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All in the Mind

Claudia Hammond reports on the results of the BBC's scientific study into the UK's stress levels. How anxious and depressed are we and what does this huge psychology experiment tell us about the causes of all kinds of mental ill health? Peter Kinderman, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Liverpool, reveals the results of the first experiment of this size and asks what it can tell us about our mental well being and what coping mechanisms we can use to be more resilient to stress.

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BBC Lab UK: Results from the Stress Test

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Test Your Morality

What drives your sense of right and wrong? Help scientists research the origins of moral instincts and discover your own moral characteristics.

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What the scientists hope to learn

Disgust: How did the word change so completely?

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The Night Sky In Winter

Are you keen to give stargazing a go but don't know what you can see? Get to know the winter night sky in the northern hemisphere with tips from Sir Patrick Moore and his expert guests on The Sky at Night.

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A Hubble Space Telescope image of the central region of the Orion Nebula

The Life Scientific

Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for mankind.

The Life Scientific

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Taking the pulse of Ngozumpa

Ngozumpa Glacier

Climate change in the Nepalese Himalayas means many glaciers are being eroded, leading to the production of large lakes that pose a future flood hazard.

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