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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Mar 16, 2017 · 28 min
Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, Aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones
Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones
Mar 15, 2017 · 27 min
Rise of the Robots: 3. Where is my mind?
Adam Rutherford asks if we are ready for artificial intelligences making decisions for us
Mar 9, 2017 · 57 min
Cells and Celluloid: Aliens on Film
With Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock.
Mar 6, 2017 · 28 min
Rise of the Robots: 2. More human than human
Adam Rutherford explores our relationship with contemporary humanoid robots
Mar 3, 2017 · 28 min
Rise of the Robots: 1. The history of things to come
Adam Rutherford explores the role of robots in past societies
Mar 2, 2017 · 29 min
Earth's Earliest Life, The Benefits of Pollution, Sexuality and Science and New ideas on Evolution
The World's oldest sedimentary rocks reveal traces of our earliest ancestors.
Feb 23, 2017 · 28 min
The perils of fake science news, The neanderthal inside us, What The Beatles really sang - statistically speaking
How a woolly story about resurrecting mammoths raises serious questions for medical ethics
Feb 16, 2017 · 28 min
Science and cyber security, Dinosaur babies, Winston Churchill and level crossings
Testing cyber security with science.
Feb 9, 2017 · 28 min
Measuring human impact on earth, Awards for engineers, Sounds of space junk.
Quantifying the impact of humanity on the earth's natural systems.
Feb 2, 2017 · 28 min
Wildlife trafficking, New quantum computers, Ancient bird beaks, Glassblowing.
How measures set up to conserve endangered species are being eroded.
Jan 26, 2017 · 28 min
Crime, volcanoes, ghosts and how we are influenced by the genes of unrelated others
How the genes of unrelated others can influence our health and behaviour.
Jan 19, 2017 · 28 min
Antarctic science rescue, Killing cancer with viruses, Measuring wind from space and the Last man on the moon
Why the British Antarctic science base is being temporarily abandoned.
Jan 12, 2017 · 31 min
The perils of explaining science, Living to 500, What's good for your teeth and The future of stargazing
Why the simplest explanations are not always the best when it comes to science.
Jan 5, 2017 · 33 min
RIP Granny the oldest Orca - Graphene + Silly Putty - Moving a Giant Magnet - Space in 2017
Science mourns the death of the world's oldest killer whale, 'Granny'.
Dec 29, 2016 · 44 min
Listeners' Questions
Adam Rutherford puts listeners' science questions to his team of experts.
Dec 22, 2016 · 28 min
Inuits and Denisovans, Sex and woodlice, Peace through particle physics, Caspar the octopus in peril?
Can Inuits survive the Arctic cold thanks to deep past liaisons with another species?
Dec 8, 2016 · 36 min
Rock traces of life on Mars, Desert fireball network, Gut microbes and Parkinson's Disease, Science Museum's maths exhibition
Could rocks discovered by the Mars rover Spirit contain the hallmarks of ancient life?
Dec 1, 2016 · 33 min
Alzheimers research, Lucy in the Scanner, Smart bandages, From supernovae to Hollywood
How well do we understand Alzheimers disease after the latest drug trial disappointment?
Nov 24, 2016 · 27 min
Predator bacteria therapy, New money for UK science, Stick-on stethoscope, Taming fears in the brain scanner
Can we use predatory bacteria as treatments for antibiotic resistant infections?
Nov 17, 2016 · 28 min
Does Pluto have an ocean, Antarctica's oldest ice, Meat emissions, Swifts fly ten months non-stop
Does Pluto have an ocean under its ice crust?