Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
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Vagus Nerve
Mon 8 Dec 2014
Can stimulating the vagus nerve, which connects the brain with the organs improve health?
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Elspeth Garman
Mon 1 Dec 2014
Oxford crystallographer Elspeth Garman on the study of the internal structure of matter
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Chris Toumazou
Mon 17 Nov 2014
European Inventor of the Year, Chris Toumazou, on the science of invention
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Trauma: The Fight for Life
Mon 27 Oct 2014
How modern trauma medicine evolved from conflict and catastrophe to help save lives
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Urine Trouble: What’s in our Water
Mon 13 Oct 2014
What happens to the medicines we take after they leave our body?
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Patients Doing It for Themselves
Mon 6 Oct 2014
How patients are taking control of their own treatment and their own clinical trials
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Preventing Disease in Animals
Mon 29 Sep 2014
The pioneering genetic techniques to combat disease in our livestock
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Beyond the Abyss
Mon 22 Sep 2014
Exploring the ocean's deepest realm - the Hadal zone, 6,000 to 11,000 metres down
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Power Transmission
Mon 15 Sep 2014
Could super grids supplying DC electricity be the solution to rising demand for energy?
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Biosafety
Mon 8 Sep 2014
As mistakes involving deadly pathogens come to light, what lessons will be learnt?
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Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part Two
Mon 25 Aug 2014
The world needs new antibiotics: drug companies don’t want to make them. What next?
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Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Part One
Mon 18 Aug 2014
Why our antibiotics are failing. Is this the end of modern medicine?
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Rosetta Mission Arriving At Comet
Mon 4 Aug 2014
Orbiting and landing on a comet. The most daring science space mission ever?
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Professor Sir Michael Rutter
Mon 28 Jul 2014
Child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter influenced understanding of autism and behaviour
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What has Happened to El Nino?
Mon 21 Jul 2014
What is making this year’s predicted El Nino so hard to forecast?
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Swarming Robots
Mon 14 Jul 2014
Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots
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Janet Hemingway
Mon 30 Jun 2014
Janet Hemingway on malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance with Jim al-Khalili
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Driverless Cars
Mon 9 Jun 2014
The future cars with sensors that can send messages to other cars, trucks and pedestrians
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Taming the Sun
Mon 2 Jun 2014
ITER, the world's effort to harness nuclear fusion, and the most complex experiment ever
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Alf Adams
Mon 19 May 2014
Alf Adams remembers his small idea that changed the world, with Jim Al-Khalili.
Space
The eclipses, spacecraft and astronauts changing our view of the Universe
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
A pair of scientific sleuths answer your perplexing questions. Ask them anything!
