Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
Episodes to download
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The Evidence: Exploring the concept of solastalgia
Sat 8 Jul 2023
The feeling of pain or distress associated with environmental change close to your home
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Smelly people
Mon 3 Jul 2023
Prof Ben Garrod uses new tech to sniff things out, and explores extending our senses
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Sound solutions
Mon 26 Jun 2023
Prof Ben Garrod meets conservationists with sound solutions to protect animal habitats
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Seeing more
Mon 19 Jun 2023
The new technologies pushing the boundaries of what we can see, hear, smell, and feel
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Fungal pandemic threat
Mon 29 May 2023
Why invasive fungal infections are on the rise and a potential pandemic could be a threat
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Maggots in medicine
Mon 15 May 2023
The healthcare professionals who are turning to maggot therapy to help clean up wounds
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Lazy guide to exercise
Mon 8 May 2023
What is the least amount of exercise you can do to still stay healthy?
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The impossible number
Mon 1 May 2023
The Curious Cases team get to grips with the very real uses of imaginary numbers
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The mind-numbing medicine
Mon 24 Apr 2023
The Curious Cases team investigate the magical properties of anaesthetics.
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The resurrection quest
Mon 17 Apr 2023
The Curious Cases team ask if it's possible - or desirable - to bring back extinct species
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The puzzle of the pyramids
Mon 10 Apr 2023
The Curious Cases team discovers how Egypt's pyramids were really built.
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Our Microbes and Our Health
Sat 25 Mar 2023
The astonishing and mysterious world of the human microbiome.
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Judith Bunbury: Unearthing the secrets of Ancient Egypt
Mon 20 Mar 2023
Dr Judith Bunbury on enriching our knowledge of ancient Egypt and beyond
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The Life Scientific: Clifford Johnson
Mon 13 Mar 2023
New approaches to quantum questions and using science in films.
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The Life Scientific: Rebecca Kilner
Mon 6 Mar 2023
Jim al-Khalili hears how insects helped Rebecca Kilner solve evolutionary mysteries
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The Life Scientific: Tim Lamont
Mon 27 Feb 2023
Jim Al-Khalili meets Tim Lamont, a young ecologist making waves restoring coral reefs.
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Bad Blood: Newgenics
Mon 20 Feb 2023
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
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Bad Blood: The curse of Mendel
Mon 13 Feb 2023
How Gregor Mendel discovered the gene, an insight which inspired eugenics from the 1900s
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Bad Blood: Rassenhygiene
Mon 6 Feb 2023
The mass sterilisation of those deemed 鈥榰nfit鈥� by the Nazis in the name of eugenics
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Bad Blood: Birth controlled
Mon 30 Jan 2023
The women forcibly sterilised against their will and the campaign for birth control
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Bad Blood: You will not replace us
Mon 23 Jan 2023
The rise of the idea that immigrants will out-breed and replace the dominant white 'race'
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Bad Blood: You've got good genes
Mon 16 Jan 2023
The origins of Eugenics and the idea that we could breed ourselves to a brighter future
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Space
The eclipses, spacecraft and astronauts changing our view of the Universe
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
A pair of scientific sleuths answer your perplexing questions. Ask them anything!
