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A preview of Series 15, plus more strange-but-true science papers
Series 11
The Alien Enterprise Part 1
How do we look for alien life, and what are we expecting to find?
The Alien Enterprise Part 2
Are intelligent aliens out there?
The Running Joke
How fast can a human run?
The Random Request
Is anything really random?
A World of Pain
Why do we all have different pain thresholds?
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A preview of series 16: Longer, louder and locked down.
Series 12
The Viking Code
How do ancestry DNA tests work?
The Stressful Scone
Why do we have regional accents?
Two Infinities and Beyond - part 1
Does infinity exist? And why are some infinities bigger than others?
Two Infinities and Beyond - part 2
Is anything in the Universe infinite? Science sleuths Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate.
The Good Bad Food
Why does bad food taste so good? Science sleuths Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate.
The Horrible Hangover
Why do we get hangovers and are some drinks worse than others?
The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry
Series 13
The Mesmerist
Is hypnotism real? Drs Rutherford and Fry find out by visiting a hypnotist
The Periodic Problem
How do you discover a new chemical element?
An Instrumental Case
Why do instruments sound different?
The Lunar Land Pt 1
Where did the Moon come from?
The Lunar Land Pt2
What would life be like if we had two moons?
Jurassic Squawk
What sound did dinosaurs make?
Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: The Biggest Event in Human History
The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's 主播大秀 Reith Lectures.
Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: AI in Warfare
Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: AI in the Economy
Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: A Future for Humans
We鈥檙e (almost) back!
Rutherford and Fry return for a new series of scientific sleuthing
Series 14
A Frytful Scare Part 1
Why do we enjoy horror? Rutherford and Fry explore the thrill of fear
A Frytful Scare Part 2
Rutherford and Fry board a rollercoaster to investigate why we enjoy being scared
Stephen Fry's Identity Crisis
Stephen Fry asks the duo to investigate why he struggles to remember faces.
The Heart of the Antimatter
How do you make antimatter? Science sleuths Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate.
The Trouble Sum Weather
Why is it so difficult to predict the weather?