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

Dark Energy

Dark energy,a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space

• 23 mins

HIV and Aids in Africa

The massive problem of HIV infection in Africa

• 24 mins

Electric cars and the car of the future

A report on electric cars, could they help solve the energy crisis?

• 22 mins

The train of the future

Special report on new train technology and the train's evolution

• 23 mins

The future of air travel

Today's aeronautical engineers attempt to define the next era of flight after Concorde

• 24 mins

Post-Soviet science - USSR

A look at what has happened to scientific research in the former Soviet Union

• 23 mins

Post-Soviet Science - Germany

How the reunification of East and West Germany affected scientific research

• 24 mins

Post Soviet Science - Vietnam

What the future holds for science in Vietnam after the end of the war in 1975

• 24 mins

Post Soviet Science - Cuba

What does the future hold in store for Cuban biotechnology and scientific research?

• 23 mins