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Horizon: The Hunt for AI

Marcus Du Sautoy wants to find out how close we are to creating machines that can think like us: robots or computers that have artificial intelligence.

His journey takes him to a strange and bizarre world where AI is now taking shape.

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How Musical Are You?

Discover your complex relationship with music. Uncover your five factors of musicality and test your sense of rhythm and pitch.

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Bang Goes The Theory

Dallas finds out how crowds can co-operate subconsciously, Liz sees how architects control the flow of crowds, and Jem meets scientists trying to understand how crush injuries can occur. Plus, 80s number cruncher, Johnny Ball, demonstrates just how biologists measure population size.

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The ice fountains of Enceladus

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Professor Brian Cox explores geysers in Iceland and discovers how the ice fountains on Saturn's moon Enceladus get their power.

BRAINSMART

A brain

Meet your brain

Your brain is the supercomputer that generates all your thoughts, memories, dreams, emotions and ideas. Take a trip inside the human brain, and see what happens when it learns something new.

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Bang Goes the Theory

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Prepare to cringe as Dr Yan goes in search of the most excruciating sound in the world. Find out what it is and why it's so bad - if you dare!

SCIENCE ON RADIO 4

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Material World

Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects

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Bat killer fungus still spreading

Little brown bat (Image: Ryan von Linden/New York Department of Environmental Conservation)

White-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has killed more than 5.5 million bats, is continuing to spread across the US, data shows.

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