Discovery

Vivienne Parry explores how patients are taking control of their own treatment.

BBC science reporter Melissa Hogenboom hears about pioneering genetic techniques to combat diseases in our livestock animals.

Rebecca Morelle talks to explorers of deep ocean trenches – the final frontier of exploration on Planet Earth. She meets biologists who have discovered dark realms of pink gelatinous fish and gigantic crustaceans at 8,000 metres down

Gaia Vince looks at the future of power transmission

Mistakes involving anthrax, deadly flu and smallpox have put high-security lab safety under the spotlight, and increased calls to limit potentially risky research

Rebecca Morelle examines how children could be born with DNA from three people. The UK might be the first country in the world to make this legal.

A global antibiotic resistance crisis looms but antibiotics drugs don’t make pharma the profits which other medicines do. Roland Pease looks for ways to avert a medical dark age.

Our antibiotics are failing. Bacteria are developing resistance to an increasing number of the drugs that used to kill them. How bleak is the future for global health? Roland Pease looks at scientific issues behind the gathering crisis. The last new class of antibiotics was discovered in the 1980s. Are there any others in the pipeline?

In March astronomers in the BICEP2 collaboration announced they had found gravitational waves from the Big Bang. But now the evidence is being questioned. Dr Lucie Green reports.

Looking ahead to the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission – the first spacecraft to follow a comet and land a probe on its icy surface. Rosetta arrives at comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6th August. It will then accompany the 4 km chunk of ice and dust close by for more than a year. In November, the craft will a drop a lander to analyse the comet’s make-up and photograph the icescape. Andrew Luck-Baker talks about the mission’s daring orbital manoeuvres and the big scientific questions the mission is designed to answer.

Jim Al-Khalili meets child psychiatrist Professor Sir Michael Rutter

Roland Pease asks what's making this year's predicted El Nino so hard to forecast

Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots

Linda Geddes explores the latest research into how general anaesthetics work in the body.

Janet Hemingway tells Jim Al-Khalili about forthcoming insecticide resistance developing in the mosquitos that transmit malaria, and how it could cost many lives.