Discovery
Each week, Discovery takes an in-depth look at the most significant ideas, discoveries and trends in science, from the smallest microbe to the furthest corner of space.
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Discovery: The Age We Made 1/4
Humanity’s impact on the Earth is so profound that we’re ...
Humanity’s impact on the Earth is so profound that we’re creating a new geological time period. Geologists have named the age we’re making the Anthropocene. The changes we’re making to the atmosphere, oceans, landscape and living things will leap out...
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Discovery: End of Drug Discovery 2/2
Geoff Watts discovers how new medical drugs will be developed, ...
Geoff Watts discovers how new medical drugs will be developed, and the answer is collaboration between big pharma and academia....
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Discovery: End of Drug Discovery P1/2
Geoff Watts asks why the source of new medical drugs ...
Geoff Watts asks why the source of new medical drugs is drying up....
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Discovery: The Sound of Deafness
In this edition of Discovery, Dr Carinne Piekema explores the ...
In this edition of Discovery, Dr Carinne Piekema explores the science of sound and hearing, asking how close we are to a cure for deafness and demonstrating what being deaf might actually sound like....
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Discovery: Darwin's Tunes
Is our taste in music, and how it's changed over ...
Is our taste in music, and how it's changed over the centuries, governed by creative genius or simply by survival of the fittest sounds, chosen by us the consumer? Does Darwin's theory of natural selection apply to more than just life on the planet?...
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Discovery: Frankenstein's Moon
What can astronomy tells us about great literature? Forensic astronomer ...
What can astronomy tells us about great literature? Forensic astronomer Don Olson tells Andrew Luck-Baker about two of his investigative cases He explains how plotting the path of the moon in 1816 solved a controversy about Mary Shelley’s novel...
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OnePlanet: Scott's Legacy
One hundred years ago, the first humans reached the South ...
One hundred years ago, the first humans reached the South Pole of this planet. More than 40 years ago, man first walked on the moon. When will our species first set foot to explore the planet Mars? Kevin Fong seeks a likely launch date. He asks who...
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Discovery: Lloyd Peck
Jim Al-Khalili finds out about the life scientific of the ...
Jim Al-Khalili finds out about the life scientific of the Antarctic biologist, Lloyd Peck who studies whether the underwater animals can adapt to rising sea temperatures...
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OnePlanet: Scott's Legacy
100 years ago, Scott reached the South Pole. 50 years ...
100 years ago, Scott reached the South Pole. 50 years later, the first geologist briefly walked on the Moon. Kevin Fong asks if why we might want to return to the lunar surface and what will get us. He talks to that first lunar geologist of Apollo 17,...
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Discovery: Barbara Sahakian
Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian about her Life ...
Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian about her Life Scientific....
