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Quantum Supremacy

With IBM, Google and Microsoft all making bold claims for quantum computing, what's up?

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History of the Rise of the Robots

From the Ancient Greeks to Maria in Metropolis, Adam Rutherford explores robots in culture

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Robots - More Human than Human?

Adam Rutherford explores our relationship with contemporary humanoid robots

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Can Robots be Truly Intelligent?

Adam Rutherford asks if we are ready for artificial intelligences making decisions for us

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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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Taking On Tobacco - Lung Cancer in Uruguay

Uruguay takes on Big Tobacco in crusade to save its citizens

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Screening and Treating Cervical Cancer in Tanzania

Anu Anand on how vinegar and a head torch are used to tackle cervical cancer in Tanzania

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The USA鈥檚 Deadly Racial Divide: Black Women & Breast Cancer

Anu Anand explores why more black women are more likely to die of breast cancer in the US

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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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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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The Day the Sun Went Dark

For the first time in almost 100 years the USA is experiencing a full solar eclipse

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Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet

The Origin of the Internet

The origins of the internet, and why nobody thought of making it secure

• 26 mins

Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet

Dark Side of the World Wide Web

Did the World Wide Web's Utopian ideals spread crime and obscenity?

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Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet

Internet of Things

Can we Control the Dark Side of the Internet?

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Africa鈥檚 Great Green Wall

Transforming the Sahal into the next wonder of the world through Africa鈥檚 Great Green Wall

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India's Ancient Science

Rediscovering influential Indian ideas on mathematics, metallurgy and engineering

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Indian Science 鈥� The Colonial Legacy

How did British imperialism affect India鈥檚 scientific development?

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SOS Snail

Helen Scales reports on the international rescue mission to save the Partula snail

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Sydney Brenner: A Revolutionary Biologist

Sydney Brenner talks about his part in the DNA revolution between the 1950s and 1980s

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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 cats find their way home?

Plus, why do we itch and should we scratch?

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Why can鈥檛 we remember being a baby?

Plus, could a party balloon reach space?

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Why can鈥檛 we remember being a baby?

Plus, could a party balloon reach space?

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What will happen when the Earth鈥檚 poles swap?

And why do planets spin?

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What would happen if you fell into a black hole?

Plus, could we make a sonic weapon?

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Better Brains

New hope for incurable neurodegenerative conditions such as dementia

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Cheating the Atmosphere

Dodgy emissions data could fatally undermine the Paris Climate Agreement

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The Day the Earth Moved

How scientists learned the earth鈥檚 crust is made up of shifting plates.

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Science Stories: Series 4

Alcuin of York

Philip Ball dives into the Dark Ages to reveal the author of the river crossing riddle

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Science Stories: Series 4

Maria Merian

How a 13-year old girl mapped metamorphosis in the 1600s. Naomi Alderman presents

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