Origins of Childhood

Andrew Luck-Baker asks why humans, unlike other primates, have such a long childhood.

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Stem Cells

Sue Broom catches up on progress in stem cell research.

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Synthetic Biology

Richard Hollingham investigates the questions raised by synthetic biology.

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The Placenta

Sue Broom visits the UK's first specialist placenta clinic in Manchester.

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Dark Matter

Sue Nelson joins scientists down a mine on their search for the elusive dark matter.

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Population Growth and Global Warming

Geoff Watts explores the relationship between global warming and a changing population.

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GM Crops

Is now the time right for Europe to allow widespread cultivation of GM crops?

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DNA Analysis of Asylum Seekers

Gerry Northam explores proposals to check asylum seekers' credentials using DNA analysis.

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Earthquakes in Southeast Asia

Roland Pease reports on the continuing threat of earthquakes in southeast Asia.

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Acts of Creation

What will it mean to us once scientists are eventually able to recreate life from scratch?

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Carbon Detectives

Richard Hollingham meets the scientists trying to track our carbon emissions.

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Future Vaccines

Geoff Watts looks past failures and future hopes for vaccine development.

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Hydrogen for Transport

Gareth Mitchell asks what happened to hydrogen cars.

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Muscle Wastage

Vivienne Parry reports on new research into tackling muscle wastage.

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Graphene - the new wonder material

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

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Cancer Treatment

Is a new personalised drug for skin cancer set to revolutionise cancer medicine?

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After the Volcano

Tracey Logan asks if scientists are ready for the next Icelandic volcanic eruption.

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Nanoparticles

Richard Hollingham asks if legislation to control nanoparticles is adequate.

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Artificial Meat

Would you eat artificial meat, grown in the lab? Geoff Watts investigates.

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The end of Moore's Law?

Is it the end of the road for the computer revolution? Roland Pease investigates.

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Epigenetics

Do our children inherit the impact of our life experiences as well as our genes?

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Climate Change 30 Years On

Peter Evans asks why it has taken so long for climate change to be generally recognised.

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Brain Scanning

Peter Evans investigates recent advances in brain scanning technology.

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Superconductors

Peter Evans asks if high-temperature superconductors are delivering what was expected.

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Carl Linnaeus

Peter Evans pays tribute to Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy, born 300 years ago.

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Ageing

Peter Evans on how the study of the ageing process has opened up a new field of medicine.

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The Gamma Ray Skies

What causes the cosmic explosions of gamma rays observed by scientists?

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Human microbes

In a new series, Geoff Watts investigates the bacteria flourishing on our bodies.

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08/06/2011

Sue Broom meets the scientists using GM technology to control animal disease.

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15/06/2011

Roland Pease reports from Japan on the lessons learnt from the recent tsunami.

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22/06/2011

What's wrong with earthquake science? Roland Pease investigates.

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29/06/2011

How a meteorite that landed on Earth 100 years ago is helping astronomers explore Mars.

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Ageing and Telomeres

Is there a test for how long you will live? Controversies in cutting edge ageing research.

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02/11/2011

Did CERN scientists really break the universal speed limit? Roland Pease investigates.

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09/11/2011

Exploring Antarctica's subglacial lakes for new lifeforms and future sea level rise clues.

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16/11/2011

Vivienne Parry explores the crucial role the hormone leptin plays in the body.

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23/11/2011

Antivirals. Kevin Fong looks at new techniques to cure all viral infections.

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30/11/2011

Geoff Watts explores the origins of depression and efforts to find new treatments.

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07/12/2011

Gareth Mitchell ask how near we are to achieving hypersonic flight.

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Transit of Venus

Marek Kukula explores the forthcoming transit of Venus across the face of the Sun.

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Engineering Flu

Genetically engineered bird flu - lessons for pandemic preparations. Kevin Fong reports.

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Artificial Photosynthesis

Andrea Sella on the race to find a cheap inorganic way to mimic nature's green stuff.

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20/06/2012

Geoff Watts explores new techniques in gene therapy for cystic fibrosis.

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27/06/2012

Creating Blood: Vivienne Parry meets scientists hoping to create artificial blood.

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04/07/2012

Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who will transform the way we fly around the world.

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Future of Particle Physics

Tracey Logan asks what particle physicists are doing after finding the Higgs boson.

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Why do women live longer than men?

Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing.

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Anthropocene

Has humanity launched a new geological time period? Gaia Vince on the Anthropocene Epoch.

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Brain Machine Interfaces

Geoff Watts looks into how scientists can use the mind to control artificial limbs.

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05/12/2012

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

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Forensic Phonetics

Rebecca Morelle explores how the forensic science of speech is helping to solve crime.

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Build Me a Brain

Roland Pease reports on scientists building brains from scratch in the lab.

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19/06/2013

Can we beat bacteria by stopping the bugs from talking to each other?

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Whatever happened to biofuels?

Gaia Vince asks if we can ever run our vehicles on biofuels from algae or bacteria.

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Plate Tectonics and Life

Roland Pease on the idea that life on early Earth led to the evolution of plate tectonics.

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Crossrail - Tunnelling under London

How 26 miles of precision-engineered tunnels are created through London's erratic geology.

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Oxytocin

Linda Geddes asks if taking the hormone oxytocin can make people more sociable.

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Gut Microbiota

New insights into the important relationship we have with microbes that live in our gut.

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The Power of the Unconscious

The crucial role of our unconscious, and how scientists are now harnessing its powers.

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Self-Healing Materials

Quentin Cooper takes a look at the new materials that can mend themselves.

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Nitrogen Fixing

Prof Andrea Sella looks at efforts to reduce our dependence on the Haber-Bosch process.

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Geo-engineering

Gaia Vince asks if geoengineering by blocking the sun could stop the earth warming up.

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Chronotypes

Linda Geddes explores research into the differences between morning and evening people.

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Driverless cars

Jack Stewart meets the engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves.

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Ageing and the brain

Do our mental powers really decline in old age?

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Power Transmission

Gaia Vince looks at the future of power transmission.

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Anaesthesia

Linda Geddes explores the latest research into how general anaesthetics work in the body.

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Swarming robots

Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots.

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Cosmology

Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang as announced in March?

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The Rosetta Mission

Billed as 'the sexiest space mission ever', did Rosetta's probe land safely on its comet?

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Vagus Nerve

Can stimulating the vagus nerve improve health? Gaia Vince explores this new research area

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New Space to Fly

Jack Stewart meets the pioneers redesigning our international airspace.

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Animal Personality

Prof Adam Hart explores a new field in zoology - animal personality.

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Can Maths Combat Terrorism?

Can maths reveal hidden patterns in global terrorism? Dr Hannah Fry investigates.

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Virtual Therapy

Quentin Cooper looks at the therapeutic possibilites of virtual reality.

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