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China's Organ Transplants

Tourism and Transparency

Matthew Hill explores the Chinese approach to organ transplantation.

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Cooling the City

How can we adapt and prepare our cities for extreme weather conditions?

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Tracking the First Animals on Earth

In search of the first animals on the Earth, more than half a billion years ago

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The Genius of Accidents

Viagra and CRISPR

Viagra was first developed to treat heart disease, but it had some surprising side-effects

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The Genius of Accidents

The Big Bang and Jet Streams

Evidence for the big bang was initially thought to be a mistake in the data

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The Genius of Accidents

Finding the Coelacanths

A huge, four-limbed fish, was discovered 65 million years after its supposed extinction

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Plastic Fantastic

Why We Fell In Love with Plastic

Professor Mark Miodownik explores our love/hate relationship with plastic.

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Plastic Fantastic

How Much Plastic Can We Recycle?

Professor Mark Miodownik explores our love/hate relationship with plastic.

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Plastic Fantastic

The China Syndrome

China's ban on importing other countries' waste plastic is having a big impact

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The Supercalculators

Alex Bellos meets the supercalculators taking part in the Mental Calculation World Cup.

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Earthrise

The story of one of the most iconic photos of the last 50 years

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Eddington's eclipse and Einstein's celebrity

Philip Ball tells the story of Arthur Eddington's confirmation of general relativity

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Science Stories: Series 7

Lucretius, Sheep and Atoms

Two thousand years ago Lucretius composed about atoms and the natural world

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Science Stories: Series 7

Kepler's Snowflake

Philip Ball tells the story of Johannes Kepler and the six cornered snowflake.

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Science Stories: Series 7

Ibn al-Haytham: The Father of Modern Optics

The Arabic scholar who showed how light and the human eye produce our sense of vision

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The Chase

Eye in the Sky

SOFIA is a flying observatory setting out to study Titan, Saturn鈥檚 biggest moon

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The Chase

Back from the Dead

The hunt for the Night Parrot: a fat, dumpy, green parrot that lives in the desert

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The Chase

Trouble in paradise

How scientists are trying to eradicate rats and mosquitoes threatening French Polynesia

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The Chase

Tracks across time

Scientists race to save a set of 95-million-year-old footprints

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Chemists' Dirty Secrets

From the Crimean War to the end of World War Two

Andrea Sella looks at the role chemists have played in the development of weapons

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Chemists' Dirty Secrets

From the Cold War to the present day

The role chemists have played in the development of chemical weapons

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ShakeAlertLA - California鈥檚 earthquake early warning system

The mobile app that will warn southern Californians if an earthquake is heading their way

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California burning

Roland Pease investigates the growing fire hazard in California

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Unbottling the past

The discovery and recreation of an iconic perfume formula for Soir de Paris

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Donna Strickland and extremely powerful lasers

Donna Strickland on inventing extremely powerful lasers and winning a Nobel Prize

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Ken Gabriel on why your smartphone is smart

Ken Gabriel on inventing micro devices found in smartphones

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Corinne Le Qu茅r茅 on carbon and climate

Corinne Le Qu茅r茅 on carbon and the global climate

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Carlo Rovelli on rethinking the nature of time

Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli on why time is not what it seems

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Cat Hobaiter on communication in apes

Jim al-Khalili talks chimp gestures with Dr Cat Hobaiter

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A sense of time

Does a second feel the same for a fly, a bird, or a swordfish, as it does for me?

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