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Dara O Briain's Science Club

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Experts and a lively audience join Dara O Briain to tackle the biggest ideas in science.

Experts and a lively audience join Dara O Briain to tackle the biggest concepts in science and discover the great ideas that are changing the world we live in.

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Dara O Briain's Science Club: Series 2

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Mark Miodownik

Helen Czerski

Alok Jha

Helen Thomas

Kaye Godleman

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Dara O Briain's Science Club: Series 2: Episode 5: Size Matters

Size Matters

Episode 5

Episode 5: Size Matters

Series 2

BBC Two - Dara O Briain's Science Club, Series 2, Size Matters

Dara and the team probe the miniscule and the enormous to reveal why size matters.

Dara and the team reveal why size matters in science and how discoveries large and small are changing the way we view the universe, the economy and even our bodies.

Dara and the team probe the miniscule and the enormous to reveal why size matters and how discoveries at either end of the scale are changing the way we view the universe. 

Professor Mark Miodownik discovers an astonishingly effective lo-tech weapon in the battle against nefarious hospital superbugs. Science journalist Alok Jha visits a premature baby unit in Canada to see how Big Data can save tiny lives. Dr Helen Czerski goes a mile underground in South Dakota to join the hunt for our missing universe and the team visits the New York Stock Exchange to find out how much a millisecond is worth in hard cash. In the studio, Dara investigates the explosive effects of size and Mark swallows a miniature camera to reveal his internal organs.

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Dara and his team of experts return to look at everything from insects to mind control.

Dara and his team of experts return to look at subjects including insects, time and mind control.

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