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Thursday, March 23, 2023 32 minutes

Gene Editing Ethics, Killer Whale Mummy's Boys and Ancient Hippo Butchery

Thursday, March 16, 2023 29 minutes

Abundant energy

Thursday, March 9, 2023 28 minutes

Exploring the New Environmental Improvement Plan

Thursday, March 2, 2023 31 minutes

Vegetarian school dinners

Thursday, February 23, 2023 31 minutes

Towards Net Zero

Thursday, February 16, 2023 31 minutes

Chatbot plagiarism

Thursday, February 9, 2023 29 minutes

The UK's first satellite launch

Thursday, February 2, 2023 27 minutes

Game changers

Thursday, January 26, 2023 28 minutes

A Scientifically Superior Christmas Dinner

Thursday, January 19, 2023 28 minutes

Cancer cure, Strep A research and hopes for biodiversity

Thursday, January 12, 2023 27 minutes

Biodiversity

Thursday, January 5, 2023 28 minutes

Killer smog

Thursday, December 29, 2022 32 minutes

Science funding

Thursday, December 22, 2022 29 minutes

Climate science and politics

Thursday, December 15, 2022 27 minutes

COP27

Thursday, December 8, 2022 32 minutes

Monkeypox

Thursday, December 1, 2022 34 minutes

Turtle Voices, a Pandemic Retrospective and a Nose-Picking Primate

Thursday, November 24, 2022 31 minutes

The BBC at 100

Thursday, November 17, 2022 50 minutes

Avian flu

Thursday, November 10, 2022 29 minutes

Coronavirus - new variants

Thursday, November 3, 2022 34 minutes

Fracking Science

Thursday, October 27, 2022 32 minutes

Science collaborations – with Russia

Thursday, October 20, 2022 31 minutes

Is the James Webb Space Telescope too good?

Thursday, October 13, 2022 28 minutes

Ancient Amputation

Thursday, October 6, 2022 28 minutes

Dealing with drought

Thursday, September 29, 2022 31 minutes

Return of the ozone hole

Thursday, September 22, 2022 27 minutes

A Possible Sequel to the Dinosaur Armageddon

Thursday, September 15, 2022 30 minutes

Amplified Arctic Amplification and Microclot Clues to Post-Viral Disease

Thursday, September 8, 2022 27 minutes

Shaun The Sheep Jumps Over The Moon, Bronze Age Kissing and PPE Rubbish

Thursday, September 1, 2022 31 minutes

Heatwave: the consequences

Thursday, August 25, 2022 34 minutes

Multiverses, melting glaciers and what you can tell from the noise of someone peeing

Thursday, August 18, 2022 27 minutes

Deep Space and the Deep Sea - 40 years of the International Whaling Moratorium.

Thursday, August 11, 2022 27 minutes

Robotic Thumbs, Mending Bones with Magnets, and the State of Science this Summer

Thursday, August 4, 2022 27 minutes

10 Years of the Higgs Boson

Thursday, July 28, 2022 35 minutes

Engineering Around Mercury, Science Festivals, and The Rise of The Mammals

Thursday, July 21, 2022 30 minutes

Inside Sentience

Thursday, July 14, 2022 28 minutes

Miscounting Carbon, EU Funding Stalemate, and How to Make a Royal Hologram

Thursday, July 7, 2022 33 minutes

A Reign of Science

Thursday, June 30, 2022 38 minutes

Monkeypox, Pompeii aDNA, and Elephant Mourning Videos

Thursday, June 23, 2022 35 minutes

Buried Mars Landers, Freezing Species, and Low-Tide Archaeology

Thursday, June 16, 2022 28 minutes

Running Rings Around Matter

Thursday, June 9, 2022 28 minutes

Precious Metals, Earlier Eggs, and Meaningful Meteorites

Thursday, June 2, 2022 32 minutes

The Ebb and Flow of the Tidal Power Revolution

Thursday, May 26, 2022 43 minutes

Building Better Engagement

Thursday, May 19, 2022 34 minutes

A Trip-Switch for Depression?

Thursday, May 12, 2022 35 minutes

Declining Data, Climate Deadlines and the Day the Dinosaurs Died

Thursday, May 5, 2022 36 minutes

How can the UK get to zero carbon?

Thursday, April 28, 2022 27 minutes

Racial inequality in UK science

Thursday, April 21, 2022 32 minutes

Global food security during Ukraine conflict

Thursday, April 14, 2022 28 minutes

High Seas treaty talks and discoveries from the deep

Thursday, April 7, 2022 28 minutes

Cyber frontlines in Ukraine

Thursday, March 31, 2022 28 minutes

Inside Science is now first on BBC Sounds

Friday, March 4, 2022 1 minutes

World’s largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye

Thursday, February 24, 2022 28 minutes

COVID-19: Beginnings... and endings?

Thursday, February 17, 2022 32 minutes

Fusion energy smashes world record

Thursday, February 10, 2022 28 minutes

The Continuing Story of the Nuclear Waste Bill

Thursday, February 3, 2022 36 minutes

Predicting Long Covid, and the Global Toll of Antimicrobial Resistance

Thursday, January 27, 2022 36 minutes

The 'perfect' depth for a destructive eruption

Thursday, January 20, 2022 37 minutes

The Rutland ‘Sea Dragon’, An Astronomer's Christmas and some Animal Magic

Thursday, January 13, 2022 28 minutes

Deep ocean exploration

Thursday, January 6, 2022 37 minutes

A new space age?

Thursday, December 30, 2021 41 minutes

The Origin of Celtic Culture in Britain?

Thursday, December 23, 2021 38 minutes

The James Webb Space Telescope

Thursday, December 16, 2021 33 minutes

Initial Omicron Lab Data, Creative Naps, and Fishy Sounds.

Thursday, December 9, 2021 30 minutes

When Pandemics Collide

Thursday, December 2, 2021 41 minutes

Malaria: what's in it for the mosquito?

Thursday, November 25, 2021 36 minutes

Yet More Space Junk; COP-up or COP-out; The End of Bias.

Thursday, November 18, 2021 37 minutes

Propane: Keeping Your Cool as the World Warms Around You

Thursday, November 11, 2021 38 minutes

How Whales Farmed For Food, COP progress, and The Last Stargazers

Thursday, November 4, 2021 34 minutes

Atmospheric Pollutants and Where to Find Them

Thursday, October 28, 2021 33 minutes

The Possible Impact of false-negative PCR Tests

Thursday, October 21, 2021 38 minutes

Early Alzheimer's Alert

Thursday, October 14, 2021 32 minutes

Surprising choice for Nobel prizes in a pandemic?

Thursday, October 7, 2021 31 minutes

Covid vaccine boosters; why we don't have a tail; cassowary domestication; Royal Society Science book prize shortlist

Thursday, September 30, 2021 33 minutes

La Palma volcano; wind energy in the UK; origins of SARS-Cov2; Formula 1 safety

Thursday, September 23, 2021 31 minutes

Perseverance drills on Mars; space tourism; Australian fire debris and algal blooms; DNA vaccines against Covid

Thursday, September 16, 2021 31 minutes

Climate change and oil and gas exploration; cutting methane emissions; African wild dog populations; freezing eggs and sperm

Thursday, September 9, 2021 29 minutes

Rugby and the brain

Thursday, September 2, 2021 29 minutes

Window to solve pandemic origins closing

Thursday, August 26, 2021 28 minutes

Mammoth Journey

Thursday, August 19, 2021 30 minutes

IPCC report - extreme weather events

Thursday, August 12, 2021 30 minutes

Bees and multiple pesticide exposure

Thursday, August 5, 2021 31 minutes

Covid 19 – reaching the unvaccinated

Thursday, July 29, 2021 30 minutes

A life-changing database

Thursday, July 22, 2021 32 minutes

Covid19 - should we test everybody ?

Thursday, July 15, 2021 28 minutes

Covid and our ancient ancestors

Thursday, July 8, 2021 28 minutes

Gene editing gets real

Thursday, July 1, 2021 31 minutes

UK science policy shake-up; Ivermectin & Covid; black fungus in Indian Covid patients; many hominins in Siberian cave

Thursday, June 24, 2021 34 minutes

Cov-Boost trial; SARS-Cov 2 infection in action; sapling guards; why tadpoles are dying

Thursday, June 17, 2021 30 minutes

Covid vaccines in children; preventing dengue; algal blooms; supersonic flight

Thursday, June 10, 2021 31 minutes

Lab origin theory of SARS-Cov2; gene for obesity; dark matter map; rock art in Scotland

Thursday, June 3, 2021 31 minutes

Human use of plants beyond the limits of history.

Thursday, May 27, 2021 35 minutes

Blood Clot Cure, Synthetic Fuels and Coal Mine Heat Pumps

Thursday, May 20, 2021 42 minutes

Microplastics in UK river beds

Thursday, May 13, 2021 35 minutes

Early burials, diversity in Tudor England, a malaria vaccine, and rogue brain waves

Thursday, May 6, 2021 27 minutes

Dragonfly on Titan, Retreating Glaciers, Surge Testing, Acoustic lighthouses

Thursday, April 29, 2021 32 minutes

Coronavirus variants and vaccines, climate change resistant coffee, dare to repair and how to get rid of moths

Thursday, April 22, 2021 28 minutes

Blood clots, grieving and the emotion of screams

Thursday, April 15, 2021 28 minutes

Disobedient particles, noisy gorillas, sharks and fictional languages

Thursday, April 8, 2021 30 minutes

Science funding cuts; Mice get Covid-19; Native oyster reintroductions

Thursday, April 1, 2021 28 minutes

Halfway to net zero; hydrogen as a fuel; Fagradalsfjall, Iceland’s active volcano

Thursday, March 25, 2021 32 minutes

Human embryo research and ethics; sperm whale social learning; Antikythera mechanism

Thursday, March 18, 2021 31 minutes

China's green growth plan

Thursday, March 11, 2021 27 minutes

Blue carbon; inside Little Foot's skull; reading locked letters

Thursday, March 4, 2021 30 minutes

Good COP Bad COP, Shotgun Lead Persistence, and Featherdown Adaptation

Thursday, February 25, 2021 30 minutes

Nasa's Perseverance - will it pay off? And spotting likely hosts for future pandemics.

Thursday, February 18, 2021 49 minutes

Meeting Mars, Melting Ice, Ozone on the Mend Again, and A Sea Cacophany

Thursday, February 11, 2021 41 minutes

Putting a number on biodiversity

Thursday, February 4, 2021 41 minutes

Next Gen Covid Vaccines; Man's Oldest Bestest Friend; Bilingual Brain Development

Thursday, January 28, 2021 35 minutes

Vaccine Hesitancy and Ethnicity; The Joy of catnip; Lake Heatwaves

Thursday, January 21, 2021 30 minutes

UK Science post Brexit; GMOs vs Gene Editing regulation; Identical Twins That Aren't Indentical

Thursday, January 14, 2021 32 minutes

Vaccine Dosing and Biodiversity Soundscape Monitoring

Thursday, January 7, 2021 38 minutes

Brian Cox and Alice Roberts on a decade of extraordinary science

Thursday, December 31, 2020 38 minutes

Space Rocks, Aquatic Dinosaurs and Global Temperatures; 2020 science reviewed

Thursday, December 24, 2020 32 minutes

Covid mutation; On the facial expression of emotions; A mystery object

Thursday, December 17, 2020 33 minutes

Future risk planning; Millennium Seed Bank; Urban trees

Thursday, December 10, 2020 36 minutes

Protein folding; Hyabusa sample return; Holiday Covid testing

Thursday, December 3, 2020 36 minutes

26/11/2020

Thursday, November 26, 2020 30 minutes

COVID Operation Moonshot; Big Compost Experiment; Gulf of Mexico meteorite and new life

Thursday, November 19, 2020 30 minutes

mRNA vaccinations; bacterial space miners; Artemis accords

Thursday, November 12, 2020 36 minutes

COVID in families; earthquake under Aegean Sea; Camilla Pang wins science book prize

Thursday, November 5, 2020 30 minutes

A new saliva gland, Bill Bryson on the Human Body, and the return of the Dust Bowl

Thursday, October 29, 2020 34 minutes

COVID reinfections, Susannah Cahalan questions psychiatry and sense of smell and COVID

Thursday, October 22, 2020 34 minutes

Test and trace - how the UK compares to the rest of the world; Linda Scott's book The Double X Economy

Thursday, October 15, 2020 39 minutes

08/10/2020

Thursday, October 8, 2020 34 minutes

Brian May's Cosmic Clouds 3-D; How fish move between waterbodies and Jim Al-Khalili's take on physics

Thursday, October 1, 2020 36 minutes

Royal Society Science Book Prize - Gaia Vince; Biodiversity loss and Science Museum mystery object

Thursday, September 24, 2020 34 minutes

COVID-19 in Winter, Acoustics of Stonehenge and Dog years

Thursday, September 17, 2020 30 minutes

Coronavirus: The types of vaccine; How the UK is scaling up vaccine production

Thursday, September 10, 2020 29 minutes

Bird and dinosaur skull evolution; the wonders of yeast and Science Museum mystery object

Thursday, September 3, 2020 28 minutes

What does the science say about the COVID risks of schools reopening? Dolphin ear autopsy

Thursday, August 27, 2020 31 minutes

Smart bricks, The Royal Academy of Engineering awards for pandemic engineering solutions and detecting SARS-Cov-2 in sewage

Thursday, August 20, 2020 28 minutes

Land use and zoonoses, California's earthquake risk and the Tuatara genome

Thursday, August 13, 2020 27 minutes

How sperm swim, the theory of soil & the Big Compost Experiment update

Thursday, August 6, 2020 28 minutes

Science Museum mystery objects; home security camera security and Rosalind Franklin at 100

Thursday, July 30, 2020 31 minutes

Pre-prints over peer review during the COVID pandemic and roads and birds

Thursday, July 23, 2020 31 minutes

Science Fraud & Bias, Immunity to COVID-19

Thursday, July 16, 2020 28 minutes

Satellite navigation in the UK; the science of the World Wide Web and Neolithic genomics

Thursday, July 9, 2020 33 minutes

Preventing pandemics, invading alien species, blood types & COVID-19.

Thursday, July 2, 2020 28 minutes

The Human Genome Project's 20th Anniversary

Thursday, June 25, 2020 32 minutes

Coronavirus conspiracy, Listeners' mask questions, Solar Orbiter gets close to the Sun

Thursday, June 18, 2020 40 minutes

Engineering out of lockdown and should we castrate male dogs?

Thursday, June 11, 2020 28 minutes

Back to School and Covid-19 and Ordnance Survey and the pandemic

Thursday, June 4, 2020 27 minutes

Testing & Tracing the coronavirus, and the traces our movements leave behind

Thursday, May 28, 2020 30 minutes

Coronavirus-free science, the impact of lockdown on climate change and the odds of both life and intelligent life existing.

Thursday, May 21, 2020 28 minutes

Coronavirus R number, genome study of Covid-19 survivors and using aircraft messages to assess aviation

Thursday, May 14, 2020 32 minutes

Should the public wear face masks? Did SARS-Cov-2 escape from a laboratory in Wuhan?

Thursday, May 7, 2020 29 minutes

Testing for immunity to COVID-19 and Citizen science on BBC Radio past and present

Thursday, April 30, 2020 31 minutes

Understanding Covid-19 death rates; Contact tracing apps; Whale sharks and atomic bombs

Thursday, April 23, 2020 42 minutes