Guildhall Archaeological Dig

A Roman amphitheatre and Saxon remains are discovered in the heart of London

• 28 mins

Facial Attraction

What makes a face attractive?

• 27 mins

New Bush Babies

Four new species of bush babies are discovered in Africa - but could there be many more?

• 28 mins

Languages

How long ago did languages evolve?

• 27 mins

Designer Sperm

Could human sperm be genetically altered?

• 27 mins

Computer Musical Appreciation

Could a computer ever learn to appreciate Louis Armstrong?

• 27 mins

Top Quark

Have scientists in Chicago really found a dozen examples of "top quark"?

• 27 mins

Murder, Magic, and Medicine

The history of extracting chemical substances from natural sources - including poisons

• 27 mins

New Glass, Better Lenses

How new glass technology will create better lenses

• 27 mins

Boxgrove Man

Dr Chris Stringer, Boxgrove Man, and the origins of Europeans

• 27 mins

Francis Crick

Nobel Laureate Francis Crick with his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis

• 27 mins

St Pancras Station

Report from St Pancras Station in London as architects fight to save the building

• 27 mins

New Frontiers in Science

Imaging technology in brain surgery, and HERA, the electron-proton collider in Hamburg

• 27 mins

Death

Why do we have to die, what can kill us and what happens to the body after death?

• 27 mins

Gene Therapy

How gene therapy could be used to fight deadly forms of cancer

• 27 mins

Animal Behaviour

How studying animal behaviour could improve animal welfare

• 27 mins

Good Vibrations

The scientific principles of stringed instruments

• 27 mins

Reducing the Greenhouse Effect

Reducing the greenhouse effect, and computers that can learn to solve problems

• 27 mins

1000th Edition

Featuring transgenic sheep: particle physics: and Nobel laureate Professor George Porter

• 27 mins

Learning to Speak

How do children learn to speak, and why do some learn more slowly that others?

• 27 mins

Auditory Discrimination

How does auditory discrimination work?

• 27 mins

High Blood Pressure

How naturally produced endothelin-1 effects blood pressure

• 27 mins

Woods Hole

A special report from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts

• 28 mins

The 125th Anniversary of Nature Magazine

From the discovery of the electron in 1897 to Watson and Crick's structure of DNA in 1953

• 27 mins

Virtual Reality

How realistic is virtual reality? And when will the technology be publicly available?

• 27 mins

Turkey

A special edition looking at the geology and astrology of Turkey

• 27 mins

The Fight Against Aids

The world fight against Aids. Also, a new test for memory

• 27 mins

The Human Brain

Unravelling the workings of the human brain

• 27 mins

Keyhole Surgery

A special report on keyhole surgery

• 27 mins

Scientific News

Scientific headlines of the year including: Is the Universe Younger than its Stars?

• 26 mins