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Explorations in the world of science.
World Service,·1470 episodes
How might the Earth protect itself against an asteroid strike?
01 Jan 2002,·24 mins
A look at the story behind Guglielmo Marconi's success and his continuing legacy
28 Dec 2001,·24 mins
What does the future hold in store for Cuban biotechnology and scientific research?
27 Dec 2001,·23 mins
What the future holds for science in Vietnam after the end of the war in 1975
13 Dec 2001,·24 mins
How the reunification of East and West Germany affected scientific research
06 Dec 2001,·24 mins
A look at what has happened to scientific research in the former Soviet Union
29 Nov 2001,·23 mins
Today's aeronautical engineers attempt to define the next era of flight after Concorde
21 Nov 2001,·24 mins
Special report on new train technology and the train's evolution
15 Nov 2001,·23 mins
A report on electric cars, could they help solve the energy crisis?
08 Nov 2001,·22 mins
The massive problem of HIV infection in Africa
31 Oct 2001,·24 mins
Dark energy,a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space
19 Oct 2001,·23 mins
The issue of nuclear waste which can remain dangerous for millions of years
09 Oct 2001,·23 mins
What is to be done with large amount of dangerous civilian nuclear waste around the world?
04 Oct 2001,·23 mins
Report on new medical treatment angiogenesis
27 Sep 2001,·24 mins
The first explorers who entered the American continent toward the end of the last Ice Age
21 Sep 2001,·24 mins
Archaeologists are now turning to our genes to investigate the history of our species
13 Sep 2001,·24 mins
The prehistoric migration of humans, the first explorers on Earth
23 Aug 2001,·24 mins
Geoff Watts explores the science of pain
15 Aug 2001,·24 mins
The role of acute pain in the human body
The phenomenon of black holes explained
10 Aug 2001,·23 mins
Chemistry designed to reduce ecological damage and global warming
08 Aug 2001,·24 mins
The third of Roland Pease's explorations of the frontiers of chemistry
06 Aug 2001,·24 mins
The second of Roland Pease's explorations of the frontiers of chemistry
18 Jul 2001,·24 mins
Report on molecular science and the work of Italian scientist Vincenzo Balzani
11 Jul 2001,·24 mins
Perfect pitch and its implications in brain activity
06 Jun 2001,·24 mins
How our understanding of wound healing has been transformed
The science of finance, and how traders, dealers and brokers avoid losses
31 May 2001,·24 mins
Computers can now create and analyse images of the body, but can they be trusted?
24 May 2001,·23 mins
The first in a three-part selected history of those who discovered the dinosaurs
17 May 2001,·24 mins
