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Discovery Episodes

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    Painful Medicine

    The hidden problem of addiction to over-the-counter painkillers

  2. Chris Toumazou

    European Inventor of the Year, Chris Toumazou, on the science of invention

  3. The Making of the Moon

    The past, the present and the future of the Moon

  4. Trauma at War

    Exploring trauma medicine on the frontline in Afghanistan

  5. Trauma: The Fight for Life

    How modern trauma medicine evolved from conflict and catastrophe to help save lives

  6. Brian Cox

    Physicist and media star Brian Cox on fame and quantum mechanics

  7. Urine Trouble: What’s in our Water

    What happens to the medicines we take after they leave our body?

  8. Patients Doing It for Themselves

    How patients are taking control of their own treatment and their own clinical trials

  9. Preventing Disease in Animals

    The pioneering genetic techniques to combat disease in our livestock

  10. Beyond the Abyss

    Exploring the ocean's deepest realm - the Hadal zone, 6,000 to 11,000 metres down

  11. Power Transmission

    Could super grids supplying DC electricity be the solution to rising demand for energy?

  12. Biosafety

    As mistakes involving deadly pathogens come to light, what lessons will be learnt?

  13. Mum and Dad and Mum

    Meet the girl with DNA from three people

  14. Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part Two

    The world needs new antibiotics: drug companies don’t want to make them. What next?

  15. Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part One

    Why our antibiotics are failing. Is this the end of modern medicine?

  16. Cosmology

    Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang?

  17. Rosetta Mission Arriving At Comet

    Orbiting and landing on a comet. The most daring science space mission ever?

  18. Professor Sir Michael Rutter

    Child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter influenced understanding of autism and behaviour

  19. What has Happened to El Nino?

    What is making this year’s predicted El Nino so hard to forecast?

  20. Swarming Robots

    Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots

  21. Anaesthesia

    How do general anaesthetics work in the body?

  22. Janet Hemingway

    Janet Hemingway on malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance with Jim al-Khalili

  23. Ageing and the Brain

    Do our mental powers really decline in old age?

  24. Driverless Cars

    The engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves

  25. Driverless Cars

    The future cars with sensors that can send messages to other cars, trucks and pedestrians

  26. Taming the Sun

    ITER, the world's effort to harness nuclear fusion, and the most complex experiment ever

  27. Beauty and the Brain

    Dr Tiffany Jenkins explores what neuroscience knows about art

  28. Alf Adams

    Alf Adams remembers his small idea that changed the world, with Jim Al-Khalili.

  29. Mark Miodownik

    Mark Miodownik talks nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials with Jim Al-Khalili.

  30. Sue Black

    Forensic scientist Sue Black on the clues she uses to identify human bodies

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