Discovery: Crucial role of Leptin in the body

Discovery: Crucial role of Leptin in the body

Leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells, failed to be ...

Leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells, failed to be a wonder solution to obesity 20 years ago. But now scientists believe it's critical to how the body works. Vivienne Parry investigates....

Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Vilayanur Ramachandran

Vilayanur Ramachandran has been called the Marco Polo of neuroscience. ...

Vilayanur Ramachandran has been called the Marco Polo of neuroscience. Join him in conversation with AC Grayling, as he demonstrates some of the simple experiments which reveal hidden truths about all of our brains....

Discovery: Antarctic subglacial lake exploration

One hundred years since humans first ventured to the South ...

One hundred years since humans first ventured to the South Pole, we are on the verge of a new era in Antarctic exploration. In Discovery Andrew Luck-Baker talks to scientists who’ll soon be entering the last untouched realms on the planet. They’re...

Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Sir Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Nurse is a Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist and ...

Sir Paul Nurse is a Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist and the new President of The Royal Society, the oldest science establishment in the world. Join him in conversation with AC Grayling, about the cell cycle, trying to cure cancer and his thoughts...

Discovery: Neutrinos 21 Nov 11

Roland Pease investigates whether scientists observed neutrinos travelling faster than ...

Roland Pease investigates whether scientists observed neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light, a result that could have enormous implications for physics and prove Einstein wrong....

Discovery: Robots that Care, programme 2 - 14 Nov 11

Jon Stewart examines the growing use of social robots...

Discovery: Robots that Care, programme 1 - 7 Nov 11

Jon Stewart examines how scientists are trying to bridge the ...

Jon Stewart examines how scientists are trying to bridge the gap between robots and humans....

Discovery: India's e-governance project 31 Oct 11

Angela Saini reports from India on the country’s vast e-governance ...

Angela Saini reports from India on the country’s vast e-governance project aimed at driving out corruption, reducing bureaucracy and getting the nation’s 1.2 billion people online....

Discovery: Tribes of Science 3 - 24 Oct 11

Discovery - Tribes of Science - Peter Curran meets the ...

Discovery - Tribes of Science - Peter Curran meets the volcanologists, holders of what one British magazine claimed was the second coolest job in the world after being an astronaut....

Discovery: Tribes of Science 2 - 17 Oct 11

Discovery – Tribes of Science - Peter Curran meets the ...

Discovery – Tribes of Science - Peter Curran meets the beam line scientists, the guides to the UK’s largest particle accelerator....