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Pain and its role
The role of acute pain in the human body. It is the body's way of telling us something is wrong and with sufficient force to make us attend to it. Until 40 years ago the role of pain was unknown, but the 'gate theory' proved to a breakthrough, as the programme finds out.
BBC World Service Archive
This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project
Space
The eclipses, spacecraft and astronauts changing our view of the Universe
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
A pair of scientific sleuths answer your perplexing questions. Ask them anything!
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Discovery
Explorations in the world of science.
