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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May 5, 2016 · 28 min
Human embryos, Transit of Mercury, Fishackathon, Fat labradors
Scientists can keep human embryos alive for longer. Should they?
Apr 28, 2016 · 32 min
Chernobyl, Drones, Tree crickets, Cern
Have physicists at Cern found a new particle?
Apr 21, 2016 · 27 min
EU membership and UK science, Quantum games, Fixing genes
What are the consequences for UK science of leaving the EU? Adam investigates.
Apr 14, 2016 · 28 min
Breakthrough Starshot, Moon mining, QB50, Solar Q&A
Will a fleet of tiny craft, pushed by lasers, sail to a star?
Apr 7, 2016 · 27 min
Air pollution monitoring, Britain breathing, Tracking Hannibal
Dung Roman: the historical mess of Hannibal's elephant march may have been cleared up.
Mar 31, 2016 · 31 min
Solar farm, Gravity machine, Kakapo
As Europe's largest floating solar farm goes online, Adam Rutherford discusses solar power
Mar 24, 2016 · 27 min
Flu, Coffee yeasts, Wave machine, Cochlear implants
Predicting how the flu virus mutates could help make better vaccines to fight it.
Mar 17, 2016 · 27 min
Recovering lost memories, Storks eat junk food, Oldest pine fossil, Spring flowering
Lost memories can be recovered in mice. Are there implications for Alzheimer's patients?
Mar 10, 2016 · 27 min
Gain-of-function research, Mindfulness, Women in science, Snake locomotion
Tracey Logan investigates whether there is some science that is just too dangerous to do.
Mar 3, 2016 · 28 min
UK's longest-running cohort study, The Brain prize, Hairy genetics
Babies from the longest-running cohort study turn 70 this month.
Feb 25, 2016 · 27 min
UK science and the EU, Sex of organs, Artificial colon, Gorillas call when eating
What does a Brexit mean for UK science?
Feb 18, 2016 · 27 min
Gravitational Waves, UK Spaceport, Big Brains and Extinction Risk, Conservation in Papua New Guinea
Adam Rutherford puts listeners' gravitational wave queries to cosmologist Andrew Pontzen.
Feb 11, 2016 · 27 min
Gravitational Waves Special
Gravitational waves detected - scientists prove Einstein right after 100 years.
Feb 4, 2016 · 27 min
UK pollinators' food, Brain implant, Holograms, Lunar 9
How charting the UK's nectar-providing flowers could help pollinating insects.
Jan 28, 2016 · 28 min
Zika, Penguins, Erratum, Fossil fish
What can science reveal about the Zika virus and microcephaly?
Jan 21, 2016 · 28 min
Ancient Britons' DNA, Concorde's 40th Anniversary, Giant dinosaur, New planet?
Adam Rutherford examines the genetics of ancient Britons and reminisces about Concorde.
Jan 14, 2016 · 28 min
The 100,000 Genome Project, Stem cell doping, Nuclear waste, Dinosaur sex
Adam Rutherford finds out how the 100,000 Genome Project is helping children and families.
Jan 7, 2016 · 27 min
El Nino Special
How the current El Nino event is affecting lives in the UK and around the world.
Dec 31, 2015 · 28 min
31/12/2015
Adam Rutherford and guests answer listeners' science questions.
Dec 24, 2015 · 27 min
New Horizons Pluto update; friendly predatory bacteria; Christmas in the lab; human ancestry
New Horizons Pluto update;friendly predatory bacteria;Christmas in the lab;human ancestry