BBC World Service - Discovery

Transit of Venus 2012

Marek Kukula explores the science behind the Transit of Venus 2012.

Physicist Tejinder Virdee on the search for the elusive Higgs boson at Cern.

Kevin Fong looks at the birth of plastic surgery and its links to the air battles of WWII.

Carinne Piekema explores the science of moral behaviour and the ethical issues this raises

Could health depend on what happens in the womb? Mark Porter reports on this new idea.

Why do we need to send people to explore Mars – and who is likely to take them there?

Can the heroic age of Antarctic exploration show the way back to the Moon?

Amundsen may have beaten Scott to the South Pole but science was the real winner.

Extended Special re-creating the Titanic Morse code conversation 100 years later.

Lynne Malcolm discusses what the future holds for the health of the human body.