Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Perfect Pitch
Perfect pitch and its implications in brain activity
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Scarring
How our understanding of wound healing has been transformed
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Econophysics
The science of finance, and how traders, dealers and brokers avoid losses
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Machines like us?
Computers can now create and analyse images of the body, but can they be trusted?
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The Great Dinosaur Hunt - part two
The first in a three-part selected history of those who discovered the dinosaurs
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The Great Dinosaur Hunt - part one
The first in a three-part selected history of those who discovered the dinosaurs
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Machines like us
How the design of machines is being made more and more with safety in mind
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Metal Mickey comes of age
The programme looks at the debate over artificial intelligence, and what it is
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The Living Universe and Cosmology
A history of cosmology, commentators include the physicist Paul Davies
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The Living Universe and the Big Bang
Exploration of the universe and the big bang theory
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The Living Universe
A look at the continuing evolution of the cosmos
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Shape Memory Alloys
Special report on the discovery and use of shape memory alloys
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Dark matter
Why cosmologists are confused over the existence and influence of dark matter
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Warm World III - the future
What can be done in the future to offset the worst effects of climate change
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Warm World - climate change
Can geological sequestration save us from climate change?
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Warm World - burying greenhouse gases
Exploring the ways of storing greenhouse gases
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Can the information revolution save the world?
Could IT be the catalyst that helps propel developing economies and societies
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Technology - patently absurd?
The patent system is supposed to protect inventors and encourage innovation
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Human genome project
The importance of the human genome project in modern genetics
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Gene Pioneers - part one
Explosive progress of molecular genetics and the human genome project
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Gene Pioneers - part three
Discussion on gene therapy with guest Dr Inda Vermer
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Living computers
Living computers - a combination of technology and living organic tissue
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Life Story - flying dinosaurs
How dinosaurs learned to fly
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Life Story - the Proterozoic era
A look at life in the pre-Cambrian era, more than half a billion years ago
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Life story - the Cambrian period
A look at life in the Cambrian period, 500 million years ago
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Conservation and consumerism
A report on conflicting priorities in conservation
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Three years after Kyoto
A look at what has happened since the Kyoto agreement on climate change 3 years ago
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The shape of the universe
The science of cosmology, which involves measuring the unmeasurable
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Circadian rhythms
The importance of the human body's natural clock or circadian rhythms
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Performance clothing
Can sports clothing and equipment make a difference to an athlete's performance?
