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Professor Saiful Islam on the materials that make renewable energy possible.

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Discovery
Professor Saiful Islam
Professor Saiful Islam on the materials that make renewable energy possible.
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Discovery
Richard Wiseman
How to spot a liar. Professor Richard Wiseman tells Jim Al-Khalili
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Discovery
The Evidence: Young people, lifting lockdowns, USA and Kenya updates
International experts take a look at the science surrounding Covid-19
49 mins
Discovery
Anne Magurran
Anne Magurran on how to measure biodiversity.
26 mins
Discovery
Desert locust swarms
A second wave of locusts threatens crops in East Africa. Scientists lead the fightback
26 mins
Discovery
The Evidence: Mental health and Covid 19
How is our mental health during the pandemic?
49 mins
Discovery
Ignaz Semmelweiss: The hand washer
Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story of Ignaz Semmelweiss, the hand washer
26 mins
Discovery
Science of Dad
Dr Oscar Duke discovers how pregnancy, birth and childcare affect the father
26 mins
Discovery
The Evidence: Covid 19: ending lockdowns
When and how to end lockdowns?
50 mins
Discovery
The Evidence: Covid 19: Sub-Saharan Africa and Testing
How sub-Saharan Africa is handling the pandemic and the different kinds of tests
49 mins
Discovery
In Their Element
Mercury - Chemistry's Jekyll and Hyde
The most beautiful and shimmering of the elements, the weirdest, and yet the most reviled
26 mins
Discovery
In Their Element
Oxygen: The breath of Life
Trevor Cox takes a deep breath and tells the story of oxygen on earth and in space
26 mins
Discovery
In Their Element
And then there was Li
The element that links the formation of the universe with the functioning of our brains
26 mins
Discovery
In Their Element
Carbon - the backbone of life
Why is all known life built on carbon?
26 mins
Discovery
In Their Element
Silicon - The World's Building Block
The key component of rocks, sand and materials from glass and concrete to microelectronics
26 mins
Discovery
In Their Element
Lead
The impact of the use and abuse of lead on humanity.
26 mins
Discovery
In Their Element
Phosphorus
How a discovery in boiled urine led to the trade union movement and chemical weapons.
26 mins
Discovery
In Their Element
Iodine
Why iodine is essential for our health?
26 mins
Discovery
In Their Element
Gold and silver
Science and art of gold and silver
26 mins
Discovery
In Their Element
Aluminium and strontium
Science and art of aluminium and strontium
26 mins
Discovery
In Their Element
Helium
Science and art of helium
26 mins
Discovery
The Evidence: Covid 19: Transmission and South America
How South America is handling the pandemic and a look at disease transmission.
49 mins
Discovery
The Evidence: Covid 19: vaccines and after lockdown
The latest on vaccines and how people are behaving after lockdown
48 mins
Discovery
Covid-19: Recovery
The latest on how people are recovering from Covid-19
50 mins
Discovery
The Origin of Stuff
Toothbrush
Katy Brand investigates the toothbrush from its humble start, as a stick, to the present.
26 mins
Discovery
The Origin of Stuff
High heel
Katy Brand tracks the extraordinary life of the high heel, from past to the present.
26 mins
Discovery
The Origin of Stuff
Fork
Katy Brand explores the life of the unsung hero of the cutlery world – the fork.
26 mins
Discovery
The Origin of Stuff
Wine glass
Katy Brand toasts the wine glass, learning why it became the gargantuan glass it is today
26 mins
Discovery
The Origin of Stuff
Toilet
Katy Brand reveals how attitudes to the toilet have shaped it's place in history.
26 mins
Discovery
The Origin of Stuff
Bed
Katy Brand reveals how our attitudes to sleep, sex and status are played out in the bed.
26 mins
Discovery
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall describes her life with the wild chimpanzees of Gombe.
26 mins
Discovery
Brian Greene
Brian Greene studies the universe at the largest and smallest scales imaginable.
26 mins
Discovery
Human Genome Project's 20th Anniversary
Twenty years of the Human Genome Project
26 mins
Discovery
On the menu
Adam Hart explores our relationship with some of the animal kingdom's deadliest predators
26 mins
Discovery
Frank Kelly
What difference has lockdown made to our air? Frank Kelly talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
26 mins
Discovery
Professor Emma Bunce
Emma Bunce tells Jim Al-Khalili why she is intrigued by the gas giants Jupiter and Neptune
26 mins
Discovery
Liz Seward
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Liz Seward, Senior Space Strategist for Airbus Defence and Space.
26 mins
Discovery
Return to Mars
How will NASA’s latest robot rover search for life on Mars?
26 mins
Discovery
The Evidence: Covid lessons for safe school reopening
Will schools and colleges reopening fuel Covid-19 spread?
50 mins
Discovery
Megadrought in Chile
Why Chile has a megadrought
26 mins
Discovery
The Evidence: Are national lockdowns evidence of policy failure?
Locked in the lockdown cycle – evidence for a more targeted response
51 mins
Discovery
Anatomy Of Touch
Touch hunger
Why we’re starved of touch
26 mins
Discovery
Anatomy Of Touch
Unwanted touch
How can we stop unwanted touch?
26 mins
Discovery
Anatomy Of Touch
Affectionate touch
How we experience gentle touch
26 mins
Discovery
Anatomy Of Touch
Digital touch
Can touch be replicated digitally?
26 mins
Discovery
Birds: singing for survival
Birds are changing their tunes
26 mins
Discovery
Broad spectrum
Helen Keen had a diagnosis of autism as an adult. She explores how it appears in women
26 mins
Discovery
The Evidence: Pandemic rules: follower or flouter?
Why a sense of “we” rather than “I” makes us more likely to follow pandemic rules
51 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
How do instruments make music?
1/6 Why do different musical instruments sound unique?
26 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Why people have different pain thresholds
2/6 Plus, how fast can a human run?
26 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Will we ever find alien life?
3/6 Where are we looking for alien life and what are the chances of finding it?
26 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Why do we get déjà vu?
4/6 Plus is anything really random?
26 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Does infinity exist?
Rutherford and Fry embark on a never-ending quest for infinite knowledge
26 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Why do birds sing?
6/6 And why does the human voice change as we age?
26 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
The growling stomach
Why do our tummies rumble - and when they do, does it always mean we are hungry?
26 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
The seeded cloud
Can we make it rain?
26 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
The sting in the tail
What’s the point of wasps?
26 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
The end of everything
When and how is the universe going to end?
26 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
The Zedonk Problem
What are ligons and tigers? What is a species?
26 mins
Discovery
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
The Space Burrito
Is there a point in space where the Sun could heat a burrito perfectly? And other puzzles
26 mins
Discovery
Steve Haake
Steve Haake talks to Jim al-Khalili about how technology improves sporting ability
26 mins
Discovery
Evolutionary biologist Alice Roberts
What can we learn from human remains? Alice Roberts talks bones with Jim Al Khalili
26 mins
Discovery
Hopes and fears for Covid-19 vaccines
Vaccines and virus mutations
50 mins
Discovery
Climate meltdown
Wildfires, floods, hurricanes made 2020 record breaking. What it says about climate change
37 mins
Discovery
Marine conservationist Heather Koldewey
Saving seahorses and turning old fishing nets into luxury carpets.
27 mins
Discovery
Astrophysicist Andy Fabian
Professor Andy Fabian on supermassive black holes and their dramatic hold over galaxies
27 mins
Discovery
Plant scientist Dale Sanders
Why the world needs more plant scientists. Prof Dale Sanders talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
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