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Pain - a necessary evil
Geoff Watts explores the science of pain. Pain is a problem for science, medicine, religion and philosophy. It is also a paradox, we hate it, but to survive it we need it.
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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.
