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Editing the Genome

We have a powerful new tool to alter DNA. What medical uses should be off limits?

• 26 mins

Editing the Genome - Part Two

Should we try to wipe out mosquitoes? With CRISPR, it may now be possible.

• 26 mins

Feeding the World - Part One

Kathy Willis meets scientists seeking the genetic diversity to future-proof our crops

• 26 mins

Feeding the World - Part Two

How to future proof our crops above and below ground, to endure climate change

• 26 mins

African Einsteins

Will Einstein鈥檚 successors be African? It鈥檚 very likely - and some of them will be women

• 26 mins

The Horn Dilemma

Will the sale of harvested rhino horn help to stop poaching?

• 26 mins

Science Stories: Series 2 - Orgueil Meteorite

The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years.

• 26 mins

Science Stories: Series 2 - Margaret Cavendish

Aristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method

• 26 mins

Our Unnatural Selection

How humans are inadvertently driving the evolution of other species

• 26 mins

Benefits of Bilingualism - Part One

Gaia Vince explores the benefits of bilingualism for children

• 26 mins

Benefits of Bilingualism - Part Two

The benefits of bilingualism: keeping our minds healthy

• 26 mins

After Ebola

Rebuilding Sierra Leone鈥檚 healthcare system

• 26 mins

The Neglected Sense

Kathy Clugston is anosmic - she has no sense of smell and sets out to discover why

• 26 mins

Life on the East Asian Flyway

The world鈥檚 greatest migration - countless birds fly north from Australia to the Arctic

• 26 mins

Life on the East Asian Flyway 鈥� Part Two: Yellow Sea South

Hear the calls of the Chinese bird hunter turned conservationist

• 26 mins

Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part Three: Yellow Sea North

Can China鈥檚 birdwatchers and North Korea鈥檚 economy save migratory birds from extinction?

• 26 mins

Life on the East Asian Flyway - Part 4: The Arctic

New life, new dangers and new hopes for the endangered shorebirds on the tundra

• 26 mins

Cleaning Up the Oceans

Roland Pease asks what damage plastic waste is doing in the oceans

• 26 mins

The Business of Failure

Dr Kevin Fong explores the problems with the US air ambulance industry.

• 27 mins

鈥淔aster, Better, Cheaper鈥�

Kevin Fong explores the success and failure of NASA鈥檚 missions to Mars

• 26 mins

Going Lean: Health and the Toyota Way

Kevin Fong discovers how a car maker is helping to improve healthcare

• 26 mins

Failing Gracefully

Dr Kevin Fong explores the role technology plays in high-risk systems

• 26 mins

The Power of Cute

Lucy Cooke explores our seeming obsession with all things cute.

• 26 mins

China Science Rising

Rebecca Morelle reports on China's science ambitions.

• 26 mins

What makes gingers ginger?

Plus, what is the point of body hair?

• 26 mins

How do you make the perfect cup of tea?

Plus, why do we cry? Is there any useful purpose?

• 26 mins

Why do people shout on their cellphones?

And what causes traffic jams?

• 26 mins

Why do we faint?

And can animals count?

• 26 mins

Could we send our litter into space?

Plus, why is everything in space round?

• 26 mins

Reversing Parkinson's

Cell therapies for Parkinson鈥檚 disease

• 26 mins