5 cases of an unusual disease 30 years ago were the first signs of what became the global AIDS pandemic.

Colin Grant talks to James Gleick, about his book, The Information, a history of information.

We report on the implications of the world's first release of genetically modified mosquitoes in a populated area where Dengue Fever is rife.

As the World Health Organisation's annual assembly takes place in Geneva, Jon Stewart asks if they should take the decision finally to destroy...

Inflight Science - Brian Clegg guides Jon Stewart in the science of aeroplane flight

Astronomer Dr Lucie Green hears about the Square Kilometre Array; 3000 radio telescopes spread across a continent that could search for habitable...

Surgeons are great innovators but are they good researchers? Do they need to be? In this Discovery, Geoff Watts asks the question "Is Surgery...

Claudia Hammond investigates why happiness seems to have hit the headlines recently and asks whether a happier nation would ultimately be a more...

Yuri Gagarin was the first spaceman. This week's special is an hour long special on that epic mission 50 years ago.

What happens when science goes bad? From the anthropological hoax of Piltdown man back in 1912, through to more recent cases, such as that of Dr...