BBC World Service - Discovery

Spectrum - golden rice

Report on the development of gene-altered rice

Exploration into the work of organic chemists

Comparing the amount we know of the surface of the moon to the surface of our own planet

Disappointments following the promising development of gene therapy

Third programme in a series about human evolution

Part two of a series examining human evolution

Report on the beginnings of human evolution in Africa

Report on Savant Syndrome and the extraordinary mental abilities savants tend to have

Report on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)

The inventor of the contraceptive pill, the novelist and playwright Carl Djerassi