Frontiers explores new ideas in science and meets the people behind them. There are two six-part series of Frontiers a year, in summer and winter. The programme is half an hour long.
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Wed, 12 Dec 12
Duration:
28 mins
Rebecca Morelle looks at some of the new research in this growing area of forensics, including the credibility of ear witness accounts and whether it's possible to distinguish hoax 999 calls from genuine ones.
Thu, 6 Dec 12
Duration:
29 mins
A decade ago, the Human Genome Project revealed that only 1% of our DNA codes for the proteins that make our bodies. The rest of the genome, it was said, was junk, in other words with no function. But in September another massive international project, called ENCODE, announced that the junk DNA is useful after all. Adam Rutherford reports on the significance of this major discovery.
Wed, 28 Nov 12
Duration:
29 mins
Can reading the mind allow us to use thought control to move artificial limbs?Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis aims is to build a suit that a quadriplegic person can wear and control to kick a football at the opening of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Geoff Watts visits Nicolelis' laboratory to see just how near we are to achieving his aim on the football pitch.
Wed, 21 Nov 12
Duration:
29 mins
Gaia Vince explores the idea that humans have begun a new phase in our planet’s history,that our global influence on the Earth has launched a new geological period, which scientists are now calling the Anthropocene.
Wed, 14 Nov 12
Duration:
29 mins
In the UK today, male life expectancy is 78 years old, whereas women will on average live four years longer. Evolutionary biologist Dr Yan Wong looks at the latest evidence suggesting that where ageing is concerned, men seem to be at a genetic disadvantage. From research on ancient Korean eunuchs to laboratory fruit flies, new studies seek the answer to why males across the animal kingdom live faster and die younger. So, is the gender gap here to stay
Wed, 7 Nov 12
Duration:
29 mins
Finding the Higgs boson on July 4th was the last piece in physicists' Standard model of matter. But Tracey Logan discovers there's much more for them to find out at the Large Hadron Collider. To start with there is a lot of work to establish what kind of Higgs boson it is.
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