Discovery Episodes Episode guide
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The Evidence: How will the pandemic end?
Keeping a lid on risks of new covid variants as vaccinated countries ease restrictions
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The Evidence: How pandemics end
Is it premature to say the pandemic is over?
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The Evidence: How Covid damages the human body
Covid the chameleon - the multiple ways this virus attacks our bodies
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The Evidence: Healthcare pushed out by the pandemic
The killer diseases ignored because of Covid-19
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The Evidence: Exploring the concept of solastalgia
The feeling of pain or distress associated with environmental change close to your home
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The Evidence: Drug-resistant superbugs
The silent pandemic - drug resistant infections threaten the future of modern medicine
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The Evidence: Covid lessons for safe school reopening
Will schools and colleges reopening fuel Covid-19 spread?
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The Evidence: Covid 19: vaccines and after lockdown
The latest on vaccines and how people are behaving after lockdown
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The Evidence: Covid 19: Transmission and South America
How South America is handling the pandemic and a look at disease transmission.
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The Evidence: Covid 19: Sub-Saharan Africa and Testing
How sub-Saharan Africa is handling the pandemic and the different kinds of tests
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The Evidence: Covid 19: ending lockdowns
When and how to end lockdowns?
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The Evidence: Coronavirus Special
International experts take a global look at the science surrounding Covid-19.
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The Evidence: Are national lockdowns evidence of policy failure?
Locked in the lockdown cycle – evidence for a more targeted response
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The Evidence: Africa, the pandemic and healthcare independence
The new momentum for vaccines, medicines and tests to be made for Africa in Africa
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The elusive Beaked Whale
Looking for beaked whales, the most secretive and least studied of whales
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The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.
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The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.
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The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.
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The Business of Failure
Dr Kevin Fong explores the problems with the US air ambulance industry.
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Test-tube Tigers? Conservation in India
Test-tube tigers and cloned Asiatic cheetahs – the way forward for Indian conservation?
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Taking On Tobacco - Lung Cancer in Uruguay
Uruguay takes on Big Tobacco in crusade to save its citizens
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Taking On Tobacco - Lung Cancer in Uruguay
Uruguay takes on Big Tobacco in crusade to save its citizens
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Stem Cells – Turning skin cells into stem cells
Turning mouse skin cells into stem cells was a major breakthrough by Dr Yamanaka
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Stem Cells – The Start of a New Medical Era?
Is creation of human trachea from a patient's stem cells the start of a new medical era?
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Sound Architecture
Trevor Cox explores the idea of aural architecture architecture for your ears, hearing how some spaces 'speak'.
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Sniffing Out Crime
How sniffer dogs are trained to fight crime by tracking and searching out chemicals
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Screening and Treating Cervical Cancer in Tanzania
Anu Anand on how vinegar and a head torch are used to tackle cervical cancer in Tanzania
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Science Stories - Sophia Jex-Blake
Naomi Alderman tells the story of Sophia Jex-Blake, first woman doctor in Scotland