BBC World Service - Discovery

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea

Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.

Why do women live longer than men? Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing

Piltdown Man – could such a shocking case of scientific fraud happen again?

What are particle physicists doing after finding the Higgs boson?

An interview with the only geologist to explore the moon's surface, Harrison Schmitt

Geoff Watts explores the science of hallucination.

Understanding hallucination may provide new treatments for psychosis and schizophrenia

How might cities, mobile phones and humans become fossilised in years to come?

Are humans launching a new geological epoch through species extinction and farming?