Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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How much of my body is bacteria?
Plus, why do we have different blood types?
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How do we make Vaccines?
How do vaccines work and why do they need to be updated?
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How do cats find their way home?
Plus, why do we itch and should we scratch?
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Hopes and fears for Covid-19 vaccines
Vaccines and virus mutations
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Going Lean: Health and the Toyota Way
Kevin Fong discovers how a car maker is helping to improve healthcare
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Giles Yeo
Giles Yeo reveals the role our genes play in the obesity epidemic.
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Geoengineering
Explorations in the world of science.
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Failing Gracefully
Dr Kevin Fong explores the role technology plays in high-risk systems
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Evolutionary biologist Alice Roberts
Explorations in the world of science.
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Evolution and the age of human Death
When did humans start living into old age and what were the benefits for us as a species?
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Energy Harvesting
Converting ambient energy in our environment to power devices instead of batteries
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Eating Well in Lyon: Healthy Diets to prevent Bowel Cancer
Anu Anand is in Lyon, looking at what we eat and drink and the risk of bowel cancer
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Earworms and Static
Explorations in the world of science.
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Dying in Comfort in Mongolia
The Mongolian matriarch who is helping people with terminal liver cancer die in comfort
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Drawing on history 鈥� Gray's Anatomy
Why is Gray's Anatomy still so valuable 150 years after its first publication?
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Desalination 鈥� Fresh water for everyone?
Is reverse osmosis desalination the answer to shortages of drinking water?
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Death In The Old Stone Age
When did our ancestors evolve lifespans on a par with modern humans into their sixties and seventies?
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Dare to Repair 鈥� How We Broke the Future
Why electronic gadgets don鈥檛 last as long as they used to and why repairing them is hard.
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Dangers In The Dust
Explorations in the world of science.
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Covid-19: Recovery
The latest on how people are recovering from Covid-19
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Colour Coded 2
Trevor Phillips looks at how descriptions of humanity according to skin colour continue to shape racial prejudices & behaviours.
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Colour Coded
Trevor Phillips looks at how descriptions of humanity according to skin colour continue to shape racial prejudices & behaviours.
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Cloning your favourite pet
Who would pay thousands of dollars to have a clone of their favourite cat or dog?
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Climate grief
Explorations in the world of science.
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CERN 鈥� the world's biggest Science Experiment
The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest science experiment ever built
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Catching Prostate Cancer Early in Trinidad
Anu Anand on detecting and treating prostate cancer in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Canada's vast Oil Reserves
Extracting oil from the Athabasca tar sands in Canada 鈥� at what price?
