BBC World Service - Discovery

Does Money Make you Mean?

Hong Kong psychologists test the effects of money from our generosity to agression

Does becoming rich make you less kind to those around you?

The impact of selective mutism, a condition often described as a phobia of speaking

The medical phenomenon of the nocebo effect, the fear that something is harmful

Can the world’s companies manufacture four times more stuff without gutting the planet?

What is swelling the world’s mountain of electrical and electronic waste?

Why understanding how we smell has led to a paralysed man walking again

Palaeontologist and naturalist Richard Fortey on the evoloution of the Earth

Jim Al-Khalili meets a world authority on Artificial Intelligence, Maggie Boden

Geoff Watts continues his exploration of the science and culture of gossip