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Darwin's Tunes

Can you apply Darwin's theory of natural selection to music and create the perfect tune?

• 17 mins

The sound of deafness

The science of hearing; cochlear implants; the sound of deafness

• 17 mins

The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist

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

• 17 mins

End of Drug Discovery

The long and expensive struggle to get medicines to market

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End of Drug Discovery

Speeding up the drug development process to treat the major diseases facing us

• 17 mins

The Age We Made - Part 1

Is humanity launching a new geological age on the Earth?

• 17 mins

The Age We Made - Part 2

Are humans creating a new geological epoch through climate change and fossil fuels?

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The Age We Made - Part 3

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

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The Age We Made

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

• 17 mins

Hallucination 1/2

Understanding hallucination may provide new treatments for psychosis and schizophrenia

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Hallucination 2/2

Geoff Watts explores the science of hallucination.

• 17 mins

Last Man, First Scientist on the Moon

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

• 17 mins

Particle Physics

What are particle physicists doing after finding the Higgs boson?

• 17 mins

Piltdown Man

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

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Why do women outlive men

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

• 17 mins

The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist

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

• 17 mins

Jared Diamond

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

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John Gurdon

2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep

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The ENCODE Project

Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.

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Quantum Biology

What is quantum biology and why is it important?

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Sexual Nature 1/3

Frolicking fossils and suggestive theories - the evolutionary history of sex

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Sexual Nature 2/3

How did sex begin and why do some many species keep doing it?

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Sexual Nature 3/3

Life鈥檚 many paths to being female or male: in humans, komodo dragons and transexual fish

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What If... We could all become cyborgs?

Dr Andrew Holding meets some of the people straddling the line between man and machine.

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What If... We could stay young forever? 1/3

Peter Bowes explores how science and lifestyle could hold the promise to staying young.

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What If... We could stay young forever? 2/3

Peter Bowes asks if exercise and lifestyle changes hold the key to staying young.

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What If... We could stay young forever? 3/3

Peter Bowes concludes his exploration of the drive to live longer by looking at diet.

• 17 mins

Premiership Science

Like football, science is an international endeavour complete with its own stars.

• 26 mins

Obituary: Margaret Thatcher

An obituary of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

• 26 mins

Annette Karmiloff-Smith on toddlers and TV

Should babies under two watch TV? Jim talks to psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith.

• 26 mins