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Thursday 25 February 2021 : On Thursday, The UN Environmental Programme published a report called Making Peace With Nature. It attempts to synthesise vast amounts of...
Thursday 18 February 2021 : On Thursday 18th Feb 2020 Nasa’s Perseverance Rover is due to touch down – gently and accurately – in the Jezero crater on Mars. Using...
Thursday 11 February 2021 : Victoria Gill and guests discuss the signs and symptoms of melting ice and anthropogenic climate warming, illicit CFC production and the...
Thursday 04 February 2021 : Ahead of the COP summit in Glasgow at the end of the year, this week an important study was published that attempts to enumerate the value...
Thursday 28 January 2021 : A year after the first SARS-Cov2 sequences were received in the vaccine labs, Dr Alex Lathbridge and guests look into ongoing development...
Thursday 21 January 2021 : Reports this week talk of some BAME ethnic minorities being significantly less likely to take a covid vaccine if offered. Vittal Katikireddi...
Thursday 14 January 2021 : In the new EU-UK deal, the UK is to be an associate member of the latest EU research funding round, known as Horizon Europe. Costing around...
Thursday 07 January 2021 : After the decision by the UK government last week to change the spacing between dosings of vaccine from the recommended 3 weeks to 12 weeks,...
Thursday 31 December 2020 : As a new decade ticks over, Dr Adam Rutherford, Professor Alice Roberts and Professor Brian Cox look back on a decade of science that has...
Thursday 24 December 2020 : Nobody could have failed to notice the one story dominating the science news this year - but what about the discoveries that have been...
Thursday 17 December 2020 : Dr Alex Lathbridge with your peek at the week in science. This week in the House of Commons Matt Hancock announced a new variant in the...
Thursday 10 December 2020 : Dr Alex Lathbridge brings you the week in science. As the first COVID vaccines are delivered this week hastening the first glimmers of a...
Thursday 03 December 2020 : Has one of the biggest problems in biology been solved by AI? Dr Alex Lathbridge brings you the week in science. This week google's Deep...
Thursday 26 November 2020 : Last weekend a joint European-US satellite blasted into space to begin its mission - monitoring the oceans back here on earth. Sentinel 6...
Thursday 19 November 2020 : Earlier this month, the government rolled out a pilot in Liverpool for ‘Operation Moonshot’, their proposal to spend £100 billion...
Thursday 12 November 2020 : Scientists this week announced hopeful results in two of the big COVID-19 vaccination trials. Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health at the...
Thursday 05 November 2020 : We know that children can catch the SarsCov2 virus, even though adverse side effects are incredibly rare. But what isn't clear is how likely...
Thursday 29 October 2020 : Marnie Chesterton presents an update on the week's science. Behind your eyes, above your mouth but below the brain, two 3cm saliva glands...
Thursday 22 October 2020 : If you contracted COVID will you then be protected from further infections and illness from SARS-CoV-2 in the future? We’re starting to...
Thursday 15 October 2020 : From the very start of the COVID pandemic, test and trace has been the mantra. But here in the UK it was started, then abandoned as the...
Thursday 08 October 2020 : Claudia Hammond looks at the neuroscience behind our sense of touch. Why does a gentle touch from a loved one make us feel good? This is...
Thursday 01 October 2020 : There are few images as awe-inspiring as those of the deep cosmos. Photos of the stars, galaxies, constellations and cosmic nebulae are...
Thursday 24 September 2020 : The Royal Society’s Insight Investment Science Book Prize’s shortlist has just been announced. Over the next few weeks, Marnie and Adam...
Thursday 17 September 2020 : As it starts to get colder and we crank up the central heating in our homes, what will the effect be on the SARs-CoV-2 virus? As a...
Thursday 10 September 2020 : Vaccination has eradicated smallpox, a disease that decimated populations through the 20th century. Polio is almost gone too, and measles is...
BBC Inside Science
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Good COP Bad COP, Shotgun Lead Persistence, and Featherdown Adaptation
On Thursday, The UN Environmental Programme published a report called Making Peace With Nature. It attempts to synthesise vast amounts of...
Nasa's Perseverance - will it pay off? And spotting likely hosts for future pandemics.
On Thursday 18th Feb 2020 Nasa’s Perseverance Rover is due to touch down – gently and accurately – in the Jezero crater on Mars. Using...
Meeting Mars, Melting Ice, Ozone on the Mend Again, and A Sea Cacophany
Victoria Gill and guests discuss the signs and symptoms of melting ice and anthropogenic climate warming, illicit CFC production and the...
Putting a number on biodiversity
Ahead of the COP summit in Glasgow at the end of the year, this week an important study was published that attempts to enumerate the value...
Next Gen Covid Vaccines; Man's Oldest Bestest Friend; Bilingual Brain Development
A year after the first SARS-Cov2 sequences were received in the vaccine labs, Dr Alex Lathbridge and guests look into ongoing development...
Vaccine Hesitancy and Ethnicity; The Joy of catnip; Lake Heatwaves
Reports this week talk of some BAME ethnic minorities being significantly less likely to take a covid vaccine if offered. Vittal Katikireddi...
UK Science post Brexit; GMOs vs Gene Editing regulation; Identical Twins That Aren't Indentical
In the new EU-UK deal, the UK is to be an associate member of the latest EU research funding round, known as Horizon Europe. Costing around...
Vaccine Dosing and Biodiversity Soundscape Monitoring
After the decision by the UK government last week to change the spacing between dosings of vaccine from the recommended 3 weeks to 12 weeks,...
Brian Cox and Alice Roberts on a decade of extraordinary science
As a new decade ticks over, Dr Adam Rutherford, Professor Alice Roberts and Professor Brian Cox look back on a decade of science that has...
Space Rocks, Aquatic Dinosaurs and Global Temperatures; 2020 science reviewed
Nobody could have failed to notice the one story dominating the science news this year - but what about the discoveries that have been...
Covid mutation; On the facial expression of emotions; A mystery object
Dr Alex Lathbridge with your peek at the week in science. This week in the House of Commons Matt Hancock announced a new variant in the...
Future risk planning; Millennium Seed Bank; Urban trees
Dr Alex Lathbridge brings you the week in science. As the first COVID vaccines are delivered this week hastening the first glimmers of a...
Protein folding; Hyabusa sample return; Holiday Covid testing
Has one of the biggest problems in biology been solved by AI? Dr Alex Lathbridge brings you the week in science. This week google's Deep...
26/11/2020
Last weekend a joint European-US satellite blasted into space to begin its mission - monitoring the oceans back here on earth. Sentinel 6...
COVID Operation Moonshot; Big Compost Experiment; Gulf of Mexico meteorite and new life
Earlier this month, the government rolled out a pilot in Liverpool for ‘Operation Moonshot’, their proposal to spend £100 billion...
mRNA vaccinations; bacterial space miners; Artemis accords
Scientists this week announced hopeful results in two of the big COVID-19 vaccination trials. Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health at the...
COVID in families; earthquake under Aegean Sea; Camilla Pang wins science book prize
We know that children can catch the SarsCov2 virus, even though adverse side effects are incredibly rare. But what isn't clear is how likely...
A new saliva gland, Bill Bryson on the Human Body, and the return of the Dust Bowl
Marnie Chesterton presents an update on the week's science. Behind your eyes, above your mouth but below the brain, two 3cm saliva glands...
COVID reinfections, Susannah Cahalan questions psychiatry and sense of smell and COVID
If you contracted COVID will you then be protected from further infections and illness from SARS-CoV-2 in the future? We’re starting to...
Test and trace - how the UK compares to the rest of the world; Linda Scott's book The Double X Economy
From the very start of the COVID pandemic, test and trace has been the mantra. But here in the UK it was started, then abandoned as the...
08/10/2020
Claudia Hammond looks at the neuroscience behind our sense of touch. Why does a gentle touch from a loved one make us feel good? This is...
Brian May's Cosmic Clouds 3-D; How fish move between waterbodies and Jim Al-Khalili's take on physics
There are few images as awe-inspiring as those of the deep cosmos. Photos of the stars, galaxies, constellations and cosmic nebulae are...
Royal Society Science Book Prize - Gaia Vince; Biodiversity loss and Science Museum mystery object
The Royal Society’s Insight Investment Science Book Prize’s shortlist has just been announced. Over the next few weeks, Marnie and Adam...
COVID-19 in Winter, Acoustics of Stonehenge and Dog years
As it starts to get colder and we crank up the central heating in our homes, what will the effect be on the SARs-CoV-2 virus? As a...
Coronavirus: The types of vaccine; How the UK is scaling up vaccine production
Vaccination has eradicated smallpox, a disease that decimated populations through the 20th century. Polio is almost gone too, and measles is...
