BBC World Service - Discovery

Good Vibrations

The scientific principles of stringed instruments

How studying animal behaviour could improve animal welfare

How gene therapy could be used to fight deadly forms of cancer

Why do we have to die, what can kill us and what happens to the body after death?

Imaging technology in brain surgery, and HERA, the electron-proton collider in Hamburg

Report from St Pancras Station in London as architects fight to save the building

Nobel Laureate Francis Crick with his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis

Dr Chris Stringer, Boxgrove Man, and the origins of Europeans

How new glass technology will create better lenses

The history of extracting chemical substances from natural sources - including poisons