Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Lost Continents - Africa
How the continent of Africa split apart to form a new ocean
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Lost Continents - First Continent
The search for the first continent
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Lost Continents - Ocean
How an entire ocean vanished, when the European continent was formed
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Lost Continents - India
How the subcontinent was formed - the story of the Indian land mass
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Water pollution in Lagos
How Nigeria's growing population is placing a strain on its clean water supply
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Keeping Los Angeles hydrated
How Los Angeles gets its water supply, despite being in a near-desert region
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Deep Impact
How might the Earth protect itself against an asteroid strike?
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Marconi's legacy
A look at the story behind Guglielmo Marconi's success and his continuing legacy
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Post Soviet Science - Cuba
What does the future hold in store for Cuban biotechnology and scientific research?
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Post Soviet Science - Vietnam
What the future holds for science in Vietnam after the end of the war in 1975
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Post-Soviet Science - Germany
How the reunification of East and West Germany affected scientific research
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Post-Soviet science - USSR
A look at what has happened to scientific research in the former Soviet Union
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The future of air travel
Today's aeronautical engineers attempt to define the next era of flight after Concorde
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The train of the future
Special report on new train technology and the train's evolution
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Electric cars and the car of the future
A report on electric cars, could they help solve the energy crisis?
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HIV and Aids in Africa
The massive problem of HIV infection in Africa
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Dark Energy
Dark energy,a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space
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Where to put nuclear waste - part two
The issue of nuclear waste which can remain dangerous for millions of years
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Where to put nuclear waste
What is to be done with large amount of dangerous civilian nuclear waste around the world?
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Angiogenesis
Report on new medical treatment angiogenesis
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The First Explorers - America and Asia
The first explorers who entered the American continent toward the end of the last Ice Age
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The First Explorers - Europe
Archaeologists are now turning to our genes to investigate the history of our species
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The First Explorers - Australia
The prehistoric migration of humans, the first explorers on Earth
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Pain - a necessary evil
Geoff Watts explores the science of pain
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Pain and its role
The role of acute pain in the human body
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Black holes
The phenomenon of black holes explained
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Alchemy that could save the planet
Chemistry designed to reduce ecological damage and global warming
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The New Alchemists - part three
The third of Roland Pease's explorations of the frontiers of chemistry
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The New Alchemists - part two
The second of Roland Pease's explorations of the frontiers of chemistry
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The New Alchemists - part one
Report on molecular science and the work of Italian scientist Vincenzo Balzani
