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1

Can we prevent the next pandemic?

2

Forty years on from nuclear disaster

3

Return to the moon

4

Responding to your science questions

5

Recommending: 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II

6

The future of space travel

7

Is quantum computing having its moment?

8

Is the Earth warming faster than we expected?

9

How is war being fought in space?

10

Does new science get us closer to finding out how life on earth began?

11

How to bury radioactive waste

12

Will there be a city on the moon in ten years?

13

Where do forever chemicals come from?

14

Should we rethink navigating by GPS?

15

How is air travel returning to supersonic speeds?

16

Why is Nasa sending people around the moon?

17

How rare are Greenland’s rare earth elements?

18

How did President Trump transform science in 2025?

19

Would our ancestors have benefited from early neanderthals making fire?

20

A 'functional' cure for HIV?

21

Why aren’t gene therapies more common?

22

What’s in the wording of the COP 30 negotiations?

23

Could technology replace animal testing in science?

24

Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?

25

Is climate change to blame for Hurricane Melissa?

26

Have scientists created a bionic eye?

27

Why do we love to play games?

28

What can the UK learn from China on renewable energy?

29

Are embryos made from skin cells the future of fertility treatment?

30

The science behind autism

31

What’s the highest a human could possibly pole vault?

32

Could we have evidence of life on Mars?

33

What does caffeine do to our bodies?

34

Does warm weather mean more rats in UK towns and cities?

35

Could solar panels in space be the energy source of the future?

36

What will we be wearing in the future?

37

What’s the evidence for vaccines?

38

Why wasn’t the Russia mega earthquake as damaging as previous ones?

39

The surprising culture of the animal kingdom

40

How can we keep our homes cool in a changing climate?

41

How can we reduce the impact of plastic on the environment?

42

How do you turn facial expressions into music?

43

What happens when you bomb a uranium enrichment site?

44

Are trees the answer to solving climate change?

45

What science is the UK government funding?

46

Can science save our oceans?

47

Your science questions answered

48

Does the pandemic agreement make the world safer?

49

Will the Hole in the Ozone Layer Close?

50

The mysteries of the ocean floor

51

How vulnerable is our power supply?

52

What would cuts to Nasa mean for space science?

53

Answers to Your Science Questions

54

How can science help us fight wildfires?

55

Is this finally the moment for UK tidal power?

56

Is everything we know about the universe wrong?

57

Wild birds in crisis

58

Are boys doing better than girls at maths and science?

59

Better Than Gold: Critical Minerals

60

AI in Science: Promise and Peril

61

Biotech Risks and Asteroid Anxiety

62

US science in chaos

63

The World’s Biggest Iceberg

64

Is 1.5 still alive?

65

Next-gen batteries and 'dark oxygen'

66

UK AI & science-optimised pasta

67

Science in 2025

68

The Science of Laughter

69

Board Game Science

70

The Year in Science

71

The rising threat of bird flu

72

Fact-checking the Bovaer backlash

73

Is flood forecasting failing?

74

The climate cost of war

75

Nuclear medicine shortages and Jane Goodall on COP29

76

COP29: Are climate summits working?

77

Spooky Science

78

Whatever happened to graphene?

79

Are our carbon sinks failing?

80

Should we bring back extinct animals?

81

Could coal shut-down mark new era for energy?

82

How green is space travel?

83

Is lab-grown meat the future of food?

84

The first civilian spacewalk

85

The Grenfell cladding

86

Predicting everything

87

Why aren’t we eating more insects?

88

Beavers of London

89

Going for gold

90

How much of a risk is space junk?

91

CERN’s Supercollider Plan

92

Should Antarctica be off limits?

93

Wimbledon Grass Science

94

Sun, sea... and science

95

What makes an effective protest?

96

Taylor Swift Seismology

97

Are implanted brain chips the future?

98

How do we solve antibiotic resistance?

99

Why do we sleep?

100

Micro Nuclear Reactors

101

Is gene therapy the future?

102

Is treated sewage worse for the environment than raw?

103

Ugly animals and asteroid Apophis

104

Can we get plastic waste under control?

105

Do we need a new model of cosmology?

106

Bird flu outbreak in cows

107

200 years of dinosaur science

108

Inside Your Microbiome

109

Our Accidental Universe

110

World’s oldest forest fossils

111

How pure is the water from your tap?

112

Dimming the Sun

113

Laboratory-Grown Meat

114

The Gulf Stream’s tipping point

115

Ancient Roman writings revealed

116

When brains and computers meet

117

Hydrogen and the race to net zero

118

A New Volcanic Era?

119

Understanding Flood Forecasting

120

Space Exploration

121

12 days of Christmas - science version

122

The Science of the South Pole

123

Biggest COP in history

124

Vagrant Birds

125

Finding Tunnels

126

UK Covid-19 Inquiry

127

Iceland Volcano

128

Loss and damages for vulnerable countries

129

Metal Mines

130

Forever chemicals

131

White phosphorus

132

Tumbling down the rabbit hole of assembly theory

133

Life beyond Earth

134

The state of nature in the UK

135

Why is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rowing back on climate pledges?

136

The halfway point for sustainable development

137

What’s the cost of invasive species?

138

How will climate change affect where we can live?

139

What makes a healthy river?

140

Why do we want to go back to the Moon?

141

Time is still ticking for the Amazon

142

Reality check: carbon capture and storage

143

Battles with flames

144

The wide-ranging effects of climate change

145

How social media can affect the health of teenagers

146

Mapping the universe

147

Heat and health

148

The science of sound

149

The Kakhovka dam and global food security

150

An ocean of opportunities

151

AI and human extinction

152

The benefits and problems of eDNA

153

Science in the making

154

Can we prevent natural disasters?

155

Wild Britain

156

70th anniversary of the discovery of DNA’s structure

157

Rocket Launch Pollution

158

Negotiation

159

Recycling

160

Net Zero

161

Covid – missing link found?

162

Sweet Science

163

Science superpower?

164

Covid leaks and conspiracies

165

Antarctic Ice Special

166

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

167

Abundant energy

168

Exploring the New Environmental Improvement Plan

169

Vegetarian school dinners

170

Towards Net Zero

171

Chatbot plagiarism

172

The UK's first satellite launch

173

Game changers

174

A Scientifically Superior Christmas Dinner

175

Cancer cure, Strep A research and hopes for biodiversity

176

Biodiversity

177

Killer smog

178

Science funding

179

Climate science and politics

180

COP27

181

Monkeypox

182

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

183

The BBC at 100

184

Avian flu

185

Coronavirus - new variants

186

Fracking Science

187

Science collaborations – with Russia

188

Is the James Webb Space Telescope too good?

189

Ancient Amputation

190

Dealing with drought

191

Return of the ozone hole

192

A Possible Sequel to the Dinosaur Armageddon

193

Amplified Arctic Amplification and Microclot Clues to Post-Viral Disease

194

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

195

Heatwave: the consequences

196

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

197

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

198

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

199

10 Years of the Higgs Boson

200

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

201

Inside Sentience

202

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

203

A Reign of Science

204

Monkeypox, Pompeii aDNA, and Elephant Mourning Videos

205

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

206

Running Rings Around Matter

207

Precious Metals, Earlier Eggs, and Meaningful Meteorites

208

The Ebb and Flow of the Tidal Power Revolution

209

Building Better Engagement

210

A Trip-Switch for Depression?

211

Declining Data, Climate Deadlines and the Day the Dinosaurs Died

212

How can the UK get to zero carbon?

213

Racial inequality in UK science

214

Global food security during Ukraine conflict

215

High Seas treaty talks and discoveries from the deep

216

Cyber frontlines in Ukraine

217

World’s largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye

218

COVID-19: Beginnings... and endings?

219

Fusion energy smashes world record

220

The Continuing Story of the Nuclear Waste Bill

221

Predicting Long Covid, and the Global Toll of Antimicrobial Resistance

222

The 'perfect' depth for a destructive eruption

223

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

224

Deep ocean exploration

225

A new space age?

226

The Origin of Celtic Culture in Britain?

227

The James Webb Space Telescope

228

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

229

When Pandemics Collide

230

Malaria: what's in it for the mosquito?

231

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

232

Propane: Keeping Your Cool as the World Warms Around You

233

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

234

Atmospheric Pollutants and Where to Find Them

235

The Possible Impact of false-negative PCR Tests

236

Early Alzheimer's Alert

237

Surprising choice for Nobel prizes in a pandemic?

238

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

239

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

240

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

241

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

242

Rugby and the brain

243

Window to solve pandemic origins closing

244

Mammoth Journey

245

IPCC report - extreme weather events

246

Bees and multiple pesticide exposure

247

Covid 19 – reaching the unvaccinated

248

A life-changing database

249

Covid19 - should we test everybody ?

250

Covid and our ancient ancestors

251

Gene editing gets real

252

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

253

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

254

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

255

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

256

Human use of plants beyond the limits of history.

257

Blood Clot Cure, Synthetic Fuels and Coal Mine Heat Pumps

258

Microplastics in UK river beds

259

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

260

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

261

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

262

Blood clots, grieving and the emotion of screams

263

Disobedient particles, noisy gorillas, sharks and fictional languages

264

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

265

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

266

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

267

China's green growth plan

268

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

269

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

270

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

271

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

272

Putting a number on biodiversity

273

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

274

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

275

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

276

Vaccine Dosing and Biodiversity Soundscape Monitoring

277

Brian Cox and Alice Roberts on a decade of extraordinary science

278

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

279

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

280

Future risk planning; Millennium Seed Bank; Urban trees

281

Protein folding; Hyabusa sample return; Holiday Covid testing

282

26/11/2020

283

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

284

mRNA vaccinations; bacterial space miners; Artemis accords

285

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

286

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

287

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

288

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

289

08/10/2020

290

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

291

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

292

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

293

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

294

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

295

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

296

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

297

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

298

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

299

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

300

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

301

Science Fraud & Bias, Immunity to COVID-19

302

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

303

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

304

The Human Genome Project's 20th Anniversary

305

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

306

Engineering out of lockdown and should we castrate male dogs?

307

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

308

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

309

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

310

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

311

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

312

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

313

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

314

Lockdown lessons for climate change and the carbon neutral Cumbrian coal mine

315

Testing for asymptomatic coronavirus carriers, Human Cell Atlas, and invasive parakeets

316

Coronavirus: Models & being ‘led by the science’; Mars500 isolation tips; Kids’ science - singing glasses

317

Coronavirus - Lockdown efficacy; viral testing; surface survival; dog walking safety

318

TB vaccination to replace culling in badgers; Neil Shubin on the wonders of evolution

319

Biology of the new coronavirus

320

Banning lead shot for hunting; UK Fireball Network and Extremely thin gold

321

The Big Compost Experiment; Using AI to screen for new antibiotics; Science of slapstick

322

Coronavirus questions; HMS Challenger and ocean acidification; Sean Carroll's quantum world

323

Ordnance Survey - Britain's 220-year-old tech company; Launching synthetic voices and personality test

324

Solar Orbiter launch; Mutational signatures in cancer; paleo-oncology

325

Coronavirus update, Typhoid Mary and 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica

326

Coronavirus outbreak in China; Genetic diseases in Amish communities and getting an Egyptian mummy to speak

327

Reproducibility crisis in science; Aeolus wind-measuring satellite; electric cars

328

Australian bush fires; Veganuary and LIGO

329

The hidden history in our DNA - Part 2 - Travel and Culture

330

The hidden history in our DNA - Part 1 - Sex and Disease

331

Ten years of Zooniverse; what happened to volcano Anak Krakatau and visualising maths

332

Earliest hunting scene cave painting; animal domestication syndrome

333

Global Carbon Emissions; Parker Solar Probe and simulating swaying buildings

334

What's the problem with palm oil and should we be supporting sustainably grown oil? Virtual reality skin

335

Noise pollution and wildlife; No till farming; Cornwall's geothermal heat

336

Soils and floods, Air pollution and ultra-low emission zones, detecting the drug Spice

337

Fracking moratorium; Bloodhound; Big Compost Experiment; transit of Mercury

338

African genomes sequenced; Space weather; sports head injuries

339

Organic farming emissions; Staring at seagulls; Salt and dementia

340

Ebola model, Partula snails, Malaria origin

341

Extinction Rebellion, UK net zero emissions and climate change; Nobel Prizes

342

HIV protective gene paper retraction, Imaging ancient Herculaneum scrolls, Bill Bryson's The Body

343

Oceans, ice and climate change; Neolithic baby bottles; Caroline Criado-Perez wins RS Book Prize

344

MOSAiC Arctic super-expedition, Likely extinction of the Bahama nuthatch, Tim Smedley's book on air pollution

345

Model embryos from stem cells, Paul Steinhardt's book on impossible crystals, Mother Thames

346

Inventing GPS, Carbon nanotube computer, Steven Strogatz and Monty Lyman discuss calculus and skin

347

Amazon fires, Royal Society Book Prize shortlist announced, John Gribben on quantum physics

348

UK's black squirrels' genetic heritage; nuclear fusion in the UK and the Royal Society's science book prize

349

UK power cut, Huge dinosaur find in Wyoming, Micro-plastics in Arctic snow

350

Making the UK's dams safe, AI spots fake smiles, How many trees should we be planting?

351

Lovelock at 100; Hydrothermal vents and antibiotic resistance in the environment

352

False positives in genetic test kits, Impact of fishing on ocean sharks, Sex-change fish

353

Turing on the new £50 note, Moon landing on the radio, 25 years since Shoemaker-Levy comet

354

Earliest modern human skull, Analysing moon rocks, Viruses lurking in our genomes

355

X-Rays on Mercury, Monkey Tools, Music of Molecules, AI Drivers

356

Global Food Security, Reactive Use-By Labels, Origins of the Potato

357

Rinderpest destruction, Noise and birdsong, Science as entertainment

358

Net-Zero carbon target, Science Policy Under Thatcher, Screen time measures

359

CCR5 Mutation Effects, The Surrey Earthquake Swarm, Animal Emotions

360

How maths underpins science

361

New CFC emissions, Cannabis and the Environment, The Noisy Cocktail Party, Automated Face Recognition

362

Hubble Not-So Constant, Synthetic E. Coli, The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt

363

Forensic science provision, optimal garden watering strategy, and a mystery knee bone

364

Sex, gender and sport - the Caster Semenya case and the latest Denisovan discovery

365

Thought-to-speech machine, City Nature Challenge, Science of Storytelling

366

Notre-Dame fire, Reviving pig brains, ExoMars, Evolution of faces

367

Visualising a black hole, Homo luzonensis, Two ways to overcome antimicrobial resistance

368

Cretaceous catastrophe fossilised, LIGO and Virgo, Corals, Forensic shoeprint database

369

UK pollinating insect numbers, Tracking whales using barnacles, Sleep signals

370

Where next World Wide Web? Space rocks and worms

371

Rules and ethics of genome editing, Gender, sex and sport, Hog roasts at Stonehenge

372

A cure for HIV? Sleepy flies, Secrets of the Fukushima disaster, Science fact checking

373

Falling carbon and rising methane; Unsung heroes at the Crick

374

Mars - rovers v humans? Forests and carbon, Ethiopian bush crow

375

Insect decline, Gut microbiome, Geomagnetic switching

376

Sea Level Rise, Equine Flu, Generator Bricks, Iberian Genes

377

Sprinting Neanderthals, Geodynamo, Spreading Sneezes and Dying Hares

378

Ultima Thule, Dry January, Periodic Table

379

Gene-edited twins, Placenta organoids in a dish, When the last leaves drop

380

Mars InSight mission, Detecting dark matter, Redefining the kilogram, Bovine TB

381

Bovine TB and badger culling, Shrimp hoover CSI, Shark-skin and Turing

382

Oldest cave picture; the Anthropocene under London; a new scientist for the £50 note

383

Repairing potholes, Ozone hole, Internet of hives, Drugs from fingerprints

384

Science and Brexit, Antibiotic livestock growth promoters, Bepicolombo goes to Mercury

385

Old Dogs and Physics in Space

386

IPCC report, Cairngorms Connect project, grass pea, the Sun exhibition at Science Museum

387

Nobel Prizes - Hayabusa 2 latest - IPCC meeting - North Pole science

388

Hyabusa 2 at Ryugu, deadly 1918 flu pandemic; WW2 bombing and ionosphere, teenage brain

389

Science of Addiction

390

First human drawing, Cycling genes, Oden Arctic expedition, Hello World

391

Complexity in Biology

392

Electronic brain probe; Rural stream biodiversity; Arctic weather research trip; Science book prize

393

Cavendish banana survival; Guillemot egg shape; Unexpected Truth About Animals; Tambora's rainstorm

394

Capturing greenhouse gas, Beating heart failure with beetroot, Why elephants don't get cancer, Exactly - a history of precision

395

New Horizons' next mission, Helium at 150, The Beautiful Cure, Oden arctic expedition

396

Parker solar probe, Diversity in the lab, Royal Society book prize, Arctic circle weather

397

Liquid water on Mars, Early embryo development, Earth Biogenome Project, Marine wilderness

398

Peatbog wildfires, Coral acoustics, Magdalena Skipper, Fuelling long-term space travel

399

Out of Africa, Predicting future heatwaves, Virtual reality molecules, Life in the dark

400

Northern white rhino preservation, Deep sea earthquake detection, Twitter's rare Heuchera discovery, Human roars

401

Hyabusa mission; ProtoDUNE neutrino detector; Caledonian crow skills; Koala microbiome

402

The Large Hadron Collider Upgrade, Voltaglue, Cambridge Zoology Museum, Francis Willughby

403

Antarctic melt speeds up, Antarctica's future, Cryo-acoustics, Narwhals

404

Dinosaur auction, Who owns the genes of the ocean life, Cancer immunotherapy

405

Hay Festival

406

CO2 and rice, Underground farming, Ancient interstellar asteroid, Microplastics air pollution

407

Face Recognition, ‘Thug’ plants, Cancer Funding Inequalities, Feynman’s 100th birthday

408

Rat eradication; elephant talk; the rise of the dinosaurs; physics of snooker

409

Antarctic, Kew, Paleogenomics, Sea birds

410

Human Consciousness: Could a brain in a dish become sentient?

411

Plastic-eating bacteria, Foam mattresses for crops, The evolved life aquatic, The Double Helix

412

Pesticides in British Farming

413

Stephen Hawking Tribute

414

Genes and education, John Goodenough, Caring bears and hunting

415

Data Scraping

416

Buzz kill

417

Russian Spy Poisoning

418

Weird Weather?

419

Science after Brexit

420

Shipping air pollution; Cheddar Man; Millirobots in the body;Dog brain training

421

Democracy in Space

422

Scientists on Trial

423

Did typhoid kill the Aztecs, DNA stored in Bitcoin, Glow-in-the-dark plants and levitating humans

424

African swine fever, Oil spill update, CRISPR gene editing, Rat eradication in New Zealand, Chimp kin recognition

425

Sanchi oil tanker, Gut gas-monitoring pill and Chimpanzee portraits

426

Tabby's Star, Space 2018, Mosquito sounds, C diff and food additive link

427

Ancient DNA and Human Evolution

428

Antisense RNA therapy, Fossils vs Trump, Printing mini-kidneys, Electric eel power

429

The Future of Coral Reefs, Little Foot, Arthur C Clarke

430

Trophy hunting, Gene drives, Nuclear lightning, Peregrine falcons and drones

431

Prehistoric Strong Women, Semi-synthetic Life, Listener Feedback, Artificial Superintelligence

432

Interstellar visitor, Svante Paabo, Synthetic biology, Plight of the Axolotl

433

Can we forecast earthquakes?, Britain's space race rocket Skylark, Francis Galton

434

Boy gets New Skin, The York Gospels, Stephen Hawking's Thesis

435

Climate Change and Health; Moth Snow Storm Feedback; Whale Brain Evolution; Pharoah's Serpent

436

Insects disappearing, DNA Biosensor, Dog faces, Bandit dinosaur

437

Colliding Neutron Stars, Krakatoa, Centigrade vs Celsius

438

HiQuake, Plate Tectonics@50, Sonic Weapon Puzzle, The Chinese Typewriter

439

Gravity wave breakthrough, The antibiotic pipeline, Microbial waste recycling, Fausto - an AI opera

440

Cassini's finale; Science and Technology Select Committee; Crick's lecture; Cave acoustics

441

Farewell to Cassini, the epic 20 year mission to Saturn

442

North Korea Bomb Tests, Warming Antarctic Sea Life, the Microbiome, Cuckoo Chuckle

443

Noxious haze over south coast; In Pursuit of Memory book; technosphere; Big Wasp Survey

444

Killer robots; Myths and superstitions and conservation; Science book prize nominee - Cordelia Fine; Taxidermy

445

Antarctica's volcanoes, science book prize nominee - Mark O'Connell, US solar eclipse and 40 years of NASA's Voyager mission

446

European heatwave and climate change, Eugenia Cheng, Next generation batteries for electric cars, Joseph Hooker exhibition.

447

Gene-editing human embryos, Spaceman's eyes, Science book prize, Sexual selection in salmon

448

Cod fisheries, Our connection to nature, Domestic electricity and Gamma ray bursts

449

Genetics and privacy, Global plastic, Great Ape Dictionary, Ocean Discovery X Prize

450

Genetic testing; Pugs on treadmills; Frankenstein

451

Neonics dispute, Hygenic bees, Hip-hop MRI

452

Sex bias in biology, Engineering prize, Olympic bats, Angry Chef

453

Forensics Centre in Dundee; D'Arcy Thompson centenary; Scottish science adviser; Coffee and climate

454

Science in Fire Prevention

455

Early Humans Were Even Earlier Than We Thought

456

The Importance of Basic Research

457

Sherpas - dolphin rescue - quantum computing - hot lavas

458

Childhood cancers - Ghana telescope - Nano-listening device for cells - Ancient whales

459

Violins - Social networks and cliques in great tits and snow monkeys - Exploring DNA and art

460

The moral brain, stem cell developments, ancient DNA in cave dirt, mangrove forest

461

Homo naledi, First humans in America, Dark matter detector, New theory of dark matter

462

Cassini’s death, scrapping diesel, weather balloon, satellites monitoring volcanos

463

23andMe Genetic Sequencing, Human Knockout genes, Coral Bleaching

464

Creation of island Britain, Sleep gene, Mary Kelly forensics, Global Tree Search survey

465

Climate change and extreme weather; Primate brain size; Earthquake forecasting; Planet 9

466

Comet 67P images; Etna eruption; Brain navigation; Octopus intelligence

467

Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, Aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones

468

Rise of the Robots: 3. Where is my mind?

469

Cells and Celluloid: Aliens on Film

470

Rise of the Robots: 2. More human than human

471

Rise of the Robots: 1. The history of things to come

472

Earth's Earliest Life, The Benefits of Pollution, Sexuality and Science and New ideas on Evolution

473

The perils of fake science news, The neanderthal inside us, What The Beatles really sang - statistically speaking

474

Science and cyber security, Dinosaur babies, Winston Churchill and level crossings

475

Measuring human impact on earth, Awards for engineers, Sounds of space junk.

476

Wildlife trafficking, New quantum computers, Ancient bird beaks, Glassblowing.

477

Crime, volcanoes, ghosts and how we are influenced by the genes of unrelated others

478

Antarctic science rescue, Killing cancer with viruses, Measuring wind from space and the Last man on the moon

479

The perils of explaining science, Living to 500, What's good for your teeth and The future of stargazing

480

RIP Granny the oldest Orca - Graphene + Silly Putty - Moving a Giant Magnet - Space in 2017

481

Listeners' Questions

482

Inuits and Denisovans, Sex and woodlice, Peace through particle physics, Caspar the octopus in peril?

483

Rock traces of life on Mars, Desert fireball network, Gut microbes and Parkinson's Disease, Science Museum's maths exhibition

484

Alzheimers research, Lucy in the Scanner, Smart bandages, From supernovae to Hollywood

485

Predator bacteria therapy, New money for UK science, Stick-on stethoscope, Taming fears in the brain scanner

486

Does Pluto have an ocean, Antarctica's oldest ice, Meat emissions, Swifts fly ten months non-stop

487

Climate change questions, Animal computer interaction, Sounds and meaning across world's languages

488

Italy's quakes, Ebola virus, Accidental rocket fuel, China in space

489

Making mozzies safe with a microbe, CO2 at 400 ppm, Chixculub crater rocks, Why Mars Lander failed

490

HFC Ban; Human Cell Atlas; Origin of Hunting with Dogs

491

Life on Mars? Quantum Gravity. The deep origins of bird song

492

Microbead impact, Remote animal logging, Royal Society book prize, Surgewatch

493

Proxima b exoplanet, The Hunt for Vulcan, East Antarctic lakes, Deep sea shark hunting

494

Autonomous cars, Bees and neonicotinoids, Marden Henge, Royal Society Book Prize

495

Blow to the LHC "bump", Crow intelligence, Robot mudskippers, Royal Society book prize

496

Signs of life on planets, Royal Society Book Prize, Queen Bee control, Galactic Prom 29

497

Dinosaur extinction, Neanderthals in Gibraltar, Music appreciation, A year of New Horizons

498

Juno, Space debris, Fake tumours, Risky plants

499

Juno, Nanotech art conservation, Robots fix the city, Eel conservation

500

National Insect Week, Venus' electric field, Green mining, Wimbledon grass science

501

More gravitational waves; Ocean floor mapping; Selfish Gene 40th; Spoonies

502

Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance

503

Fixing the Future

504

GM plants; Svalbard Seed Vault; Directed Evolution; Dolphin Snot

505

Climate Change, State of the World's Plants, Antibiotic Resistance, Telephone Metadata, Bat Detective

506

Genetics and education, Eyam plague, Pint of science, Labradors and chocolate

507

Human embryos, Transit of Mercury, Fishackathon, Fat labradors

508

Chernobyl, Drones, Tree crickets, Cern

509

EU membership and UK science, Quantum games, Fixing genes

510

Breakthrough Starshot, Moon mining, QB50, Solar Q&A

511

Air pollution monitoring, Britain breathing, Tracking Hannibal

512

Solar farm, Gravity machine, Kakapo

513

Flu, Coffee yeasts, Wave machine, Cochlear implants

514

Recovering lost memories, Storks eat junk food, Oldest pine fossil, Spring flowering

515

Gain-of-function research, Mindfulness, Women in science, Snake locomotion

516

UK's longest-running cohort study, The Brain prize, Hairy genetics

517

UK science and the EU, Sex of organs, Artificial colon, Gorillas call when eating

518

Gravitational Waves, UK Spaceport, Big Brains and Extinction Risk, Conservation in Papua New Guinea

519

Gravitational Waves Special

520

UK pollinators' food, Brain implant, Holograms, Lunar 9

521

Zika, Penguins, Erratum, Fossil fish

522

Ancient Britons' DNA, Concorde's 40th Anniversary, Giant dinosaur, New planet?

523

The 100,000 Genome Project, Stem cell doping, Nuclear waste, Dinosaur sex

524

El Nino Special

525

31/12/2015

526

New Horizons Pluto update; friendly predatory bacteria; Christmas in the lab; human ancestry

527

Tim Peake's mission to the ISS, Spaceman Chris Hadfield, AGU round-up, Air pollution, Human Evolution at the NHM

528

Flooding, Scientific modelling, Magnetoreception, Escalators

529

Science funding, Carbon capture storage, Graphene

530

Ancient farmers' genomes, Alice at Cern, Astrophysics questions

531

Antarctic ice sheet instability, Groundwater, Accents, Fluorescent coral

532

Sex-change tree, Pluto's cryovolcanoes, Sellafield's plutonium, Ant super-organisms

533

Grid cells and time, Boole, How your brain shapes your life

534

Oxygen on comet 67P; Bees and antimicrobial drugs; Reproducibility of science experiments; Reintroduction of beavers

535

Animal experiments, Bees and diesel, Sense Ocean, Readability of IPCC report

536

Time Travel in Science and Cinema

537

Ethiopian genome, Coral nutrients, The hunt for gravitational waves, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

538

Write on Kew festival at Kew Gardens, Preserving global biodiversity

539

Pluto images, Space elevator, Insect migration, Imagination app

540

Homo Naledi, New spacesuit, Quantum biology, A possible cure for motion sickness

541

El Nino, Sphagnum moss and peatlands, Inside Cern, Measuring air pollution with iPhones

542

20/08/2015

543

Scottish GM ban, Earth's magnetic field, OCD, Birth of a new galaxy

544

Pluto's surface, Increased Arctic ice in 2013, Linking brains together, Signals of fertility

545

Pluto: New Horizons

546

Intrusive memories, Silent aircraft, Nuclear fusion, Pluto

547

Aphid-repelling wheat, National Institute for Bioscience, Global map of smell, Parrot mimics

548

Malaria drug, Listener feedback, Imaging the singing voice, Classifying human species

549

Stars, Fracking, Ice Cores, Drunken Chimps

550

Origins of life, Earthquakes in London, Frog plague, Ancient pollen

551

Self-adapting robots, Artificial intelligence in medicine, Ageing healthily

552

El Nino, Echolocation, Seasons, Snakes

553

Seasonal Variation in Immunity, Chemosynthesis, Role of the ISS, Storing Digital Data in DNA

554

Nepalese Earthquake, Monkey Hands, Maritime Light Pollution, Light in Bacteria

555

Healthy Guts; Future High Speed Trading; Body Clocks and Colour; William Smith's Geology Map

556

Hubble Space Telescope at 25

557

Legacy of Messenger, Computer Touch, AI and Traumatic Forgetting, Stained Glass Restoration

558

Invasive Species, Coral Seaview Survey, Evolution of the Brain, A New Virtual Reality

559

Genetic Map of the British Isles, Drones for Conservation, Lab Photosynthesis, Solar Eclipse

560

Large Hadron Collider Run Two, Flooding, Nasa's Biggest Rocket, Violin Evolution

561

Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; Women in science; Ceres

562

Artificial Intelligence, Desalination, History of Forensics, Music from Cells

563

Alzheimer's Disease, False Memory, Diamond Light Source, Twins in Space

564

Earth's Core; What Can Chemistry Do for Us?; Ocean Acidification; Darwin Day

565

Goshawk, Cosmic Renaissance, Carl Djerassi and Charles Townes

566

Climate change belief; Anthropocene era; Eyes on the sea; Origins of multicellular life

567

GMOs; International Year of Light; Coral health

568

International Year of Soils

569

Venus mission, Science highlights for 2015, Sonotweezers, Tsunami 10 years on

570

Listeners' Science Questions

571

Microplastics; Holey Ice; Vesalius; Overeating

572

Water on Comets; DNA in Space; Sounds of the Ocean; Science in Fashion

573

Orion Launch; Fake Mars trip; XDNA; Richard the Third's skeleton

574

Campylobacter in Chicken; Artificial Intelligence Guru Demis Hassabis; Sexology; Lucy

575

Comet landing detects organics molecules; Lunar Mission One; Biological warfare

576

Rosetta; Thought-controlled genes; Biophonic Life; Arecibo message 40 years on

577

Science of ageing; Microneedles; Firelab; Rosetta; Scientific authorship

578

The Making of the Moon

579

Hobbit; Genetics of height; Solar science; Snails

580

Ebola; Ada Lovelace Day; Space Weather

581

Nobel Prizes 2014; Gauge; Genetics and Diabetes; UK Fungus Day

582

Women, Science and the Royal Society; Open Access Research

583

Cosmic inflation latest; Indian space success; Science and language; Wax Venus

584

European ancestry; Cern is 60; Graphene plasters; Penguins

585

Jack the Ripper; Future of Scottish science

586

Bardarbunga volcano; Geology in Minecraft; Synthesising opioids; Ammonia

587

Manipulating mouse memory; London pollution; Nature of knowing; Snail fur

588

TB in the New World; Trusting Wikipedia; Shipwreck of the London; @LegoAcademics

589

Anaesthesia; Chilean earthquakes; Strange weather; Jellyfish

590

New dinosaur; GM chickens; Lightning; Rosetta; Diatoms

591

ExpeRimental; Rosetta; MOOCs

592

Science's fascination with the face

593

A special programme on plants and their pollinators, poisons and pests

594

Behavioural profiling at airports; Light and colour in art; Hadrian's Wall; Cassini

595

Informed consent, El Nino, Gravitational Waves, Cloud cover

596

Longitude Prize Winner; Solar cells; New species; Fiji fisherwomen; Physics questions

597

Antarctic Invaders; Patents; Longitude Challenges for Water and Antibiotics

598

Turing test; World Cup exo-skeleton; Plant cyborgs; Music hooks

599

Moving Mountains; Invasive Species; Football Stickers

600

Women scientists; Mapping the ocean floor; Amplituhedron

601

Longitude Prize 2014; Dementia; Matter from light; Coastal deposition

602

Antarctic melt; brain enhancing devices, atomic clocks and anti-bat moth sounds

603

Colin Pillinger; Fire? Artificial DNA

604

Mice & Men; Fuel from CO2; fRMI; Insect calls

605

Y chromosome; Everest avalanche; Aphid survey; Longitude

606

Sperm and egg; Dogs; Automatic Facebook; Invasive species

607

Whales; Dark Matter; Falling; Arty brains

608

Calorie Restriction; Moon Age; Mars Yard; IPCC.

609

Fracking; Purple GM tomatoes; Bionic humans; Shark attacks

610

Cosmic inflation; LISA; Photonic radar; Bird stress camera; Water research; Taxidermy

611

Tracking planes; Peer review; Mega-virus; Astronaut

612

LG - Chemical weapons, Turtles, Tech for wildlife, Climate

613

Brain Machine Interfaces; Question on Gay Genes; Studying Drinking Behaviour

614

Bees; Whales; Pain; Gay genes

615

Whales from space; Flood emails; SUYI JET Lasers; CERN's new tunnel; Discoveries exhibition

616

Engineering for floods; Neanderthal genes; Switching senses; Genes in Space game

617

Neanderthals; Plague; Wind Tunnel; Music Timing; Stem Cells

618

Higgs Boson; Neutrinos; Antarctic echo locator; Rainforest fungi; Alabama rot

619

Personal genetics kits; Persister cells; Earthquake mapping; Scorpions

620

Antarctica weather and climate change; GM Fish Oils; Melanin Fossils; Time Travel

621

Ancient Human Occupation of Britain

622

Bacteriophages; Breath-detecting disease; Our bees electric and DNA Barcoding

623

Antimicrobial soap; GAIA; Stone-age jellybones; Antarctica

624

Horsemeat; NanoSims; Early bacteria; Crystallography

625

Badger culls; Douglas Mawson; Plastics; Uptalk

626

Therapeutic hypothermia; Cameras on Gaia; Methane; Wine microbiota

627

Bird Atlas; Flywheels; Energy capture; Science lessons for MPs

628

DNA to ID typhoon victims; Volcanic ash; Hope for red squirrels; Robogut

629

Personal genome; Solar cells and music; Asteroids; Alfred Russel Wallace

630

Moon dust; Electro-ceuticals; Soil and climate change; Dogs' tails

631

Nuclear Waste; Exoplanets; BBC time and pips, Synthetic Biology Olympics

632

Genetics and education; Golden Rice inventor; Chimp Chatter and Lightning Lab

633

US shutdown; Nobels; New climate science; Airport heart attack headlines

634

Menopause; IPCC; Fracking feedback; Particle accelerator; Zombie chemicals

635

Fracking FAQs; Fingerprint feedback; Lipstick forensics; Snake hook

636

Chemical weapons; Crowd-sourcing weather; Fingerprint ID; Dino drill

637

Stem cell news; Science practicals; Phantom head; Sewage power

638

Fukushima ice wall; Martian menus; Science practicals; Eye tracker

639

Research bias; Sniffer dogs; Lasers; Roadkill

640

Artificial reefs; Scanning beehives; Ape feet; NMR

641

Universal flu vaccine; Science games; AllTrials; Penguin camera

642

Lab-grown leather; Goal line technology; Bacteria outrage; Marine buoy

643

Crash risk; Mary Rose bacteria; History of Science; Greenwich telescope

644

2D supermaterials; Inside an MRI; Antarctic architecture

645

Animal research; Astronaut selection; Show us your instrument

646

Bioscience to bioweapons; Synthetic diamonds; Stem cell transplants

647

Bovine TB; Coral sunscreen; Space junk