BBC Inside Science

BBC Radio 4

A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.

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663 episodes
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Oct 13, 2022 · 28 min
Is the James Webb Space Telescope too good?
Is the James Webb Space Telescope too good?
Oct 6, 2022 · 28 min
Ancient Amputation
How hunter gatherers in Borneo successfully performed surgery thousands of years ago.
Sep 29, 2022 · 31 min
Dealing with drought
Dealing with drought, satellite clutter and mucus evolution.
Sep 22, 2022 · 27 min
Return of the ozone hole
Australian fires have impacted the ozone layer.
Sep 15, 2022 · 30 min
A Possible Sequel to the Dinosaur Armageddon
Did the Chicxulub meteor that did for the dinosaurs have a smaller cousin?
Sep 8, 2022 · 27 min
Amplified Arctic Amplification and Microclot Clues to Post-Viral Disease
Arctic warming around four times faster than previously thought.
Sep 1, 2022 · 31 min
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.
Aug 25, 2022 · 34 min
Heatwave: the consequences
What are the consequences of the recent UK heatwave for us, plants and our energy supply.
Aug 18, 2022 · 27 min
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.
Aug 11, 2022 · 27 min
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?
Aug 4, 2022 · 27 min
Robotic Thumbs, Mending Bones with Magnets, and the State of Science this Summer
A trip round the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2022.
Jul 28, 2022 · 35 min
10 Years of the Higgs Boson
July 2022 marks 10 years since the Higgs Boson was confirmed to exist. What next?
Jul 21, 2022 · 30 min
Engineering Around Mercury, Science Festivals, and The Rise of The Mammals
How hard is it to get to Mercury and why are we going?
Jul 14, 2022 · 28 min
Inside Sentience
How could we spot a synthetic sentience even if we had made one?
Jul 7, 2022 · 33 min
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.
Jun 30, 2022 · 38 min
A Reign of Science
Marnie Chesterton and guests take a walkabout through 70 years of science.
Jun 23, 2022 · 35 min
Monkeypox, Pompeii aDNA, and Elephant Mourning Videos
Why are non-African monkeypox cases causing concern?
Jun 16, 2022 · 28 min
Buried Mars Landers, Freezing Species, and Low-Tide Archaeology
Why Nasa's Marsquake monitor is powering down for good.
Jun 9, 2022 · 28 min
Running Rings Around Matter
A remarkable image of the supermassive black hole at the middle of the Milky Way.
Jun 2, 2022 · 32 min
Precious Metals, Earlier Eggs, and Meaningful Meteorites
How bacteria could soon harvest precious metals from your old phone.