BBC World Service - Discovery

Finding Your Voice

The impact of selective mutism, a condition often described as a phobia of speaking

The medical phenomenon of the nocebo effect, the fear that something is harmful

Can the world’s companies manufacture four times more stuff without gutting the planet?

What is swelling the world’s mountain of electrical and electronic waste?

Why understanding how we smell has led to a paralysed man walking again

Palaeontologist and naturalist Richard Fortey on the evoloution of the Earth

Jim Al-Khalili meets a world authority on Artificial Intelligence, Maggie Boden

Geoff Watts continues his exploration of the science and culture of gossip

Geoff Watts explores the origins and the science behind our love and loathing of gossip

Quentin Cooper looks at the therapeutic possibilities of Virtual Reality