A life-changing database

Revolutionising research into every aspect of life.

• 32 mins

Covid 19 – reaching the unvaccinated

How to balance individual rights with the collective action needed to end the pandemic.

• 30 mins

Bees and multiple pesticide exposure

Pesticides more than double the trouble for bees

• 31 mins

IPCC report - extreme weather events

Climate change and extreme weather events.

• 30 mins

Mammoth Journey

Tusk reveals the story of a woolly mammoth's 70,000 kilometre journey

• 30 mins

Window to solve pandemic origins closing

Is time running out to trace the origins of the pandemic?

• 28 mins

Rugby and the brain

New clues on how tackles and knocks impact the brains of professional rugby players.

• 29 mins

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

What's the future of oil and gas exploration when limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees?

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

Mars rock samples; space tourism; fire debris and algal blooms; DNA vaccines for Covid.

• 31 mins

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

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

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

Covid vaccine boosters; why we don't have a tail; cassowary farming; book prize shortlist

• 33 mins

Surprising choice for Nobel prizes in a pandemic?

Nobel prizes; BepiColombo snaps Mercury; carbon take up by old oaks; mystery illnesses.

• 31 mins

Early Alzheimer's Alert

A simple test for the earliest stages of Alzheimer's.

• 32 mins

The Possible Impact of false-negative PCR Tests

False-negative PCRs, World Weather Attribution Science, and Metascience Studies.

• 38 mins

Atmospheric Pollutants and Where to Find Them

Do Ultra Low Emission Zones in Cities Work?

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

Gaia Vince hears how blue whales' huge appetites helped generate more food for themselves.

• 34 mins

Propane: Keeping Your Cool as the World Warms Around You

Can propane prevent air conditioning becoming a bigger burden on our heating planet?

• 38 mins

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

How much junk can we leave in orbit before space becomes impenetrable?

• 37 mins

Malaria: what's in it for the mosquito?

Gaia Vince finds out what benefit the malaria parasite brings to blood feeding mosquitoes.

• 36 mins

When Pandemics Collide

Did the omicron variant incubate in an immunocompromised patient?

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

T-Cells in vaccinated folk might just hold the fort against the latest SARS CoV2 variant.

• 30 mins

The James Webb Space Telescope

A new giant space telescope that will show us the first stars that shone in the universe.

• 33 mins

The Origin of Celtic Culture in Britain?

Archaeologists use ancient DNA to uncover an unrecognised mass migration into Britain.

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A new space age?

Could humans be on the Moon and Mars before this decade is out?

• 41 mins

Deep ocean exploration

The wonders and mysteries of the deep ocean, and the potential threats to it.

• 37 mins

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

What does it take to unearth the largest Jurassic reptile fossil the UK has ever seen?

• 28 mins

The 'perfect' depth for a destructive eruption

Whay was the blast from the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano so violent?

• 37 mins

Predicting Long Covid, and the Global Toll of Antimicrobial Resistance

Promising results suggest new biomarkers could rate the risk of developing Long Covid.

• 36 mins

The Continuing Story of the Nuclear Waste Bill

As energy costs rise, a look at the legacy cost of radioactive waste.

• 36 mins

Fusion energy smashes world record

Record-breaking energy extraction gets us closer to nuclear fusion at the UK-based JET lab

• 28 mins

COVID-19: Beginnings... and endings?

Is the pandemic coming to an end? Scientists weigh in.

• 32 mins

World’s largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye

Exciting finds from the dinosaur age, and how human behaviour shapes climate predictions

• 28 mins

Cyber frontlines in Ukraine

Cyber war in Ukraine, global energy security, and the IPCC climate change report.

• 28 mins

Inside Science is now first on BBC Sounds

New episodes will now be available first on Sounds for 28 days before other podcast apps.

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High Seas treaty talks and discoveries from the deep

UN talks on ocean protection; Covid’s effects on the brain; disruptions to Russian science

• 28 mins

Global food security during Ukraine conflict

Food supply risks; lead poisoning in birds; Covid monitoring; Artemis mission to moon.

• 28 mins

Racial inequality in UK science

Improving diversity in science; heatwaves at both poles; finding the best hedge to plant.

• 30 mins

How can the UK get to zero carbon?

With energy bills soaring, what's the best way to cut carbon use and keep the lights on?

• 27 mins

Declining Data, Climate Deadlines and the Day the Dinosaurs Died

Without mass studies and free testing, how will the UK keep an eye on Covid?

• 36 mins

A Trip-Switch for Depression?

Could magic mushrooms be the key to a revolution in treating depression?

• 35 mins

Building Better Engagement

Why does scientific communication matter and how might it be done better?

• 34 mins

The Ebb and Flow of the Tidal Power Revolution

What do we know about the mysterious cases of hepatitis in children?

• 43 mins

Precious Metals, Earlier Eggs, and Meaningful Meteorites

How bacteria could soon harvest precious metals from your old phone.

• 32 mins

Running Rings Around Matter

A remarkable image of the supermassive black hole at the middle of the Milky Way.

• 28 mins

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

Why Nasa's Marsquake monitor is powering down for good.

• 28 mins

Monkeypox, Pompeii aDNA, and Elephant Mourning Videos

Why are non-African monkeypox cases causing concern?

• 35 mins

A Reign of Science

Marnie Chesterton and guests take a walkabout through 70 years of science.

• 38 mins

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

A stalemate in EU/UK science cooperation, and secrets of the jubilee 'hologram' revealed.

• 33 mins

Inside Sentience

How could we spot a synthetic sentience even if we had made one?

• 28 mins

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

How hard is it to get to Mercury and why are we going?

• 28 mins

10 Years of the Higgs Boson

July 2022 marks 10 years since the Higgs Boson was confirmed to exist. What next?

• 28 mins

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

A trip round the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2022.

• 27 mins

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

The James Webb Space Telescope is finally in business - what treasures yet to come?

• 27 mins

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

What came before the Big Bang; why the theory of the multiverse makes sense.

• 27 mins

Heatwave: the consequences

What are the consequences of the recent UK heatwave for us, plants and our energy supply.

• 34 mins

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

ESA announce that Shaun The Sheep will fly around the moon this month aboard Artemis 1.

• 31 mins

Amplified Arctic Amplification and Microclot Clues to Post-Viral Disease

Arctic warming around four times faster than previously thought.

• 27 mins

A Possible Sequel to the Dinosaur Armageddon

Did the Chicxulub meteor that did for the dinosaurs have a smaller cousin?

• 30 mins

Return of the ozone hole

Australian fires have impacted the ozone layer.

• 29 mins

Dealing with drought

Dealing with drought, satellite clutter and mucus evolution.

• 31 mins

Ancient Amputation

How hunter gatherers in Borneo successfully performed surgery thousands of years ago.

• 28 mins

Is the James Webb Space Telescope too good?

Is the James Webb Space Telescope too good?

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Science collaborations – with Russia

How the war in Ukraine is impacting international research

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Fracking Science

The moratorium on fracking has been lifted, but what does the science say?

• 32 mins

Coronavirus - new variants

What does virus evolution mean for Covid severity as we head into winter?

• 34 mins

Avian flu

A new strain of the virus is taking a toll on both wild birds and poultry.

• 29 mins

The BBC at 100

Science, technology and the future of broadcasting.

• 50 mins

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

Turtle voices shed light on the evolutionary origins of vocal communication.

• 31 mins

Monkeypox

Could you have it and not know ?

• 34 mins

COP27

Loss and damage, Funding climate change impacts

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Climate science and politics

Holding the decision makers to account

• 27 mins

Science funding

Can the UK reach agreement with the EU on future scientific collaborations ?

• 29 mins

Killer smog

Seventy years ago, the deaths of thousands in London's smog led to the Clean Air Act.

• 32 mins

Biodiversity

Can international efforts plan a more sustainable future?

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Cancer cure, Strep A research and hopes for biodiversity

Editing DNA seems to have cured a teenager’s leukaemia

• 27 mins

A Scientifically Superior Christmas Dinner

We head to the kitchen to cook up the best Christmas dinner that science has to offer.

• 28 mins

Game changers

Marnie, Vic and Gaia look back at some of the biggest science news stories of 2022.

• 28 mins

The UK's first satellite launch

Competition in the space industry is set to boom.

• 30 mins

Chatbot plagiarism

Does modern AI technology pose a threat to student learning?

• 29 mins

Towards Net Zero

Changing our home heating and improving insulation to reduced bills and emissions.

• 31 mins

Vegetarian school dinners

Can serving less meat in school dinners help the UK reach its climate goals?

• 31 mins

Exploring the New Environmental Improvement Plan

What does the government's Environmental Improvement plan really mean?

• 31 mins

Abundant energy

What would the world look like if we had affordable energy available for everyone?

• 28 mins

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

CRISPR controversy, a stone tool discovery and killer whale mummy's boys.

• 29 mins

Antarctic Ice Special

What does the new record-breaking sea ice minimum mean for Antarctica?

• 32 mins

Covid leaks and conspiracies

Ministers, scientific advice and the search for scientific facts on the pandemic.

• 36 mins

Science superpower?

The government’s strategy for the future of science and technology

• 29 mins

Sweet Science

The unexpected medical uses of artificial sweeteners.

• 40 mins

Covid – missing link found?

A potential intermediate species in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from bats to humans.

• 27 mins

Net Zero

How does the government’s latest plan to reduce emissions stack up against the science?

• 34 mins

Recycling

We are facing a waste crisis; what must be done to promote and incentivise recycling?

• 27 mins

Negotiation

Tips and insights into the art of negotiating and the science underpinning it

• 28 mins

Rocket Launch Pollution

Popping the bonnet on the environmental impacts of a rapidly growing space industry.

• 28 mins

70th anniversary of the discovery of DNA’s structure

Fresh insights into Rosalind Franklin’s role in the identification of DNA’s double-helix.

• 32 mins

Wild Britain

What would the UK look like if it protected 30 per cent of its land and sea for nature?

• 28 mins

Can we prevent natural disasters?

Gaia Vince explores the steps we can take to mitigate the impacts of natural disasters.

• 30 mins

Science in the making

Travel back in time via 370 years of research from some of the greatest minds in science.

• 29 mins

The benefits and problems of eDNA

A new study to track turtles revealed unexpected levels of human eDNA in the environment.

• 30 mins

AI and human extinction

The machines are getting smarter. But is this a cause for concern?

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