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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Dec 17, 2015 · 34 min
Tim Peake's mission to the ISS, Spaceman Chris Hadfield, AGU round-up, Air pollution, Human Evolution at the NHM
Astronaut Chris Hadfield gives Tim Peake advice on how to cope in space.
Dec 10, 2015 · 29 min
Flooding, Scientific modelling, Magnetoreception, Escalators
Adam Rutherford asks how models can help to predict floods and improve defences.
Dec 3, 2015 · 32 min
Science funding, Carbon capture storage, Graphene
Adam Rutherford questions the latest government science funding review.
Nov 26, 2015 · 36 min
Ancient farmers' genomes, Alice at Cern, Astrophysics questions
Ancient genome research shows the effect of the introduction of farming to Europe.
Nov 19, 2015 · 27 min
Antarctic ice sheet instability, Groundwater, Accents, Fluorescent coral
Melting Antarctic ice sheet will not lead to as big a sea level rise as previously thought
Nov 12, 2015 · 28 min
Sex-change tree, Pluto's cryovolcanoes, Sellafield's plutonium, Ant super-organisms
Adam Rutherford asks whether Britain's oldest tree has changed sex.
Nov 5, 2015 · 27 min
Grid cells and time, Boole, How your brain shapes your life
Tracey Logan unpicks how people's brains work and discusses maverick scientist Boole.
Oct 29, 2015 · 28 min
Oxygen on comet 67P; Bees and antimicrobial drugs; Reproducibility of science experiments; Reintroduction of beavers
Oxygen detected on comet 67P doesn’t fit with models of early Solar System formation.
Oct 22, 2015 · 27 min
Animal experiments, Bees and diesel, Sense Ocean, Readability of IPCC report
Latest stats shows UK scientists used fewer research animals last year. Or did they?
Oct 15, 2015 · 27 min
Time Travel in Science and Cinema
Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock explore time travel in science and cinema.
Oct 8, 2015 · 27 min
Ethiopian genome, Coral nutrients, The hunt for gravitational waves, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Adam Rutherford meets Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.
Oct 1, 2015 · 27 min
Write on Kew festival at Kew Gardens, Preserving global biodiversity
Adam Rutherford is at Kew Gardens to discuss challenges in preserving global biodiversity.
Sep 24, 2015 · 27 min
Listeners' Science Questions
Adam Rutherford is joined by guests to answer listener questions.
Sep 17, 2015 · 27 min
Pluto images, Space elevator, Insect migration, Imagination app
Adam Rutherford looks at the new photos of Pluto which were beamed back to Earth this week
Sep 10, 2015 · 27 min
Homo Naledi, New spacesuit, Quantum biology, A possible cure for motion sickness
Tracey Logan investigates an ancient human and a zero-gravity space suit.
Sep 3, 2015 · 27 min
El Nino, Sphagnum moss and peatlands, Inside Cern, Measuring air pollution with iPhones
Tracey Logan investigates the El Nino warnings and the search for the Higgs boson.
Aug 20, 2015 · 28 min
20/08/2015
Gareth Mitchell asks whether paleolithic people ate carbs and why corals are in peril.
Aug 13, 2015 · 28 min
Scottish GM ban, Earth's magnetic field, OCD, Birth of a new galaxy
Scottish GM ban, the Earth's magnetic field, life with OCD, and how galaxies are born.
Jul 23, 2015 · 28 min
Pluto's surface, Increased Arctic ice in 2013, Linking brains together, Signals of fertility
Adam Rutherford presents news on the latest New Horizons images of Pluto's surface.
Jul 16, 2015 · 28 min
Pluto: New Horizons
The flyby of Pluto. Adam Rutherford with early pictures from New Horizons space probe.