brain cells
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Disaster Reconstruction - London
The programme looks at how a gas explosion killed five people in Newham, east London
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Disaster Reconstruction - Turkey
A look at the reconstruction after the aftermath of the Izmit earthquake in 1999
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Saving the brain
How advances in surgery are helping those with brain injuries or tumours
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Strange Senses
A report on the theory that animals can sense the Earth's magnetic field
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How much can we trust scientists?
Controversy over research on genetically modified maize in Mexico
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Why elephants never forget
A report on how elephants use their sixth 'seismic' sense
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Living beyond our means
Are we asking more of nature than it can provide?
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First Technology - metals
How the manipulation of metals 10,000 years ago helped our ancestors
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First Technology - pottery
Humans are the only creatures to have mastered the use of fire
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First Technology - man's best friend
The domestication of animals and how the partnership helped man evolve
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The demise of the big animals
What caused the extinction of some of the world's largest mammals, some 15,000 years ago?
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First Technology - crops
How the Neolithic revolution changed the course of mankind's future
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Solar Neutrinos
The problematic elementary particles which have to investigated deep underground
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The Hubble Telescope and the first stars
Tracking down the first stars using Hubble space telescope
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Robots - part four
An investigation into the robots of the future
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Robots - part three
An investigation into robots of tomorrow, designed to work with people
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Robots - part two
Second in a series on the robots of tomorrow, robots designed to work with people
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Robots - part one
An investigation into the robots of tomorrow
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Anthropology - the modern world
Social anthropology - how human beings behave in social groups
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Anthropology - the early anthropologist
Second in a series examining the discipline of social anthropology
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Anthropology - the angry anthropologist
First in a series examining the discipline of social anthropology
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Sacred Showdown - human reproduction
What have been the advances made in engineering human reproduction by scientists?
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Sacred Showdown - near-death experiences
A look at how scientists have attempted to explain near-death experiences and spirituality
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Sacred Showdown - the science of belief
For centuries science and religion have not been on speaking terms
