Discovery Episodes Available now

Good Vibrations
The scientific principles of stringed instruments

Animal Behaviour
How studying animal behaviour could improve animal welfare

Gene Therapy
How gene therapy could be used to fight deadly forms of cancer

Death
Why do we have to die, what can kill us and what happens to the body after death?

New Frontiers in Science
Imaging technology in brain surgery, and HERA, the electron-proton collider in Hamburg

St Pancras Station
Report from St Pancras Station in London as architects fight to save the building

Francis Crick
Nobel Laureate Francis Crick with his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis

Boxgrove Man
Dr Chris Stringer, Boxgrove Man, and the origins of Europeans

New Glass, Better Lenses
How new glass technology will create better lenses

Murder, Magic, and Medicine
The history of extracting chemical substances from natural sources - including poisons