BBC World Service - Discovery

Mum and Dad and Mum

Meet the girl with DNA from three people

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

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

Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang?

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

Child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter influenced understanding of autism and behaviour

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

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

How do general anaesthetics work in the body?

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