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Science Stories: Series 2 - Margaret Cavendish

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

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Our Unnatural Selection

How humans are inadvertently driving the evolution of other species

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Benefits of Bilingualism - Part One

Gaia Vince explores the benefits of bilingualism for children

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Benefits of Bilingualism - Part Two

The benefits of bilingualism: keeping our minds healthy

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After Ebola

Rebuilding Sierra Leone鈥檚 healthcare system

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The Neglected Sense

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

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Life on the East Asian Flyway

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

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

Hear the calls of the Chinese bird hunter turned conservationist

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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?

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

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

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Cleaning Up the Oceans

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

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The Business of Failure

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

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鈥淔aster, Better, Cheaper鈥�

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

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Going Lean: Health and the Toyota Way

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

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Failing Gracefully

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

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The Power of Cute

Lucy Cooke explores our seeming obsession with all things cute.

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China Science Rising

Rebecca Morelle reports on China's science ambitions.

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What makes gingers ginger?

Plus, what is the point of body hair?

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How do you make the perfect cup of tea?

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

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Why do people shout on their cellphones?

And what causes traffic jams?

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Why do we faint?

And can animals count?

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Could we send our litter into space?

Plus, why is everything in space round?

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Reversing Parkinson's

Cell therapies for Parkinson鈥檚 disease

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The Whale Menopause

What do killer whales tell us about the human menopause?

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Black Holes: A Tale of Cosmic Death and Rebirth

LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and the new astronomy of nature鈥檚 ultimate state of matter

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Creating the Crick

Creating the Francis Crick Institute

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The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic

Peter Gibbs explores Ascension Island, a barren Atlantic rock made fertile by man

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The Sun King of China

Meet the undisputed leader of China's booming solar industry

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The City that Fell into the Earth

How do you move a city? Lesley Riddoch travels to Arctic Sweden to find out

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The Inflamed Mind

Can your immune system make you psychotic or depressed?

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