BBC World Service - Discovery

Judith Bunbury: Unearthing the secrets of Ancient Egypt

Dr Judith Bunbury on enriching our knowledge of ancient Egypt and beyond

New approaches to quantum questions and using science in films.

Jim al-Khalili hears how insects helped Rebecca Kilner solve evolutionary mysteries

Jim Al-Khalili meets Tim Lamont, a young ecologist making waves restoring coral reefs.

Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?

How Gregor Mendel discovered the gene, an insight which inspired eugenics from the 1900s

The mass sterilisation of those deemed ‘unfit’ by the Nazis in the name of eugenics

The women forcibly sterilised against their will and the campaign for birth control

The rise of the idea that immigrants will out-breed and replace the dominant white 'race'

The origins of Eugenics and the idea that we could breed ourselves to a brighter future