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BBC Inside Science — 649 episodes
Finding the evidence for the social media ban
How do you build an unbuildable tower?
Can we prevent the next pandemic?
Forty years on from nuclear disaster
Return to the moon
Responding to your science questions
Recommending: 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II
The future of space travel
Is quantum computing having its moment?
Is the Earth warming faster than we expected?
How is war being fought in space?
Does new science get us closer to finding out how life on earth began?
How to bury radioactive waste
Will there be a city on the moon in ten years?
Where do forever chemicals come from?
Should we rethink navigating by GPS?
How is air travel returning to supersonic speeds?
Why is Nasa sending people around the moon?
How rare are Greenland’s rare earth elements?
How did President Trump transform science in 2025?
Would our ancestors have benefited from early neanderthals making fire?
A 'functional' cure for HIV?
Why aren’t gene therapies more common?
What’s in the wording of the COP 30 negotiations?
Could technology replace animal testing in science?
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?
Is climate change to blame for Hurricane Melissa?
Have scientists created a bionic eye?
Why do we love to play games?
What can the UK learn from China on renewable energy?
Are embryos made from skin cells the future of fertility treatment?
The science behind autism
What’s the highest a human could possibly pole vault?
Could we have evidence of life on Mars?
What does caffeine do to our bodies?
Does warm weather mean more rats in UK towns and cities?
Could solar panels in space be the energy source of the future?
What will we be wearing in the future?
What’s the evidence for vaccines?
Why wasn’t the Russia mega earthquake as damaging as previous ones?
The surprising culture of the animal kingdom
How can we keep our homes cool in a changing climate?
How can we reduce the impact of plastic on the environment?
How do you turn facial expressions into music?
What happens when you bomb a uranium enrichment site?
Are trees the answer to solving climate change?
What science is the UK government funding?
Can science save our oceans?
Your science questions answered
Does the pandemic agreement make the world safer?
Will the Hole in the Ozone Layer Close?
The mysteries of the ocean floor
How vulnerable is our power supply?
What would cuts to Nasa mean for space science?
Answers to Your Science Questions
How can science help us fight wildfires?
Is this finally the moment for UK tidal power?
Is everything we know about the universe wrong?
Wild birds in crisis
Are boys doing better than girls at maths and science?
Better Than Gold: Critical Minerals
AI in Science: Promise and Peril
Biotech Risks and Asteroid Anxiety
US science in chaos
The World’s Biggest Iceberg
Is 1.5 still alive?
Next-gen batteries and 'dark oxygen'
UK AI & science-optimised pasta
Science in 2025
The Science of Laughter
Board Game Science
The Year in Science
The rising threat of bird flu
Fact-checking the Bovaer backlash
Is flood forecasting failing?
The climate cost of war
Nuclear medicine shortages and Jane Goodall on COP29
COP29: Are climate summits working?
Spooky Science
Whatever happened to graphene?
Are our carbon sinks failing?
Should we bring back extinct animals?
Could coal shut-down mark new era for energy?
How green is space travel?
Is lab-grown meat the future of food?
The first civilian spacewalk
The Grenfell cladding
Predicting everything
Why aren’t we eating more insects?
Beavers of London
Going for gold
How much of a risk is space junk?
CERN’s Supercollider Plan
Should Antarctica be off limits?
Wimbledon Grass Science
Sun, sea... and science
What makes an effective protest?
Taylor Swift Seismology
Are implanted brain chips the future?
How do we solve antibiotic resistance?
Why do we sleep?
Micro Nuclear Reactors
Is gene therapy the future?
Is treated sewage worse for the environment than raw?
Ugly animals and asteroid Apophis
Can we get plastic waste under control?
Do we need a new model of cosmology?
Bird flu outbreak in cows
200 years of dinosaur science
Inside Your Microbiome
Our Accidental Universe
World’s oldest forest fossils
How pure is the water from your tap?
Dimming the Sun
Laboratory-Grown Meat
The Gulf Stream’s tipping point
Ancient Roman writings revealed
When brains and computers meet
Hydrogen and the race to net zero
A New Volcanic Era?
Understanding Flood Forecasting
Space Exploration
12 days of Christmas - science version
The Science of the South Pole
Biggest COP in history
Vagrant Birds
Finding Tunnels
UK Covid-19 Inquiry
Iceland Volcano
Loss and damages for vulnerable countries
Metal Mines
Forever chemicals
White phosphorus
Tumbling down the rabbit hole of assembly theory
Life beyond Earth
The state of nature in the UK
Why is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rowing back on climate pledges?
The halfway point for sustainable development
What’s the cost of invasive species?
How will climate change affect where we can live?
What makes a healthy river?
Why do we want to go back to the Moon?
Time is still ticking for the Amazon
Reality check: carbon capture and storage
Battles with flames
The wide-ranging effects of climate change
How social media can affect the health of teenagers
Mapping the universe
Heat and health
The science of sound
The Kakhovka dam and global food security
An ocean of opportunities
AI and human extinction
The benefits and problems of eDNA
Science in the making
Can we prevent natural disasters?
Wild Britain
70th anniversary of the discovery of DNA’s structure
Rocket Launch Pollution
Negotiation
Recycling
Net Zero
Covid – missing link found?
Sweet Science
Science superpower?
Covid leaks and conspiracies
Antarctic Ice Special
Gene Editing Ethics, Killer Whale Mummy's Boys and Ancient Hippo Butchery
Abundant energy
Exploring the New Environmental Improvement Plan
Vegetarian school dinners
Towards Net Zero
Chatbot plagiarism
The UK's first satellite launch
Game changers
A Scientifically Superior Christmas Dinner
Cancer cure, Strep A research and hopes for biodiversity
Biodiversity
Killer smog
Science funding
Climate science and politics
COP27
Monkeypox
Turtle Voices, a Pandemic Retrospective and a Nose-Picking Primate
The BBC at 100
Avian flu
Coronavirus - new variants
Fracking Science
Science collaborations – with Russia
Is the James Webb Space Telescope too good?
Ancient Amputation
Dealing with drought
Return of the ozone hole
A Possible Sequel to the Dinosaur Armageddon
Amplified Arctic Amplification and Microclot Clues to Post-Viral Disease
Shaun The Sheep Jumps Over The Moon, Bronze Age Kissing and PPE Rubbish
Heatwave: the consequences
Multiverses, melting glaciers and what you can tell from the noise of someone peeing
Deep Space and the Deep Sea - 40 years of the International Whaling Moratorium.
Robotic Thumbs, Mending Bones with Magnets, and the State of Science this Summer
10 Years of the Higgs Boson
Engineering Around Mercury, Science Festivals, and The Rise of The Mammals
Inside Sentience
Miscounting Carbon, EU Funding Stalemate, and How to Make a Royal Hologram
A Reign of Science
Monkeypox, Pompeii aDNA, and Elephant Mourning Videos
Buried Mars Landers, Freezing Species, and Low-Tide Archaeology
Running Rings Around Matter
Precious Metals, Earlier Eggs, and Meaningful Meteorites
The Ebb and Flow of the Tidal Power Revolution
Building Better Engagement
A Trip-Switch for Depression?
Declining Data, Climate Deadlines and the Day the Dinosaurs Died
How can the UK get to zero carbon?
Racial inequality in UK science
Global food security during Ukraine conflict
High Seas treaty talks and discoveries from the deep
Cyber frontlines in Ukraine
World’s largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye
COVID-19: Beginnings... and endings?
Fusion energy smashes world record
The Continuing Story of the Nuclear Waste Bill
Predicting Long Covid, and the Global Toll of Antimicrobial Resistance
The 'perfect' depth for a destructive eruption
The Rutland ‘Sea Dragon’, An Astronomer's Christmas and some Animal Magic
Deep ocean exploration
A new space age?
The Origin of Celtic Culture in Britain?
The James Webb Space Telescope
Initial Omicron Lab Data, Creative Naps, and Fishy Sounds.
When Pandemics Collide
Malaria: what's in it for the mosquito?
Yet More Space Junk; COP-up or COP-out; The End of Bias.
Propane: Keeping Your Cool as the World Warms Around You
How Whales Farmed For Food, COP progress, and The Last Stargazers
Atmospheric Pollutants and Where to Find Them
The Possible Impact of false-negative PCR Tests
Early Alzheimer's Alert
Surprising choice for Nobel prizes in a pandemic?
Covid vaccine boosters; why we don't have a tail; cassowary domestication; Royal Society Science book prize shortlist
La Palma volcano; wind energy in the UK; origins of SARS-Cov2; Formula 1 safety
Perseverance drills on Mars; space tourism; Australian fire debris and algal blooms; DNA vaccines against Covid
Climate change and oil and gas exploration; cutting methane emissions; African wild dog populations; freezing eggs and sperm
Rugby and the brain
Window to solve pandemic origins closing
Mammoth Journey
IPCC report - extreme weather events
Bees and multiple pesticide exposure
Covid 19 – reaching the unvaccinated
A life-changing database
Covid19 - should we test everybody ?
Covid and our ancient ancestors
Gene editing gets real
UK science policy shake-up; Ivermectin & Covid; black fungus in Indian Covid patients; many hominins in Siberian cave
Cov-Boost trial; SARS-Cov 2 infection in action; sapling guards; why tadpoles are dying
Covid vaccines in children; preventing dengue; algal blooms; supersonic flight
Lab origin theory of SARS-Cov2; gene for obesity; dark matter map; rock art in Scotland
Human use of plants beyond the limits of history.
Blood Clot Cure, Synthetic Fuels and Coal Mine Heat Pumps
Microplastics in UK river beds
Early burials, diversity in Tudor England, a malaria vaccine, and rogue brain waves
Dragonfly on Titan, Retreating Glaciers, Surge Testing, Acoustic lighthouses
Coronavirus variants and vaccines, climate change resistant coffee, dare to repair and how to get rid of moths
Blood clots, grieving and the emotion of screams
Disobedient particles, noisy gorillas, sharks and fictional languages
Science funding cuts; Mice get Covid-19; Native oyster reintroductions
Halfway to net zero; hydrogen as a fuel; Fagradalsfjall, Iceland’s active volcano
Human embryo research and ethics; sperm whale social learning; Antikythera mechanism
China's green growth plan
Blue carbon; inside Little Foot's skull; reading locked letters
Good COP Bad COP, Shotgun Lead Persistence, and Featherdown Adaptation
Nasa's Perseverance - will it pay off? And spotting likely hosts for future pandemics.
Meeting Mars, Melting Ice, Ozone on the Mend Again, and A Sea Cacophany
Putting a number on biodiversity
Next Gen Covid Vaccines; Man's Oldest Bestest Friend; Bilingual Brain Development
Vaccine Hesitancy and Ethnicity; The Joy of catnip; Lake Heatwaves
UK Science post Brexit; GMOs vs Gene Editing regulation; Identical Twins That Aren't Indentical
Vaccine Dosing and Biodiversity Soundscape Monitoring
Brian Cox and Alice Roberts on a decade of extraordinary science
Space Rocks, Aquatic Dinosaurs and Global Temperatures; 2020 science reviewed
Covid mutation; On the facial expression of emotions; A mystery object
Future risk planning; Millennium Seed Bank; Urban trees
Protein folding; Hyabusa sample return; Holiday Covid testing
26/11/2020
COVID Operation Moonshot; Big Compost Experiment; Gulf of Mexico meteorite and new life
mRNA vaccinations; bacterial space miners; Artemis accords
COVID in families; earthquake under Aegean Sea; Camilla Pang wins science book prize
A new saliva gland, Bill Bryson on the Human Body, and the return of the Dust Bowl
COVID reinfections, Susannah Cahalan questions psychiatry and sense of smell and COVID
Test and trace - how the UK compares to the rest of the world; Linda Scott's book The Double X Economy
08/10/2020
Brian May's Cosmic Clouds 3-D; How fish move between waterbodies and Jim Al-Khalili's take on physics
Royal Society Science Book Prize - Gaia Vince; Biodiversity loss and Science Museum mystery object
COVID-19 in Winter, Acoustics of Stonehenge and Dog years
Coronavirus: The types of vaccine; How the UK is scaling up vaccine production
Bird and dinosaur skull evolution; the wonders of yeast and Science Museum mystery object
What does the science say about the COVID risks of schools reopening? Dolphin ear autopsy
Smart bricks, The Royal Academy of Engineering awards for pandemic engineering solutions and detecting SARS-Cov-2 in sewage
Land use and zoonoses, California's earthquake risk and the Tuatara genome
How sperm swim, the theory of soil & the Big Compost Experiment update
Science Museum mystery objects; home security camera security and Rosalind Franklin at 100
Pre-prints over peer review during the COVID pandemic and roads and birds
Science Fraud & Bias, Immunity to COVID-19
Satellite navigation in the UK; the science of the World Wide Web and Neolithic genomics
Preventing pandemics, invading alien species, blood types & COVID-19.
The Human Genome Project's 20th Anniversary
Coronavirus conspiracy, Listeners' mask questions, Solar Orbiter gets close to the Sun
Engineering out of lockdown and should we castrate male dogs?
Back to School and Covid-19 and Ordnance Survey and the pandemic
Testing & Tracing the coronavirus, and the traces our movements leave behind
Coronavirus-free science, the impact of lockdown on climate change and the odds of both life and intelligent life existing.
Coronavirus R number, genome study of Covid-19 survivors and using aircraft messages to assess aviation
Should the public wear face masks? Did SARS-Cov-2 escape from a laboratory in Wuhan?
Testing for immunity to COVID-19 and Citizen science on BBC Radio past and present
Understanding Covid-19 death rates; Contact tracing apps; Whale sharks and atomic bombs
Lockdown lessons for climate change and the carbon neutral Cumbrian coal mine
Testing for asymptomatic coronavirus carriers, Human Cell Atlas, and invasive parakeets
Coronavirus: Models & being ‘led by the science’; Mars500 isolation tips; Kids’ science - singing glasses
Coronavirus - Lockdown efficacy; viral testing; surface survival; dog walking safety
TB vaccination to replace culling in badgers; Neil Shubin on the wonders of evolution
Biology of the new coronavirus
Banning lead shot for hunting; UK Fireball Network and Extremely thin gold
The Big Compost Experiment; Using AI to screen for new antibiotics; Science of slapstick
Coronavirus questions; HMS Challenger and ocean acidification; Sean Carroll's quantum world
Ordnance Survey - Britain's 220-year-old tech company; Launching synthetic voices and personality test
Solar Orbiter launch; Mutational signatures in cancer; paleo-oncology
Coronavirus update, Typhoid Mary and 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica
Coronavirus outbreak in China; Genetic diseases in Amish communities and getting an Egyptian mummy to speak
Reproducibility crisis in science; Aeolus wind-measuring satellite; electric cars
Australian bush fires; Veganuary and LIGO
The hidden history in our DNA - Part 2 - Travel and Culture
The hidden history in our DNA - Part 1 - Sex and Disease
Ten years of Zooniverse; what happened to volcano Anak Krakatau and visualising maths
Earliest hunting scene cave painting; animal domestication syndrome
Global Carbon Emissions; Parker Solar Probe and simulating swaying buildings
What's the problem with palm oil and should we be supporting sustainably grown oil? Virtual reality skin
Noise pollution and wildlife; No till farming; Cornwall's geothermal heat
Soils and floods, Air pollution and ultra-low emission zones, detecting the drug Spice
Fracking moratorium; Bloodhound; Big Compost Experiment; transit of Mercury
African genomes sequenced; Space weather; sports head injuries
Organic farming emissions; Staring at seagulls; Salt and dementia
Ebola model, Partula snails, Malaria origin
Extinction Rebellion, UK net zero emissions and climate change; Nobel Prizes
HIV protective gene paper retraction, Imaging ancient Herculaneum scrolls, Bill Bryson's The Body
Oceans, ice and climate change; Neolithic baby bottles; Caroline Criado-Perez wins RS Book Prize
MOSAiC Arctic super-expedition, Likely extinction of the Bahama nuthatch, Tim Smedley's book on air pollution
Model embryos from stem cells, Paul Steinhardt's book on impossible crystals, Mother Thames
Inventing GPS, Carbon nanotube computer, Steven Strogatz and Monty Lyman discuss calculus and skin
Amazon fires, Royal Society Book Prize shortlist announced, John Gribben on quantum physics
UK's black squirrels' genetic heritage; nuclear fusion in the UK and the Royal Society's science book prize
UK power cut, Huge dinosaur find in Wyoming, Micro-plastics in Arctic snow
Making the UK's dams safe, AI spots fake smiles, How many trees should we be planting?
Lovelock at 100; Hydrothermal vents and antibiotic resistance in the environment
False positives in genetic test kits, Impact of fishing on ocean sharks, Sex-change fish
Turing on the new £50 note, Moon landing on the radio, 25 years since Shoemaker-Levy comet
Earliest modern human skull, Analysing moon rocks, Viruses lurking in our genomes
X-Rays on Mercury, Monkey Tools, Music of Molecules, AI Drivers
Global Food Security, Reactive Use-By Labels, Origins of the Potato
Rinderpest destruction, Noise and birdsong, Science as entertainment
Net-Zero carbon target, Science Policy Under Thatcher, Screen time measures
CCR5 Mutation Effects, The Surrey Earthquake Swarm, Animal Emotions
How maths underpins science
New CFC emissions, Cannabis and the Environment, The Noisy Cocktail Party, Automated Face Recognition
Hubble Not-So Constant, Synthetic E. Coli, The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt
Forensic science provision, optimal garden watering strategy, and a mystery knee bone
Sex, gender and sport - the Caster Semenya case and the latest Denisovan discovery
Thought-to-speech machine, City Nature Challenge, Science of Storytelling
Notre-Dame fire, Reviving pig brains, ExoMars, Evolution of faces
Visualising a black hole, Homo luzonensis, Two ways to overcome antimicrobial resistance
Cretaceous catastrophe fossilised, LIGO and Virgo, Corals, Forensic shoeprint database
UK pollinating insect numbers, Tracking whales using barnacles, Sleep signals
Where next World Wide Web? Space rocks and worms
Rules and ethics of genome editing, Gender, sex and sport, Hog roasts at Stonehenge
A cure for HIV? Sleepy flies, Secrets of the Fukushima disaster, Science fact checking
Falling carbon and rising methane; Unsung heroes at the Crick
Mars - rovers v humans? Forests and carbon, Ethiopian bush crow
Insect decline, Gut microbiome, Geomagnetic switching
Sea Level Rise, Equine Flu, Generator Bricks, Iberian Genes
Sprinting Neanderthals, Geodynamo, Spreading Sneezes and Dying Hares
Ultima Thule, Dry January, Periodic Table
Gene-edited twins, Placenta organoids in a dish, When the last leaves drop
Mars InSight mission, Detecting dark matter, Redefining the kilogram, Bovine TB
Bovine TB and badger culling, Shrimp hoover CSI, Shark-skin and Turing
Oldest cave picture; the Anthropocene under London; a new scientist for the £50 note
Repairing potholes, Ozone hole, Internet of hives, Drugs from fingerprints
Science and Brexit, Antibiotic livestock growth promoters, Bepicolombo goes to Mercury
Old Dogs and Physics in Space
IPCC report, Cairngorms Connect project, grass pea, the Sun exhibition at Science Museum
Nobel Prizes - Hayabusa 2 latest - IPCC meeting - North Pole science
Hyabusa 2 at Ryugu, deadly 1918 flu pandemic; WW2 bombing and ionosphere, teenage brain
Science of Addiction
First human drawing, Cycling genes, Oden Arctic expedition, Hello World
Complexity in Biology
Electronic brain probe; Rural stream biodiversity; Arctic weather research trip; Science book prize
Cavendish banana survival; Guillemot egg shape; Unexpected Truth About Animals; Tambora's rainstorm
Capturing greenhouse gas, Beating heart failure with beetroot, Why elephants don't get cancer, Exactly - a history of precision
New Horizons' next mission, Helium at 150, The Beautiful Cure, Oden arctic expedition
Parker solar probe, Diversity in the lab, Royal Society book prize, Arctic circle weather
Liquid water on Mars, Early embryo development, Earth Biogenome Project, Marine wilderness
Peatbog wildfires, Coral acoustics, Magdalena Skipper, Fuelling long-term space travel
Out of Africa, Predicting future heatwaves, Virtual reality molecules, Life in the dark
Northern white rhino preservation, Deep sea earthquake detection, Twitter's rare Heuchera discovery, Human roars
Hyabusa mission; ProtoDUNE neutrino detector; Caledonian crow skills; Koala microbiome
The Large Hadron Collider Upgrade, Voltaglue, Cambridge Zoology Museum, Francis Willughby
Antarctic melt speeds up, Antarctica's future, Cryo-acoustics, Narwhals
Dinosaur auction, Who owns the genes of the ocean life, Cancer immunotherapy
Hay Festival
CO2 and rice, Underground farming, Ancient interstellar asteroid, Microplastics air pollution
Face Recognition, ‘Thug’ plants, Cancer Funding Inequalities, Feynman’s 100th birthday
Rat eradication; elephant talk; the rise of the dinosaurs; physics of snooker
Antarctic, Kew, Paleogenomics, Sea birds
Human Consciousness: Could a brain in a dish become sentient?
Plastic-eating bacteria, Foam mattresses for crops, The evolved life aquatic, The Double Helix
Pesticides in British Farming
Stephen Hawking Tribute
Genes and education, John Goodenough, Caring bears and hunting
Data Scraping
Buzz kill
Russian Spy Poisoning
Weird Weather?
Science after Brexit
Shipping air pollution; Cheddar Man; Millirobots in the body;Dog brain training
Democracy in Space
Scientists on Trial
Did typhoid kill the Aztecs, DNA stored in Bitcoin, Glow-in-the-dark plants and levitating humans
African swine fever, Oil spill update, CRISPR gene editing, Rat eradication in New Zealand, Chimp kin recognition
Sanchi oil tanker, Gut gas-monitoring pill and Chimpanzee portraits
Tabby's Star, Space 2018, Mosquito sounds, C diff and food additive link
Ancient DNA and Human Evolution
Antisense RNA therapy, Fossils vs Trump, Printing mini-kidneys, Electric eel power
The Future of Coral Reefs, Little Foot, Arthur C Clarke
Trophy hunting, Gene drives, Nuclear lightning, Peregrine falcons and drones
Prehistoric Strong Women, Semi-synthetic Life, Listener Feedback, Artificial Superintelligence
Interstellar visitor, Svante Paabo, Synthetic biology, Plight of the Axolotl
Can we forecast earthquakes?, Britain's space race rocket Skylark, Francis Galton
Boy gets New Skin, The York Gospels, Stephen Hawking's Thesis
Climate Change and Health; Moth Snow Storm Feedback; Whale Brain Evolution; Pharoah's Serpent
Insects disappearing, DNA Biosensor, Dog faces, Bandit dinosaur
Colliding Neutron Stars, Krakatoa, Centigrade vs Celsius
HiQuake, Plate Tectonics@50, Sonic Weapon Puzzle, The Chinese Typewriter
Gravity wave breakthrough, The antibiotic pipeline, Microbial waste recycling, Fausto - an AI opera
Cassini's finale; Science and Technology Select Committee; Crick's lecture; Cave acoustics
Farewell to Cassini, the epic 20 year mission to Saturn
North Korea Bomb Tests, Warming Antarctic Sea Life, the Microbiome, Cuckoo Chuckle
Noxious haze over south coast; In Pursuit of Memory book; technosphere; Big Wasp Survey
Killer robots; Myths and superstitions and conservation; Science book prize nominee - Cordelia Fine; Taxidermy
Antarctica's volcanoes, science book prize nominee - Mark O'Connell, US solar eclipse and 40 years of NASA's Voyager mission
European heatwave and climate change, Eugenia Cheng, Next generation batteries for electric cars, Joseph Hooker exhibition.
Gene-editing human embryos, Spaceman's eyes, Science book prize, Sexual selection in salmon
Cod fisheries, Our connection to nature, Domestic electricity and Gamma ray bursts
Genetics and privacy, Global plastic, Great Ape Dictionary, Ocean Discovery X Prize
Genetic testing; Pugs on treadmills; Frankenstein
Neonics dispute, Hygenic bees, Hip-hop MRI
Sex bias in biology, Engineering prize, Olympic bats, Angry Chef
Forensics Centre in Dundee; D'Arcy Thompson centenary; Scottish science adviser; Coffee and climate
Science in Fire Prevention
Early Humans Were Even Earlier Than We Thought
The Importance of Basic Research
Sherpas - dolphin rescue - quantum computing - hot lavas
Childhood cancers - Ghana telescope - Nano-listening device for cells - Ancient whales
Violins - Social networks and cliques in great tits and snow monkeys - Exploring DNA and art
The moral brain, stem cell developments, ancient DNA in cave dirt, mangrove forest
Homo naledi, First humans in America, Dark matter detector, New theory of dark matter
Cassini’s death, scrapping diesel, weather balloon, satellites monitoring volcanos
23andMe Genetic Sequencing, Human Knockout genes, Coral Bleaching
Creation of island Britain, Sleep gene, Mary Kelly forensics, Global Tree Search survey
Climate change and extreme weather; Primate brain size; Earthquake forecasting; Planet 9
Comet 67P images; Etna eruption; Brain navigation; Octopus intelligence
Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, Aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones
Rise of the Robots: 3. Where is my mind?
Cells and Celluloid: Aliens on Film
Rise of the Robots: 2. More human than human
Rise of the Robots: 1. The history of things to come
Earth's Earliest Life, The Benefits of Pollution, Sexuality and Science and New ideas on Evolution
The perils of fake science news, The neanderthal inside us, What The Beatles really sang - statistically speaking
Science and cyber security, Dinosaur babies, Winston Churchill and level crossings
Measuring human impact on earth, Awards for engineers, Sounds of space junk.
Wildlife trafficking, New quantum computers, Ancient bird beaks, Glassblowing.
Crime, volcanoes, ghosts and how we are influenced by the genes of unrelated others
Antarctic science rescue, Killing cancer with viruses, Measuring wind from space and the Last man on the moon
The perils of explaining science, Living to 500, What's good for your teeth and The future of stargazing
RIP Granny the oldest Orca - Graphene + Silly Putty - Moving a Giant Magnet - Space in 2017
Listeners' Questions
Inuits and Denisovans, Sex and woodlice, Peace through particle physics, Caspar the octopus in peril?
Rock traces of life on Mars, Desert fireball network, Gut microbes and Parkinson's Disease, Science Museum's maths exhibition
Alzheimers research, Lucy in the Scanner, Smart bandages, From supernovae to Hollywood
Predator bacteria therapy, New money for UK science, Stick-on stethoscope, Taming fears in the brain scanner
Does Pluto have an ocean, Antarctica's oldest ice, Meat emissions, Swifts fly ten months non-stop
Climate change questions, Animal computer interaction, Sounds and meaning across world's languages
Italy's quakes, Ebola virus, Accidental rocket fuel, China in space
Making mozzies safe with a microbe, CO2 at 400 ppm, Chixculub crater rocks, Why Mars Lander failed
HFC Ban; Human Cell Atlas; Origin of Hunting with Dogs
Life on Mars? Quantum Gravity. The deep origins of bird song
Microbead impact, Remote animal logging, Royal Society book prize, Surgewatch
Proxima b exoplanet, The Hunt for Vulcan, East Antarctic lakes, Deep sea shark hunting
Autonomous cars, Bees and neonicotinoids, Marden Henge, Royal Society Book Prize
Blow to the LHC "bump", Crow intelligence, Robot mudskippers, Royal Society book prize
Signs of life on planets, Royal Society Book Prize, Queen Bee control, Galactic Prom 29
Dinosaur extinction, Neanderthals in Gibraltar, Music appreciation, A year of New Horizons
Juno, Space debris, Fake tumours, Risky plants
Juno, Nanotech art conservation, Robots fix the city, Eel conservation
National Insect Week, Venus' electric field, Green mining, Wimbledon grass science
More gravitational waves; Ocean floor mapping; Selfish Gene 40th; Spoonies
Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance
Fixing the Future
GM plants; Svalbard Seed Vault; Directed Evolution; Dolphin Snot
Climate Change, State of the World's Plants, Antibiotic Resistance, Telephone Metadata, Bat Detective
Genetics and education, Eyam plague, Pint of science, Labradors and chocolate
Human embryos, Transit of Mercury, Fishackathon, Fat labradors
Chernobyl, Drones, Tree crickets, Cern
EU membership and UK science, Quantum games, Fixing genes
Breakthrough Starshot, Moon mining, QB50, Solar Q&A
Air pollution monitoring, Britain breathing, Tracking Hannibal
Solar farm, Gravity machine, Kakapo
Flu, Coffee yeasts, Wave machine, Cochlear implants
Recovering lost memories, Storks eat junk food, Oldest pine fossil, Spring flowering
Gain-of-function research, Mindfulness, Women in science, Snake locomotion
UK's longest-running cohort study, The Brain prize, Hairy genetics
UK science and the EU, Sex of organs, Artificial colon, Gorillas call when eating
Gravitational Waves, UK Spaceport, Big Brains and Extinction Risk, Conservation in Papua New Guinea
Gravitational Waves Special
UK pollinators' food, Brain implant, Holograms, Lunar 9
Zika, Penguins, Erratum, Fossil fish
Ancient Britons' DNA, Concorde's 40th Anniversary, Giant dinosaur, New planet?
The 100,000 Genome Project, Stem cell doping, Nuclear waste, Dinosaur sex
El Nino Special
31/12/2015
New Horizons Pluto update; friendly predatory bacteria; Christmas in the lab; human ancestry
Tim Peake's mission to the ISS, Spaceman Chris Hadfield, AGU round-up, Air pollution, Human Evolution at the NHM
Flooding, Scientific modelling, Magnetoreception, Escalators
Science funding, Carbon capture storage, Graphene
Ancient farmers' genomes, Alice at Cern, Astrophysics questions
Antarctic ice sheet instability, Groundwater, Accents, Fluorescent coral
Sex-change tree, Pluto's cryovolcanoes, Sellafield's plutonium, Ant super-organisms
Grid cells and time, Boole, How your brain shapes your life
Oxygen on comet 67P; Bees and antimicrobial drugs; Reproducibility of science experiments; Reintroduction of beavers
Animal experiments, Bees and diesel, Sense Ocean, Readability of IPCC report
Time Travel in Science and Cinema
Ethiopian genome, Coral nutrients, The hunt for gravitational waves, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Write on Kew festival at Kew Gardens, Preserving global biodiversity
Pluto images, Space elevator, Insect migration, Imagination app
Homo Naledi, New spacesuit, Quantum biology, A possible cure for motion sickness
El Nino, Sphagnum moss and peatlands, Inside Cern, Measuring air pollution with iPhones
20/08/2015
Scottish GM ban, Earth's magnetic field, OCD, Birth of a new galaxy
Pluto's surface, Increased Arctic ice in 2013, Linking brains together, Signals of fertility
Pluto: New Horizons
Intrusive memories, Silent aircraft, Nuclear fusion, Pluto
Aphid-repelling wheat, National Institute for Bioscience, Global map of smell, Parrot mimics
Malaria drug, Listener feedback, Imaging the singing voice, Classifying human species
Stars, Fracking, Ice Cores, Drunken Chimps
Origins of life, Earthquakes in London, Frog plague, Ancient pollen
Self-adapting robots, Artificial intelligence in medicine, Ageing healthily
El Nino, Echolocation, Seasons, Snakes
Seasonal Variation in Immunity, Chemosynthesis, Role of the ISS, Storing Digital Data in DNA
Nepalese Earthquake, Monkey Hands, Maritime Light Pollution, Light in Bacteria
Healthy Guts; Future High Speed Trading; Body Clocks and Colour; William Smith's Geology Map
Hubble Space Telescope at 25
Legacy of Messenger, Computer Touch, AI and Traumatic Forgetting, Stained Glass Restoration
Invasive Species, Coral Seaview Survey, Evolution of the Brain, A New Virtual Reality
Genetic Map of the British Isles, Drones for Conservation, Lab Photosynthesis, Solar Eclipse
Large Hadron Collider Run Two, Flooding, Nasa's Biggest Rocket, Violin Evolution
Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; Women in science; Ceres
Artificial Intelligence, Desalination, History of Forensics, Music from Cells
Alzheimer's Disease, False Memory, Diamond Light Source, Twins in Space
Earth's Core; What Can Chemistry Do for Us?; Ocean Acidification; Darwin Day
Goshawk, Cosmic Renaissance, Carl Djerassi and Charles Townes
Climate change belief; Anthropocene era; Eyes on the sea; Origins of multicellular life
GMOs; International Year of Light; Coral health
International Year of Soils
Venus mission, Science highlights for 2015, Sonotweezers, Tsunami 10 years on
Listeners' Science Questions
Microplastics; Holey Ice; Vesalius; Overeating
Water on Comets; DNA in Space; Sounds of the Ocean; Science in Fashion
Orion Launch; Fake Mars trip; XDNA; Richard the Third's skeleton
Campylobacter in Chicken; Artificial Intelligence Guru Demis Hassabis; Sexology; Lucy
Comet landing detects organics molecules; Lunar Mission One; Biological warfare
Rosetta; Thought-controlled genes; Biophonic Life; Arecibo message 40 years on
Science of ageing; Microneedles; Firelab; Rosetta; Scientific authorship
The Making of the Moon
Hobbit; Genetics of height; Solar science; Snails
Ebola; Ada Lovelace Day; Space Weather
Nobel Prizes 2014; Gauge; Genetics and Diabetes; UK Fungus Day
Women, Science and the Royal Society; Open Access Research
Cosmic inflation latest; Indian space success; Science and language; Wax Venus
European ancestry; Cern is 60; Graphene plasters; Penguins
Jack the Ripper; Future of Scottish science
Bardarbunga volcano; Geology in Minecraft; Synthesising opioids; Ammonia
Manipulating mouse memory; London pollution; Nature of knowing; Snail fur
TB in the New World; Trusting Wikipedia; Shipwreck of the London; @LegoAcademics
Anaesthesia; Chilean earthquakes; Strange weather; Jellyfish
New dinosaur; GM chickens; Lightning; Rosetta; Diatoms
ExpeRimental; Rosetta; MOOCs
Science's fascination with the face
A special programme on plants and their pollinators, poisons and pests
Behavioural profiling at airports; Light and colour in art; Hadrian's Wall; Cassini
Informed consent, El Nino, Gravitational Waves, Cloud cover
Longitude Prize Winner; Solar cells; New species; Fiji fisherwomen; Physics questions
Antarctic Invaders; Patents; Longitude Challenges for Water and Antibiotics
Turing test; World Cup exo-skeleton; Plant cyborgs; Music hooks
Moving Mountains; Invasive Species; Football Stickers
Women scientists; Mapping the ocean floor; Amplituhedron
Longitude Prize 2014; Dementia; Matter from light; Coastal deposition
Antarctic melt; brain enhancing devices, atomic clocks and anti-bat moth sounds
Colin Pillinger; Fire? Artificial DNA
Mice & Men; Fuel from CO2; fRMI; Insect calls
Y chromosome; Everest avalanche; Aphid survey; Longitude
Sperm and egg; Dogs; Automatic Facebook; Invasive species
Whales; Dark Matter; Falling; Arty brains
Calorie Restriction; Moon Age; Mars Yard; IPCC.
Fracking; Purple GM tomatoes; Bionic humans; Shark attacks
Cosmic inflation; LISA; Photonic radar; Bird stress camera; Water research; Taxidermy
Tracking planes; Peer review; Mega-virus; Astronaut
LG - Chemical weapons, Turtles, Tech for wildlife, Climate
Brain Machine Interfaces; Question on Gay Genes; Studying Drinking Behaviour
Bees; Whales; Pain; Gay genes
Whales from space; Flood emails; SUYI JET Lasers; CERN's new tunnel; Discoveries exhibition
Engineering for floods; Neanderthal genes; Switching senses; Genes in Space game
Neanderthals; Plague; Wind Tunnel; Music Timing; Stem Cells
Higgs Boson; Neutrinos; Antarctic echo locator; Rainforest fungi; Alabama rot
Personal genetics kits; Persister cells; Earthquake mapping; Scorpions
Antarctica weather and climate change; GM Fish Oils; Melanin Fossils; Time Travel
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
Bacteriophages; Breath-detecting disease; Our bees electric and DNA Barcoding
Antimicrobial soap; GAIA; Stone-age jellybones; Antarctica
Horsemeat; NanoSims; Early bacteria; Crystallography
Badger culls; Douglas Mawson; Plastics; Uptalk
Therapeutic hypothermia; Cameras on Gaia; Methane; Wine microbiota
Bird Atlas; Flywheels; Energy capture; Science lessons for MPs
DNA to ID typhoon victims; Volcanic ash; Hope for red squirrels; Robogut
Personal genome; Solar cells and music; Asteroids; Alfred Russel Wallace
Moon dust; Electro-ceuticals; Soil and climate change; Dogs' tails
Nuclear Waste; Exoplanets; BBC time and pips, Synthetic Biology Olympics
Genetics and education; Golden Rice inventor; Chimp Chatter and Lightning Lab
US shutdown; Nobels; New climate science; Airport heart attack headlines
Menopause; IPCC; Fracking feedback; Particle accelerator; Zombie chemicals
Fracking FAQs; Fingerprint feedback; Lipstick forensics; Snake hook
Chemical weapons; Crowd-sourcing weather; Fingerprint ID; Dino drill
Stem cell news; Science practicals; Phantom head; Sewage power
Fukushima ice wall; Martian menus; Science practicals; Eye tracker
Research bias; Sniffer dogs; Lasers; Roadkill
Artificial reefs; Scanning beehives; Ape feet; NMR
Universal flu vaccine; Science games; AllTrials; Penguin camera
Lab-grown leather; Goal line technology; Bacteria outrage; Marine buoy
Crash risk; Mary Rose bacteria; History of Science; Greenwich telescope
2D supermaterials; Inside an MRI; Antarctic architecture
Animal research; Astronaut selection; Show us your instrument
Bioscience to bioweapons; Synthetic diamonds; Stem cell transplants
Bovine TB; Coral sunscreen; Space junk