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Brain surgery, in any form, to treat people with psychiatric illness was virtually abandoned after public outcry over the abuse of lobotomies half a century ago. But recent progress in neuroscience is...
This 30-minute programme Peter Evans investigates how science deals with new ideas and asks whether a conservative establishment is stifling creative research and science is merely a consensus of what the...
A series of 15-minute programmes exploring how our ideas about the end of the universe have been shaped by religion, belief, and the contemporary state of scientific thinking and observation. Presented by...
Gerry Northam delves into the politics that often underlie the science of climate change. In the UK, the government’s chief science adviser has called global warming a greater threat than international...
Claudia Hammond examines our fingers which provide often overlooked clues to our genetic inheritance, our cultural provenance and our psychological state. Each programme covers one digit - examining its...
In new series about Five Shapes, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy finds his favourite forms in some highly unlikely places. He visits a spherical building in Paris, hears music inspired by the symmetries of...
The three programmes in this series tell the stories of the small groups of research scientists whose inventions in the fields of communications and computing, transport, materials and medicine, changed the...
Environmentalism is often likened to religion. To its followers it has its indisputable truths, its holy books and its saints and prophets. In this series of three programmes Julian Pettifer examines the...
Dr Graham Easton presents the story of the stethoscope. Invented by a Frenchman named Lannaec in the early 19th century, the original design has barely altered. But digital technology is set to change all...
Medicine is not an exact science. Every day healthcare professionals are expected to make life and death decisions with only their expertise and experience to guide them. There is no comprehensive rule book...
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