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Discovery: Muscle Wastage 08 Sep 10

Vivienne Parry hears how new research into the science of muscles is giving new hope to the many thousands of people who suffer from muscle wasting due to illness or ageing.

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Discovery: Graphene 15 Sep 10

Roland Pease reports on a new form of carbon that looks set to transform technology.

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Discovery: The Alien Equation 22 Sep 10

The Alien Equation. Kevin Fong celebrates the 50th anniversary of an equation that has reached iconic status. The Drake Equation seeks to answer one of the most profound questions in science: are we...

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Discovery: The Feynman Variations 29 Sep 2010

Brian Cox presents an archive tribute to Richard P Feynman. Widely regarded as the finest physicist of his generation and the most influential since Einstein. With contributions from friends,...

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Discovery: The Vaccine Detectives - Part One

This two-part documentary takes us inside the world's most remarkable health surveillance unit, in the impoverished West African country of Guinea Bissau, where a team of Danish and African medical...

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Discovery: The Vaccine Detectives Part Two

According to research by Dr Peter Aaby vaccines and vitamin supplements can have long term unintended consequences - some good and some bad - on the immune system of young children. In the most...

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Discovery: The Heart Has its Reasons

Does the head really rule the heart as modern science would have us believe, or does this organ play a far greater role in our emotional responses? For Discovery, Tim Healey makes a personal...

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Exchanges at the Frontier Oct 27 2010

Do you want to double your life span, and stay young for longer too? Cynthia Kenyon’s genetic research has uncovered a latent ability for animals to live much longer than they do. In the first of this...

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Discovery: Exchanges at the Frontier 3 Nov 2010

Why does Malaria have such an appalling impact on Sub Saharan Africa? Leading Epidemiologist discusses the social, economic and medical aspects of the disease with A.C.Grayling and an audience of the...

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Discovery: Exchanges at the Frontier 10 Nov 10

Can you unite the forces of nature in one theory? Is there a way to make gravity compatible with the Quantum world? A. C. Grayling and an audience at Wellcome Collection talk to Brian Green about...

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Discovery: Exchanges at the frontier 17 Nov 2010

How do we treat extreme violence that seems to have no rationale? A.C.Grayling speaks to Forensic Psychiatrist Gwen Adshead with an audience of the public at Broadmoor High Security Psychiatric Hospital.

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Discovery: Exchanges at the Frontier Ep 5 24 Nov 10

What is the secret of pleasure? And why do some people seem to experience more of it than others? A.C.Grayling talks to Morten Kringelbach, a neuroscientist who is exploring how the brain processes...

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Climate Connection: Consumption on the couch

As world leaders gather in Cancun for the latest UN climate negotiations, the Climate Connection series asks a key question in the story of action on climate change: what's stopping us? In part three...

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Discovery: Science and Libel 08 Dec 10

The blogger and the author of Bad Science, Dr Ben Goldacre, himself a defendant in a lengthy and costly legal case, explores the battle to keep libel out of science and what it might mean for us and...

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Discovery: Nanotechnology [1] 15 Dec 10

In the first of two programmes about nanotechnology, Richard Hollingham investigates how a better understanding of the properties of nanoparticles is helping researchers develop novel medical...

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Discovery: Nanotechnology [2] 22 Dec 10

In the second of two programmes about nanotechnology, Richard Hollingham concentrates on the environmental uses for nanotechnology, especially water and energy generation. Professor Eugene Cloete from...

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Discovery: Musical Instruments [1] 29 Dec 10

Trevor Cox examines how the human voice makes sound.

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Discovery: Musical Instruments [2] 5 Jan 11

Trevor Cox examines the science of wind instruments.

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Discovery: Musical Instruments [3] 12 Jan 11

Trevor Cox explores how percussion and string instruments make their own particular sounds

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Discovery: Thin Air [1] 19 Jan 11

We not only live in the air, we live because of it. And air is about much more than just breathing. It is a transformer and a protector, though ultimately also a poison. Gabrielle Walker experiences...

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