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Programme exploring new ideas in science and meeting the scientists and researchers responsible for them, as well as hearing from their critics
"e-Therapy" has come a long way since the (slightly tongue in cheek) days of ELIZA, a very early attempt at computer based psychotherapy. EL...
Dr Hannah Fry investigates the hidden patterns behind terrorism and asks whether mathematics could be used to predict the next 9/11. When co...
Professor Adam Hart explores the newest area in the science of animal behaviour - the study of personality variation within species as diver...
Many people are living with chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel conditions in which the body attacks itself...
As our skies become more crowded Jack Stewart examines the long awaited modernisation of air traffic control. With traffic predicted to reac...
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to 67P/Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko reached its most dramatic moment on 12th November. BBC News c...
In March astronomers in the BICEP2 collaboration announced they had found gravitational waves from the Big Bang. But now the evidence is bei...
Adam Hart looks at how new developments in understanding insect behaviour, plant cell growth and sub cellular organisation are influencing r...
General anaesthetics which act to cause reversible loss of consciousness have been used clinically for over 150 years. Yet scientists are on...
Gaia Vince looks at the future of power transmission. As power generation becomes increasingly mixed and demand increases, what does the gri...
Geoff Watts investigates the latest thinking about our brain power in old age. He meets researchers who argue that society has overly negati...
Most traffic accidents are caused by human error. Engineers are designing vehicles with built in sensors that send messages to other cars, t...
Are you a lark or an owl? Are you at your best in the morning or the evening? Linda Geddes meets the scientists who are exploring the differ...
Geoengineering is a controversial approach to dealing with climate change. Gaia Vince explores putting chemicals in the stratosphere to stop...
3.5 billion people are alive today because of a single chemical process. The Haber-Bosch process takes Nitrogen from the air and makes ammon...
Quentin Cooper takes a look at the new materials that can mend themselves. Researchers are currently developing bacteria in concrete which,...
We like to think that we are in control of our lives, of what we do, think and feel. But, as Geoff Watts discovers, scientists are now revea...
What is it about the microbes in our guts that can have such an impact on our lives? The human gut has around 100 trillion bacterial cells f...
The hormone oxytocin is involved in mother and baby bonding and in creating trust. Linda Geddes finds out if taking oxytocin can help people...
Tracey Logan goes underground to find out how Crossrail is using the latest engineering techniques to create 26 miles of tunnels below Londo...
Earthquakes are feared for their destructive, deadly force. But they are part of a geological process, plate tectonics, that some scientists...
Whatever happened to biofuels? They were seen as the replacement for fossil fuels until it was realised they were being grown on land that s...
England's chief medical officer recently warned that within twenty years, the spread of antibiotic resistance may have returned us to an alm...
When President Obama recently complained, that although "we can identify galaxies light years away, study particles smaller than an atom ......
Many crimes are planned, executed and sometimes gloated over using mobile phones. And the move to digital means that recordings are cheap an...
A decade ago, the Human Genome Project revealed that only 1% of our DNA codes for the proteins that make our bodies. The rest of the genome,...
Can reading the mind allow us to use thought control to move artificial limbs? Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, is one of the world's leadin...
Humanity's impact on the Earth is so profound that we're creating a new geological time period. Geologists have named the age we're making t...
In the UK today, male life expectancy is 78 years old, whereas women will on average live four years longer. Evolutionary biologist Dr Yan W...
Finding the Higgs boson on July 4th was the last piece in physicists' Standard model of matter. But Tracey Logan discovers there's much more...