BBC World Service - Discovery

Shedding Light on the Brain

Biologists use light to explore the brain - and to alter it

Roland Pease explores Perovskite, the new material experts say will transform solar power

How the Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell paved the way for today's technology

Exploring the condition of stammering, widely misunderstood and occurs in all cultures

The director of the British Antarctic Survey, Jane Francis talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

A cognitive neuroscientist unlocks the mysteries of the teenage brain

The Rosetta comet mission and the man in charge of landing the robot Philae on comet 67P

Nobel Prize 2014 winner John O'Keefe on his work on spatial ability and basketball

Hong Kong psychologists test the effects of money from our generosity to agression

Does becoming rich make you less kind to those around you?