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

Pain and its role

The role of acute pain in the human body

• 24 mins

Pain - a necessary evil

Geoff Watts explores the science of pain

• 24 mins

The First Explorers - Australia

The prehistoric migration of humans, the first explorers on Earth

• 24 mins

The First Explorers - Europe

Archaeologists are now turning to our genes to investigate the history of our species

• 24 mins

The First Explorers - America and Asia

The first explorers who entered the American continent toward the end of the last Ice Age

• 24 mins

Angiogenesis

Report on new medical treatment angiogenesis

• 24 mins

Where to put nuclear waste

What is to be done with large amount of dangerous civilian nuclear waste around the world?

• 23 mins

Where to put nuclear waste - part two

The issue of nuclear waste which can remain dangerous for millions of years

• 23 mins