BBC Inside Science
BBC Radio 4
BBC Inside Science
BBC Radio 4
Thursday 19 May 2022 : Victoria Gill and guests ask why does scientific communication matters in society and how it might be done better, with Sam Illingworth,...
Thursday 12 May 2022 : Could magic mushrooms be the key to a revolution in treating depression? Professor David Nutt, director of the Imperial Centre for...
Thursday 05 May 2022 : Covid-19 infections in the UK are at an all-time high. But most people in England can no longer access free Covid-19 tests, and the REACT-1...
Thursday 28 April 2022 : Energy is essential: every living thing needs energy to survive, and today’s industrialised societies consume enormous quantities of it....
Thursday 21 April 2022 : This month the Royal Society of Chemistry released a shocking report on racial inequality at all stages of academia, from research funding...
Thursday 14 April 2022 : The Russian conflict in Ukraine is already causing hunger there, and as Ukraine and Russia are huge grain exporters, the crisis will be far...
Thursday 07 April 2022 : The High Seas make up most of our oceans but belong to no-one and are largely unregulated, leaving them at risk of plunder. UN talks start...
Thursday 31 March 2022 : As conflict continues in Ukraine, there are invisible ‘cyber frontlines’ running in parallel to the physical fighting. We hear how the...
Friday 04 March 2022 : Looking for the latest episode? New episodes of Inside Science will now be available first on BBC Sounds for four weeks before other podcast...
Thursday 24 February 2022 : In a week of exciting fossils finds we get up close to a 170 million year old pterosaur, found on the Isle of Skye. And over in the States,...
Thursday 17 February 2022 : With the prime minister proposing an end to self-isolation requirements as early as the end of the month, we thought we would check in with...
Thursday 10 February 2022 : This week the UK-based JET Laboratory broke its 25-year-old record for energy extracted by nuclear fusion - the process that powers the...
Thursday 03 February 2022 : Whilst energy prices are shooting up due to gas demand, in the UK the plans for the next generation nuclear reactors are moving ahead. The...
Thursday 27 January 2022 : Prof Onur Boyman, Director of department of Immunology at University Hospital, Zurich, this week published a paper in the journal Nature...
Thursday 20 January 2022 : Why was the blast from the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano so explosive? Where are we on the global climatic thermostat? And how you can...
Thursday 13 January 2022 : After 20 years of planning, preparation and a nail-biting build up fraught by delays The James Webb Space telescope finally launched on...
Thursday 06 January 2022 : UCL oceanographer Helen Czerski explores life in the ocean depths with a panel of deep sea biologists. They take us to deep ocean coral...
Thursday 30 December 2021 : Dr Kevin Fong convenes a panel of astronautical minds to discuss the next decade or two of space exploration. 2021 was an eventful year in...
Thursday 23 December 2021 : Victoria Gill hears of ancient DNA evidence for an unrecognised mass migration from continental Europe 3,000 years ago that may even have...
Thursday 16 December 2021 : The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is only days away. Scheduled for lift off on 24 December, the largest and most complex space...
Thursday 09 December 2021 : T-Cells in vaccinated people may be holding the fort, or at least fighting serious illness, against the latest SARS CoV2 variant. Also, how...
Thursday 02 December 2021 : As virologists around the world race to investigate the latest SARS CoV2 variant of concern, the UN’s World AIDS Day this week reminds us...
Thursday 25 November 2021 : Malaria, a disease that infects hundreds of millions of people and kills hundreds of thousands each year. It is caused after a plasmodium...
Thursday 18 November 2021 : Earlier in the week the current ISS crew had to prepare to evacuate after Russia tested an anti-satellite weapon, spreading thousands of...
Thursday 11 November 2021 : How propane might prevent air conditioning and refrigeration becoming an even bigger burden as our planet warms. Also, covid antiviral...
BBC Inside Science
BBC Radio 4
Building Better Engagement
Victoria Gill and guests ask why does scientific communication matters in society and how it might be done better, with Sam Illingworth,...
A Trip-Switch for Depression?
Could magic mushrooms be the key to a revolution in treating depression? Professor David Nutt, director of the Imperial Centre for...
Declining Data, Climate Deadlines and the Day the Dinosaurs Died
Covid-19 infections in the UK are at an all-time high. But most people in England can no longer access free Covid-19 tests, and the REACT-1...
How can the UK get to zero carbon?
Energy is essential: every living thing needs energy to survive, and today’s industrialised societies consume enormous quantities of it....
Racial inequality in UK science
This month the Royal Society of Chemistry released a shocking report on racial inequality at all stages of academia, from research funding...
Global food security during Ukraine conflict
The Russian conflict in Ukraine is already causing hunger there, and as Ukraine and Russia are huge grain exporters, the crisis will be far...
High Seas treaty talks and discoveries from the deep
The High Seas make up most of our oceans but belong to no-one and are largely unregulated, leaving them at risk of plunder. UN talks start...
Cyber frontlines in Ukraine
As conflict continues in Ukraine, there are invisible ‘cyber frontlines’ running in parallel to the physical fighting. We hear how the...
Inside Science is now first on BBC Sounds
Looking for the latest episode? New episodes of Inside Science will now be available first on BBC Sounds for four weeks before other podcast...
World’s largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye
In a week of exciting fossils finds we get up close to a 170 million year old pterosaur, found on the Isle of Skye. And over in the States,...
COVID-19: Beginnings... and endings?
With the prime minister proposing an end to self-isolation requirements as early as the end of the month, we thought we would check in with...
Fusion energy smashes world record
This week the UK-based JET Laboratory broke its 25-year-old record for energy extracted by nuclear fusion - the process that powers the...
The Continuing Story of the Nuclear Waste Bill
Whilst energy prices are shooting up due to gas demand, in the UK the plans for the next generation nuclear reactors are moving ahead. The...
Predicting Long Covid, and the Global Toll of Antimicrobial Resistance
Prof Onur Boyman, Director of department of Immunology at University Hospital, Zurich, this week published a paper in the journal Nature...
The 'perfect' depth for a destructive eruption
Why was the blast from the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano so explosive? Where are we on the global climatic thermostat? And how you can...
The Rutland ‘Sea Dragon’, An Astronomer's Christmas and some Animal Magic
After 20 years of planning, preparation and a nail-biting build up fraught by delays The James Webb Space telescope finally launched on...
Deep ocean exploration
UCL oceanographer Helen Czerski explores life in the ocean depths with a panel of deep sea biologists. They take us to deep ocean coral...
A new space age?
Dr Kevin Fong convenes a panel of astronautical minds to discuss the next decade or two of space exploration. 2021 was an eventful year in...
The Origin of Celtic Culture in Britain?
Victoria Gill hears of ancient DNA evidence for an unrecognised mass migration from continental Europe 3,000 years ago that may even have...
The James Webb Space Telescope
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is only days away. Scheduled for lift off on 24 December, the largest and most complex space...
Initial Omicron Lab Data, Creative Naps, and Fishy Sounds.
T-Cells in vaccinated people may be holding the fort, or at least fighting serious illness, against the latest SARS CoV2 variant. Also, how...
When Pandemics Collide
As virologists around the world race to investigate the latest SARS CoV2 variant of concern, the UN’s World AIDS Day this week reminds us...
Malaria: what's in it for the mosquito?
Malaria, a disease that infects hundreds of millions of people and kills hundreds of thousands each year. It is caused after a plasmodium...
Yet More Space Junk; COP-up or COP-out; The End of Bias.
Earlier in the week the current ISS crew had to prepare to evacuate after Russia tested an anti-satellite weapon, spreading thousands of...
Propane: Keeping Your Cool as the World Warms Around You
How propane might prevent air conditioning and refrigeration becoming an even bigger burden as our planet warms. Also, covid antiviral...
