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Explorations in the world of science.
World Service,·1470 episodes
Report on a new centre for brain repair, which has just opened at Cambridge University
19 Jun 1995,·28 mins
Can human history be hidden in the genes?
12 Jun 1995,·28 mins
How nitric oxide, once considered poisonous, could be a future wonder drug
05 Jun 1995,·28 mins
A look at the causes of childhood leukaemia
24 May 1995,·28 mins
Research which suggests conodonts are the early meat-eating ancestors of vertebrate
22 May 1995,·28 mins
Scientists unveil a retina laser scanning opthalmoscope
15 May 1995,·28 mins
A new metal which could be cast itself into shape
03 May 1995,·28 mins
How a polio vaccine with an unlimited shelf life could help eradicate the disease for good
25 Apr 1995,·28 mins
How monkeys are helping us understand how humans evolved to talk
10 Apr 1995,·29 mins
How the melting ice sheets of Antartica may not be down to global warming
03 Apr 1995,·28 mins
Why symmetry in art and science is so appealing to us
22 Mar 1995,·28 mins
Are we overthinking the extinction of the dinosaurs?
20 Mar 1995,·27 mins
Understanding the 54 top quarks, the fundamental building blocks of life
13 Mar 1995,·27 mins
A proposal to build a laboratory on the seamounts of the Azores
The salvage of King Henry VIII's ship, the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545
06 Mar 1995,·27 mins
A radical new Aids treatment: Natural gas hydrates reserves
27 Feb 1995,·27 mins
New treatments for Aids, and Russian chemist Dr Vil Mirzayanov
20 Feb 1995,·29 mins
The continuing search for life in space
15 Feb 1995,·28 mins
Problems with Intel's new Pentium computer chip
06 Feb 1995,·27 mins
Evolution's long route out of the primordial swamp
30 Jan 1995,·27 mins
The growing trend for companies to invest in pure research
16 Jan 1995,·27 mins
How the genetic revolution is changing the plant world
09 Jan 1995,·27 mins
Why do some people enjoy parties more than others?
16 Dec 1994,·27 mins
Scientific headlines of the year including: Is the Universe Younger than its Stars?
08 Dec 1994,·26 mins
A special report on keyhole surgery
06 Dec 1994,·27 mins
Unravelling the workings of the human brain
05 Dec 1994,·27 mins
The world fight against Aids. Also, a new test for memory
28 Nov 1994,·27 mins
A special edition looking at the geology and astrology of Turkey
21 Nov 1994,·27 mins
How realistic is virtual reality? And when will the technology be publicly available?
10 Nov 1994,·27 mins
From the discovery of the electron in 1897 to Watson and Crick's structure of DNA in 1953
07 Nov 1994,·27 mins
