Discovery

Drought is a massive problem for Chile. Jane Chambers has been living in the capital Santiago for more than ten years an... Read more

Can exercise help people living with Parkinson’s, a neurodegenerative condition, with symptoms such as loss of balance, ... Read more

Jim Al-Khalili finds out why Demis Hassabis wants to create artificial intelligence and use it to help humanity.Thinking... Read more

In summer of 2019 NICE approved the use of a completely new class of drugs: the gene silencers. These compounds are tran... Read more

You might think that sex is essential for life, but you'd be wrong!Lucy Cooke travels to the Hawaiian island of Oahu to ... Read more

Today I learnt that tigons and ligers are what you get when lions and tigers interbreed?!’ surprised listener Jamz G tel... Read more

Claudia Hammond explores unwanted touch and who we do and don’t mind touching us – and where. She draws on insights from... Read more

The year 2020 started with wildfires raging across parts of Australia, exceptional floods in East Africa, and a heatwave... Read more

4/6 Part 1: Déjà vu"Do we know what causes déjà vu?" asks Floyd Kitchen from Queenstown in New Zealand.Drs Rutherford an... Read more

Professor Dale Sanders has spent much of his life studying plants, seeking to understand why some thrive in a particular... Read more

We humans are a supremely social species, but the coronavirus pandemic has forced many of us into solitary confinement.I... Read more

Galileo famously insisted in the early 17th Century that the Earth goes round the Sun and not vice versa – an idea that ... Read more

"What’s the point of wasps?" asks listener Andrew, who is fed up with being pestered. For this series, with lockdown lea... Read more

It’s amazing what we can learn from a pile of old bones. Having worked as a paediatric surgeon for several years (often ... Read more

Matthew Cobb, Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester, explores the hidden world of prestige, profits and p... Read more

Philip Ball tells the story of Alexis Carrel, the French surgeon who worked to preserve life outside the body and create... Read more

The death last week of boxer Patrick Day, four days after he was stretchered out of the ring in a coma, is the latest re... Read more

Professor Deborah Bowman reveals how a diagnosis of cancer has transformed her view of medical ethics and what it means ... Read more