Discovery Episodes Available now

Finding the sleep switch
Sleep and the mysteries of the master switching centre of the brain

Hope for an HIV vaccine
Why a live virus is probably our best hope for a vaccine against Aids

Science and a look ahead
What the year ahead might bring in science

This year's most essential science books
Experts help compile a list of science reading from texts published throughout 1995

Sir John Maddox
A report on the influence of Sir John Maddox, editor of the scientific journal Nature

Sprites in the sky
A report on the electrical phenomena known as sprites that appear during thunderstorms

Meteorites and the origin of life
Could meteorites explain the origin of life?

Space and the search for infrared
The launch of a European rocket from French Guiana

Scientists at MIT
Reporting from Cambridge, Massachusetts and talking to scientists who work there

Hope for an Aids vaccine
Report on a promising new clue towards a vaccine and even a treatment for Aids