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Why do birds sing?
Does infinity exist?
Why do we get déjà vu?
Will we ever find alien life?
Why people have different pain thresholds
How do instruments make music?
A sense of time
Cat Hobaiter on communication in apes
Carlo Rovelli on rethinking the nature of time
Corinne Le Quéré on carbon and climate
Ken Gabriel on why your smartphone is smart
Donna Strickland and extremely powerful lasers
Unbottling the past
California burning
ShakeAlertLA - California’s earthquake early warning system
From the Cold War to the present day
From the Crimean War to the end of World War Two
Tracks across time
Trouble in paradise
Back from the Dead
Eye in the Sky
Kepler's Snowflake
Lucretius, Sheep and Atoms
Eddington's eclipse and Einstein's celebrity
Earthrise
The Supercalculators
The China Syndrome
How Much Plastic Can We Recycle?
Why We Fell In Love with Plastic
Finding the Coelacanths
The Big Bang and Jet Streams
Viagra and CRISPR
Tracking the First Animals on Earth
Mary Anning and Fossil Hunting
Cooling the City
Tourism and Transparency
Who To Believe?
The Long Hot Summer - Part Two
The Long Hot Summer
Sodium
Iron
Fluorine
Hypatia: The Murdered Mathematician
Descartes' "Daughter"
Making Natural Products in the Lab
The Real Cyrano de Bergerac
The Nun’s Salamander
The Aztec Salamander
Gateway to the Mind
Dirt and Development
Manipulating Our Hidden Half
Do Insects Feel Pain?
Killing Insects for Conservation
What’s the Tiniest Dinosaur?
Can Anything Travel Faster Than Light?
Why Do We Dream?
Can We Use Chemistry to Bake the Perfect Cake?
Why Do Some Songs Get Stuck in Your Head?
Behaving Better Online
The Cooperative Species
Bringing Schrodinger's Cat to Life
Barbara McLintock
D'Arcy Thompson
The Far Future
Why We Cut Men
Iodine
Phosphorus
Lead
The Power of Sloth
Pain of Torture
Controlling Pain
Knowing Pain
Seeing Pain
Humphry Davy
Lise Meitner
The Day the Earth Moved
Maria Merian
Alcuin of York
Cheating the Atmosphere
Better Brains
What would happen if you fell into a black hole?
What will happen when the Earth’s poles swap?
Why can’t we remember being a baby?
Why can’t we remember being a baby?
How do cats find their way home?
How much of my body is bacteria?
Sydney Brenner: A Revolutionary Biologist
SOS Snail
Indian Science – The Colonial Legacy
India's Ancient Science
Africa’s Great Green Wall
Internet of Things
Dark Side of the World Wide Web
The Origin of the Internet
Silicon - The World's Building Block
The Day the Sun Went Dark
Carbon - the backbone of life
And then there was Li
Oxygen: The breath of Life
Mercury - Chemistry's Jekyll and Hyde