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Frontiers
Programme exploring new ideas in science and meeting the scientists and researchers responsible for them, as well as hearing from their critics
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Listen to Frontiers, a Science & Medicine podcast by BBC. Stream 30 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 30 episodesCan Maths Combat Terrorism?
Dr Hannah Fry investigates the hidden patterns behind terrorism and asks whether mathematics could be used to predict the next 9/11. When co...
Animal Personality
Professor Adam Hart explores the newest area in the science of animal behaviour - the study of personality variation within species as diver...
Vagus Nerve
Many people are living with chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel conditions in which the body attacks itself...
New Space to Fly
As our skies become more crowded Jack Stewart examines the long awaited modernisation of air traffic control. With traffic predicted to reac...
The Rosetta Mission
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to 67P/Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko reached its most dramatic moment on 12th November. BBC News c...
Cosmology
In March astronomers in the BICEP2 collaboration announced they had found gravitational waves from the Big Bang. But now the evidence is bei...
Swarming robots
Adam Hart looks at how new developments in understanding insect behaviour, plant cell growth and sub cellular organisation are influencing r...
Anaesthesia
General anaesthetics which act to cause reversible loss of consciousness have been used clinically for over 150 years. Yet scientists are on...
Power Transmission
Gaia Vince looks at the future of power transmission. As power generation becomes increasingly mixed and demand increases, what does the gri...
Ageing and the brain
Geoff Watts investigates the latest thinking about our brain power in old age. He meets researchers who argue that society has overly negati...
Driverless cars
Most traffic accidents are caused by human error. Engineers are designing vehicles with built in sensors that send messages to other cars, t...
Chronotypes
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...
Geo-engineering
Geoengineering is a controversial approach to dealing with climate change. Gaia Vince explores putting chemicals in the stratosphere to stop...
Nitrogen Fixing
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...
Self-Healing Materials
Quentin Cooper takes a look at the new materials that can mend themselves. Researchers are currently developing bacteria in concrete which,...
The Power of the Unconscious
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...
Gut Microbiota
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...
Oxytocin
The hormone oxytocin is involved in mother and baby bonding and in creating trust. Linda Geddes finds out if taking oxytocin can help people...
Crossrail - Tunnelling under London
Tracey Logan goes underground to find out how Crossrail is using the latest engineering techniques to create 26 miles of tunnels below Londo...
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