Synopsis
Science, culture and everything in between. Feel the heat. All species welcome.
Episodes
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![My Afghanistan escape - just a body, not a soul, or a heart (Part 2)]()
My Afghanistan escape - just a body, not a soul, or a heart (Part 2)
03/10/2021 Duration: 25minA life and death mission. An extraordinary relationship.
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![What happens when your students join the Taliban? Afghan scientists in hiding (Part 1)]()
What happens when your students join the Taliban? Afghan scientists in hiding (Part 1)
26/09/2021 Duration: 27minThey were pursuing their dreams, now they're running for their lives. Afghan scholars speak. Will the world listen?
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![Weve got cosmic vertigo!]()
We've got cosmic vertigo!
19/09/2021 Duration: 25minThis deadly pair of scientists are smashing ... barriers.
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![The art of more - did maths create civilisation?]()
The art of more - did maths create civilisation?
12/09/2021 Duration: 26minOne, two, three ... and then ... more. When humans learnt how to count to more, then came mayhem and marvels. Bestselling science writer Dr Michael Brooks on The Art of More.
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![The virus busters: how do you kill something thats not really alive?]()
The virus busters: how do you kill something that's not really alive?
05/09/2021 Duration: 25minRaymond Schinazi has been fighting viruses his whole career, with some mighty wins against these molecular mischief makers. Can we learn from the past to treat this coronavirus?
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![What if Picassos canvas was smaller than a human hair? (REPEAT)]()
What if Picasso's canvas was smaller than a human hair? (REPEAT)
29/08/2021 Duration: 25minTwo artists making the invisible visible. What does making nanoart reveal about us — gargantuans in a world of atoms? (REPEAT)
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![Science Week debate: You cant handle the (scientific) truth!]()
Science Week debate: You can't handle the (scientific) truth!
22/08/2021 Duration: 30minWho will win? Spin and hope or raw, sobering reality?
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![Hunting the ghosts of pandemics past]()
Hunting the ghosts of pandemics past
15/08/2021 Duration: 25minTwo baby teeth and a whole world of secrets. Meet the DNA detectives hunting for the ghosts of pandemics past.
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![When fish are kin: Max Liboirons anti-colonial science]()
When fish are kin: Max Liboiron's anti-colonial science
08/08/2021 Duration: 25minIn the windy, wet, wild world of the subarctic, science is done differently.
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![The long COVID doctors (Part 2 of 2)]()
The long COVID doctors (Part 2 of 2)
01/08/2021 Duration: 32minDon't mess with this virus. Extraordinary stories from the 3 UK doctors we first met a year ago, all living with 'long COVID'
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![The long COVID doctors (Part 1 of 2)]()
The long COVID doctors (Part 1 of 2)
25/07/2021 Duration: 35minThree UK doctors share their moving, eviscerating personal experiences of 'long COVID' [REPEAT]. And next episode, how are they nearly a year on as England opens up? [NEW]
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![The art and science of Deep Time travel]()
The art and science of Deep Time travel
18/07/2021 Duration: 25minDeep in the dirt are stories that need to be told ... by artists, scientists... and those damn (wonderful) ants.
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![Pain-free meat — is it possible?]()
Pain-free meat — is it possible?
11/07/2021 Duration: 25minOuch, that hurts. But who will listen? Down on the farm, understanding the biology of pain could make a real difference.
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![Medicine listen up! Birthing on country makes the land shake]()
Medicine listen up! Birthing on country makes the land shake
04/07/2021 Duration: 26minYolgnu women want to make the the land shake again. Why?
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![The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure]()
The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure
27/06/2021 Duration: 25minLace up your boots. Get down and dirty. We're hunting the impossible.
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![The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind]()
The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind
20/06/2021 Duration: 25minNature's rules are made to be broken. Paul Steinhardt just had to find a way.
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![14-day rule on human embryo research – why do scientists want it lifted?]()
14-day rule on human embryo research – why do scientists want it lifted?
13/06/2021 Duration: 25minResearch on human embryos has been very constrained. Will that change?
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![The wattle war]()
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![The wild woman of Brooklyn, the Peabody bones, and science of tree climbing! [REPEAT]]()
The wild woman of Brooklyn, the Peabody bones, and science of tree climbing! [REPEAT]
30/05/2021 Duration: 34minA skeleton with a back story that's almost too bizarre to believe. What would Suzy think? [REPEAT]
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![Lucys Story - the chimp, the poet, and the interspecies experiment that went weird [REPEAT]]()
Lucy's Story - the chimp, the poet, and the interspecies experiment that went weird [REPEAT]
23/05/2021 Duration: 32minPsychotherapist Maurice Temerlin called Lucy his "daughter"...but then things got weird. [REPEAT]
