Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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Oceans - What Lies Beneath
Gabrielle Walker looks at how little we understand the oceans, and talks to scientists making extraordinary discoveries.
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New Guinea Singing Dogs
Is the New Guinea singing dog a relic of the first dogs that bonded with prehistoric man?
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New Galileos 鈥� the Large Binocular Telescope
The Large Binocular Telescope will study Earthlike planets being born around distant stars
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New Galileos 鈥� the James Webb Space Telescope
The giant James Webb Space Telescope that will replace the Hubble in five years' time
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Maths, Physics and the Financial Crisis
What impact have maths and physics had on finance and economics?
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Looking into the Mind 鈥� When the Brain goes Wrong
What happens when bits of our brain stop working normally?
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Looking into the Mind 鈥� Watching the Brain think
Brain imaging techniques show scientists our thoughts and intentions
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Looking forward to the opening of SESAME
The SESAME project in Jordan aims to heal old wounds through doing science together
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Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner: the humanitarian physicist who unlocked the science of the atom bomb
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Light Fantastic 鈥� Metamaterials
The new metamaterials that are extending the science and reach of optics
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Light Fantastic 鈥� Lasers
Lasers and the full force of light
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Life's Soundtrack 鈥� The human voice
How the sounds we make and the sounds we hear change during our lifetime
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Life's Soundtrack 鈥� Hearing the world
Human hearing and what does a baby in the womb actually hear?
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Killing Insects for Conservation
Killing insects in the name of research upsets some people. How do scientists justify it?
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Introducing: Season 2 of 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter
How animals make us smarter 鈥� we thought you might like to hear our brand new episode
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Introducing The Bomb
Emily鈥檚 grandad worked on the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. Could it have been stopped?
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In Darwin's Shadow 鈥� Taking his great work forward
How biology is still driven by Charles Darwin's 150-year-old book, The Origin of Species
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In Darwin's Shadow 鈥� Natural Selection today
How Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection can be seen to work in the modern world
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In Darwin's Shadow 鈥� Evolution and Geology
How does our knowledge of evolution fit in with discoveries of modern geology?
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In Darwin's Shadow 鈥� Disease and Natural Selection
Why HIV is an example of how Darwin's theory of natural selection works
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In Darwin's Shadow
Professor Steve Jones, talks to scientists and historians about how Darwins ideas have influenced research in crop development.
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In Darwin's Shadow
Steve Jones talks to evolutionary biologists working in the field of HIV to explain Darwins theory of natural selection.
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In Darwin's Shadow
Professor Steve Jones looks at how Darwin can help us unpick the great geological questions of today.
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In Darwin's Shadow
Explorations in the world of science.
