Life story - the Cambrian period

A look at life in the Cambrian period, 500 million years ago

• 24 mins

Life Story - the Proterozoic era

A look at life in the pre-Cambrian era, more than half a billion years ago

• 24 mins

Life Story - flying dinosaurs

How dinosaurs learned to fly

• 24 mins

Living computers

Living computers - a combination of technology and living organic tissue

• 24 mins

Gene Pioneers - part three

Discussion on gene therapy with guest Dr Inda Vermer

• 24 mins

Gene Pioneers - part one

Explosive progress of molecular genetics and the human genome project

• 24 mins

Human genome project

The importance of the human genome project in modern genetics

• 24 mins

Technology - patently absurd?

The patent system is supposed to protect inventors and encourage innovation

• 24 mins

Can the information revolution save the world?

Could IT be the catalyst that helps propel developing economies and societies

• 23 mins

Warm World - burying greenhouse gases

Exploring the ways of storing greenhouse gases

• 23 mins

Warm World - climate change

Can geological sequestration save us from climate change?

• 24 mins

Warm World III - the future

What can be done in the future to offset the worst effects of climate change

• 23 mins

Dark matter

Why cosmologists are confused over the existence and influence of dark matter

• 24 mins

Shape Memory Alloys

Special report on the discovery and use of shape memory alloys

• 24 mins

The Living Universe

A look at the continuing evolution of the cosmos

• 24 mins

The Living Universe and the Big Bang

Exploration of the universe and the big bang theory

• 24 mins

The Living Universe and Cosmology

A history of cosmology, commentators include the physicist Paul Davies

• 24 mins

Metal Mickey comes of age

The programme looks at the debate over artificial intelligence, and what it is

• 24 mins

Machines like us

How the design of machines is being made more and more with safety in mind

• 23 mins

The Great Dinosaur Hunt - part one

The first in a three-part selected history of those who discovered the dinosaurs

• 24 mins

The Great Dinosaur Hunt - part two

The first in a three-part selected history of those who discovered the dinosaurs

• 24 mins

Machines like us?

Computers can now create and analyse images of the body, but can they be trusted?

• 23 mins

Econophysics

The science of finance, and how traders, dealers and brokers avoid losses

• 24 mins

Scarring

How our understanding of wound healing has been transformed

• 24 mins

Perfect Pitch

Perfect pitch and its implications in brain activity

• 24 mins

The New Alchemists - part one

Report on molecular science and the work of Italian scientist Vincenzo Balzani

• 24 mins

The New Alchemists - part two

The second of Roland Pease's explorations of the frontiers of chemistry

• 24 mins

The New Alchemists - part three

The third of Roland Pease's explorations of the frontiers of chemistry

• 24 mins

Alchemy that could save the planet

Chemistry designed to reduce ecological damage and global warming

• 24 mins

Black holes

The phenomenon of black holes explained

• 23 mins