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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Dec 16, 2021 · 33 min
The James Webb Space Telescope
A new giant space telescope that will show us the first stars that shone in the universe.
Dec 9, 2021 · 30 min
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.
Dec 2, 2021 · 41 min
When Pandemics Collide
Did the omicron variant incubate in an immunocompromised patient?
Nov 25, 2021 · 36 min
Malaria: what's in it for the mosquito?
Gaia Vince finds out what benefit the malaria parasite brings to blood feeding mosquitoes.
Nov 18, 2021 · 37 min
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?
Nov 11, 2021 · 38 min
Propane: Keeping Your Cool as the World Warms Around You
Can propane prevent air conditioning becoming a bigger burden on our heating planet?
Nov 4, 2021 · 34 min
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.
Oct 28, 2021 · 33 min
Atmospheric Pollutants and Where to Find Them
Do Ultra Low Emission Zones in Cities Work?
Oct 21, 2021 · 38 min
The Possible Impact of false-negative PCR Tests
False-negative PCRs, World Weather Attribution Science, and Metascience Studies.
Oct 14, 2021 · 32 min
Early Alzheimer's Alert
A simple test for the earliest stages of Alzheimer's.
Oct 7, 2021 · 31 min
Surprising choice for Nobel prizes in a pandemic?
Nobel prizes; BepiColombo snaps Mercury; carbon take up by old oaks; mystery illnesses.
Sep 30, 2021 · 33 min
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
Sep 23, 2021 · 31 min
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.
Sep 16, 2021 · 31 min
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.
Sep 9, 2021 · 29 min
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?
Sep 2, 2021 · 29 min
Rugby and the brain
New clues on how tackles and knocks impact the brains of professional rugby players.
Aug 26, 2021 · 28 min
Window to solve pandemic origins closing
Is time running out to trace the origins of the pandemic?
Aug 19, 2021 · 30 min
Mammoth Journey
Tusk reveals the story of a woolly mammoth's 70,000 kilometre journey
Aug 12, 2021 · 30 min
IPCC report - extreme weather events
Climate change and extreme weather events.
Aug 5, 2021 · 31 min
Bees and multiple pesticide exposure
Pesticides more than double the trouble for bees