A look into the unregulated world of home gut microbiome testing.
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2024.
Professor and presenter Chris Lintott talks about his new book, Our Accidental Universe.
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2024.
Oldest forest fossils found in Somerset show how our world looked 390 million years ago.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2024.
We look at the quality of water from your kitchen tap and check out some clever bees.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2024.
Should we even consider solar geoengineering?
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2024.
Is it a solution to global emissions or a distraction? And, will people actually eat it?
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2024.
Will the Gulf Stream collapse? A new modelling study suggests it could.
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2024.
Thanks to AI, scientists can now read charred scrolls from Herculaneum for the first time.
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2024.
A look at the science and ethics behind the companies driving brain-computer interface.
Published on Thursday, 29th February 2024.
A look at the role of hydrogen in the UK’s future energy economy with Prof Mark Miodownik.
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2024.
Are we entering a new volcanic era in Iceland?
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2024.
Understanding how flood forecasting and warning systems work, plus a mission to Europa.
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2024.
Inside Science explores the planned missions to the Moon in 2024.
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2024.
A festive special in the style of the 12 days of Christmas.
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2024.
On board the RSS Sir David Attenborough for the vessel’s first big science season
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2024.
Some of the biggest stories from COP28: oceans, food security and fossil fuel dependence.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2024.
Why are non-native species of birds arriving in the UK?
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2024.
The geophysics at work to locate tunnels.
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2023.
The key takeaways from the evidence of top scientists this week at the Covid inquiry.
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2023.
How scientists are monitoring Fagradalsfjall volcano and keeping people safe.
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2023.
Saleemul Huq, an advocate for vulnerable countries affected by climate change, has died.
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2023.
How disused mines are having a harmful effect on our rivers.
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2023.
What goes into our water supply and never comes out?
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2023.
What is white phosphorus and why is it so dangerous?
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2023.
Could a radical theory help us understand the origins of life?
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2023.
In the shadow of the Lovell Telescope, Victoria Gill questions our place in the universe.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2023.
A new report has revealed that one in six native UK species are at risk of extinction.
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2023.
Why is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rowing back on climate pledges?
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2023.
How close are we to achieving the UN’s goals by 2030?
Published on Thursday, 12th October 2023.
A landmark report reveals the staggering damage from invasive species across the world
Published on Thursday, 5th October 2023.
Extreme weather is forcing communities to leave their homes. What can we do about it?
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2023.
Broadcasting from Green Man Festival in Wales, we find out about the state of our rivers.
Published on Thursday, 21st September 2023.
Russia and India are due to land on the Moon next week. Here’s what you need to know.
Published on Thursday, 14th September 2023.
Can we ensure a brighter future for the Amazon rainforest?
Published on Thursday, 7th September 2023.
Will two new carbon capture and storage plants help bring UK to net zero?
Published on Thursday, 31st August 2023.
Is climate change the cause of wildfires?
Published on Thursday, 24th August 2023.
Record heatwaves have scorched parts of the planet. What are the impacts of these events?
Published on Thursday, 17th August 2023.
Should social media apps be better regulated in order to protect young people?
Published on Thursday, 10th August 2023.
Catch up on the latest cosmological research that has physicists ‘excited’.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd August 2023.
Temperatures are soaring. But is there anything we can do to prepare for the heat?
Published on Thursday, 27th July 2023.
Tune in and hear how rich soundscapes can inform science and help us conserve the planet.
Published on Wednesday, 19th July 2023.
A week on from the disaster what are the long-term implications for Ukraine and the globe?
Published on Thursday, 13th July 2023.
In the coming years, how could the seas help us feed the world and tackle climate change?
Published on Wednesday, 5th July 2023.
The machines are getting smarter. But is this a cause for concern?
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2023.
A new study to track turtles revealed unexpected levels of human eDNA in the environment.
Published on Wednesday, 21st June 2023.
Travel back in time via 370 years of research from some of the greatest minds in science.
Published on Wednesday, 14th June 2023.
Gaia Vince explores the steps we can take to mitigate the impacts of natural disasters.
Published on Wednesday, 7th June 2023.
What would the UK look like if it protected 30 per cent of its land and sea for nature?
Published on Wednesday, 31st May 2023.
Fresh insights into Rosalind Franklin’s role in the identification of DNA’s double-helix.
Published on Wednesday, 24th May 2023.
Popping the bonnet on the environmental impacts of a rapidly growing space industry.
Published on Wednesday, 17th May 2023.
Tips and insights into the art of negotiating and the science underpinning it
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2023.
We are facing a waste crisis; what must be done to promote and incentivise recycling?
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2023.
How does the government’s latest plan to reduce emissions stack up against the science?
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2023.
A potential intermediate species in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from bats to humans.
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2023.
The unexpected medical uses of artificial sweeteners.
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2023.
The government’s strategy for the future of science and technology
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2023.
Ministers, scientific advice and the search for scientific facts on the pandemic.
Published on Thursday, 30th March 2023.
What does the new record-breaking sea ice minimum mean for Antarctica?
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2023.
CRISPR controversy, a stone tool discovery and killer whale mummy's boys.
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2023.
What would the world look like if we had affordable energy available for everyone?
Published on Thursday, 9th March 2023.
What does the government's Environmental Improvement plan really mean?
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2023.
Can serving less meat in school dinners help the UK reach its climate goals?
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2023.
Changing our home heating and improving insulation to reduced bills and emissions.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2023.
Does modern AI technology pose a threat to student learning?
Published on Thursday, 9th February 2023.
Competition in the space industry is set to boom.
Published on Thursday, 2nd February 2023.
Marnie, Vic and Gaia look back at some of the biggest science news stories of 2022.
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2023.
We head to the kitchen to cook up the best Christmas dinner that science has to offer.
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2023.
Editing DNA seems to have cured a teenager’s leukaemia
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2023.
Can international efforts plan a more sustainable future?
Published on Thursday, 5th January 2023.
Seventy years ago, the deaths of thousands in London's smog led to the Clean Air Act.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2022.
Can the UK reach agreement with the EU on future scientific collaborations ?
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2022.
Holding the decision makers to account
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2022.
Loss and damage, Funding climate change impacts
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2022.
Could you have it and not know ?
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2022.
Turtle voices shed light on the evolutionary origins of vocal communication.
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2022.
Science, technology and the future of broadcasting.
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2022.
A new strain of the virus is taking a toll on both wild birds and poultry.
Published on Thursday, 10th November 2022.
What does virus evolution mean for Covid severity as we head into winter?
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2022.
The moratorium on fracking has been lifted, but what does the science say?
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2022.
How the war in Ukraine is impacting international research
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2022.
Is the James Webb Space Telescope too good?
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2022.
How hunter gatherers in Borneo successfully performed surgery thousands of years ago.
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2022.
Dealing with drought, satellite clutter and mucus evolution.
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2022.
Australian fires have impacted the ozone layer.
Published on Thursday, 22nd September 2022.
Did the Chicxulub meteor that did for the dinosaurs have a smaller cousin?
Published on Thursday, 15th September 2022.
Arctic warming around four times faster than previously thought.
Published on Thursday, 8th September 2022.
ESA announce that Shaun The Sheep will fly around the moon this month aboard Artemis 1.
Published on Thursday, 1st September 2022.
What are the consequences of the recent UK heatwave for us, plants and our energy supply.
Published on Thursday, 25th August 2022.
What came before the Big Bang; why the theory of the multiverse makes sense.
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2022.
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally in business - what treasures yet to come?
Published on Thursday, 11th August 2022.
A trip round the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2022.
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2022.
July 2022 marks 10 years since the Higgs Boson was confirmed to exist. What next?
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2022.
How hard is it to get to Mercury and why are we going?
Published on Thursday, 21st July 2022.
How could we spot a synthetic sentience even if we had made one?
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2022.
A stalemate in EU/UK science cooperation, and secrets of the jubilee 'hologram' revealed.
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2022.
Marnie Chesterton and guests take a walkabout through 70 years of science.
Published on Thursday, 30th June 2022.
Why are non-African monkeypox cases causing concern?
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2022.
Why Nasa's Marsquake monitor is powering down for good.
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2022.
A remarkable image of the supermassive black hole at the middle of the Milky Way.
Published on Thursday, 9th June 2022.
How bacteria could soon harvest precious metals from your old phone.
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2022.
What do we know about the mysterious cases of hepatitis in children?
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2022.
Why does scientific communication matter and how might it be done better?
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2022.
Could magic mushrooms be the key to a revolution in treating depression?
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2022.
Without mass studies and free testing, how will the UK keep an eye on Covid?
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2022.
With energy bills soaring, what's the best way to cut carbon use and keep the lights on?
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2022.
Improving diversity in science; heatwaves at both poles; finding the best hedge to plant.
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2022.
Food supply risks; lead poisoning in birds; Covid monitoring; Artemis mission to moon.
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2022.
UN talks on ocean protection; Covid’s effects on the brain; disruptions to Russian science
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2022.
Cyber war in Ukraine, global energy security, and the IPCC climate change report.
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2022.
New episodes will now be available first on Sounds for 28 days before other podcast apps.
Published on Friday, 4th March 2022.
Exciting finds from the dinosaur age, and how human behaviour shapes climate predictions
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2022.
Is the pandemic coming to an end? Scientists weigh in.
Published on Thursday, 17th February 2022.
Record-breaking energy extraction gets us closer to nuclear fusion at the UK-based JET lab
Published on Thursday, 10th February 2022.
As energy costs rise, a look at the legacy cost of radioactive waste.
Published on Thursday, 3rd February 2022.
Promising results suggest new biomarkers could rate the risk of developing Long Covid.
Published on Thursday, 27th January 2022.
Whay was the blast from the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano so violent?
Published on Thursday, 20th January 2022.
What does it take to unearth the largest Jurassic reptile fossil the UK has ever seen?
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2022.
The wonders and mysteries of the deep ocean, and the potential threats to it.
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2022.
Could humans be on the Moon and Mars before this decade is out?
Published on Thursday, 30th December 2021.
Archaeologists use ancient DNA to uncover an unrecognised mass migration into Britain.
Published on Thursday, 23rd December 2021.
A new giant space telescope that will show us the first stars that shone in the universe.
Published on Thursday, 16th December 2021.
T-Cells in vaccinated folk might just hold the fort against the latest SARS CoV2 variant.
Published on Thursday, 9th December 2021.
Did the omicron variant incubate in an immunocompromised patient?
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2021.
Gaia Vince finds out what benefit the malaria parasite brings to blood feeding mosquitoes.
Published on Thursday, 25th November 2021.
How much junk can we leave in orbit before space becomes impenetrable?
Published on Thursday, 18th November 2021.
Can propane prevent air conditioning becoming a bigger burden on our heating planet?
Published on Thursday, 11th November 2021.
Gaia Vince hears how blue whales' huge appetites helped generate more food for themselves.
Published on Thursday, 4th November 2021.
Do Ultra Low Emission Zones in Cities Work?
Published on Thursday, 28th October 2021.
False-negative PCRs, World Weather Attribution Science, and Metascience Studies.
Published on Thursday, 21st October 2021.
A simple test for the earliest stages of Alzheimer's.
Published on Thursday, 14th October 2021.
Nobel prizes; BepiColombo snaps Mercury; carbon take up by old oaks; mystery illnesses.
Published on Thursday, 7th October 2021.
Covid vaccine boosters; why we don't have a tail; cassowary farming; book prize shortlist
Published on Thursday, 30th September 2021.
La Palma volcano; wind energy in the UK; origins of SARS-Cov2; Formula 1 safety.
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 2021.
Mars rock samples; space tourism; fire debris and algal blooms; DNA vaccines for Covid.
Published on Thursday, 16th September 2021.
What's the future of oil and gas exploration when limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees?
Published on Thursday, 9th September 2021.
New clues on how tackles and knocks impact the brains of professional rugby players.
Published on Thursday, 2nd September 2021.
Is time running out to trace the origins of the pandemic?
Published on Thursday, 26th August 2021.
Tusk reveals the story of a woolly mammoth's 70,000 kilometre journey
Published on Thursday, 19th August 2021.
Climate change and extreme weather events.
Published on Thursday, 12th August 2021.
Pesticides more than double the trouble for bees
Published on Thursday, 5th August 2021.
How to balance individual rights with the collective action needed to end the pandemic.
Published on Thursday, 29th July 2021.
Revolutionising research into every aspect of life.
Published on Thursday, 22nd July 2021.
Testing the entire population could stop the virus spreading, but how would we do it?
Published on Thursday, 15th July 2021.
The role our genetic inheritance plays in determining how the virus affects us.
Published on Thursday, 8th July 2021.
A treatment to change faulty genetic instructions in the liver seems to be successful.
Published on Thursday, 1st July 2021.
How will the new UK strategy affect funding for existing research and future innovation?
Published on Thursday, 24th June 2021.
Cov-Boost trial; SARS-Cov 2 infection in action; sapling guards; why tadpoles are dying
Published on Thursday, 17th June 2021.
Covid vaccines in children; preventing dengue; algal blooms; supersonic flight.
Published on Thursday, 10th June 2021.
Lab leak theory of SARS-Cov2; gene for obesity; dark matter map; rock art in Scotland
Published on Thursday, 3rd June 2021.
Vic Gill and guests take a look at human impacts on the earth over thousands of years.
Published on Thursday, 27th May 2021.
Viennese scientists describe a cure for infamous vaccine-induced thrombosis.
Published on Thursday, 20th May 2021.
Victoria Gill wades into the microplastic problems in UK riverbeds.
Published on Thursday, 13th May 2021.
Early burials, diversity in Tudor England, a malaria vaccine, and rogue brain waves.
Published on Thursday, 6th May 2021.
Dragonfly on Titan, Retreating Glaciers, Surge Testing for Covid 19, Acoustic lighthouses.
Published on Thursday, 29th April 2021.
Coronavirus variants, climate change resistant coffee, dare to repair and clothes moths.
Published on Thursday, 22nd April 2021.
Evolving research on blood clots associated with vaccines, the emotion of screams, grief.
Published on Thursday, 15th April 2021.
Disobedient particles, noisy gorillas, sharks and fictional languages.
Published on Thursday, 8th April 2021.
Science funding cuts; Mice and Covid-19; Native oyster reintroduction.
Published on Thursday, 1st April 2021.
Halfway to net zero; hydrogen as a fuel; Fagradalsfjall, Iceland’s active volcano.
Published on Thursday, 25th March 2021.
Human embryo research and ethics; sperm whale social learning; Antikythera mechanism.
Published on Thursday, 18th March 2021.
China’s five-year plan; cloning the black footed ferret; seals lending a flipper.
Published on Thursday, 11th March 2021.
Blue carbon; seeing inside Little Foot's skull; reading locked letters with X rays.
Published on Thursday, 4th March 2021.
UN Environment Programme publishes Making Peace With Nature report ahead of COP 26.
Published on Thursday, 25th February 2021.
Landing, driving, flying on Mars, and where on Earth to look out for the next big virus.
Published on Thursday, 18th February 2021.
Tim Peake on Mars, melting poles and glaciers, CFC anomaly disappears, Oceanic cacophany.
Published on Thursday, 11th February 2021.
Biodiversity, planting trees for good and bad, and the hidden impacts of traffic noise.
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2021.
What will the next generation of Covid vaccines be like? And when was the first pet dog?
Published on Thursday, 28th January 2021.
Unpacking some causes of vaccine hesitancy in different quarters, and what does catnip do?
Published on Thursday, 21st January 2021.
UK Science after Brexit, changing the rules for GMO's, and how identical twins differ.
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2021.
Spacing vaccine doses, and monitoring biodiversity through sound and machine learning.
Published on Thursday, 7th January 2021.
Adam Rutherford, Brian Cox and Alice Roberts reflect on a decade of extraordinary science.
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2020.
Dr Adam Rutherford and guests discuss space, dinosaurs and climate science in 2020.
Published on Thursday, 24th December 2020.
Tracking Covid variants, AI v. the expression of human emotions, a mystery museum object.
Published on Thursday, 17th December 2020.
Future risk planning; Millennium Seed Bank; Urban trees.
Published on Thursday, 10th December 2020.
AI ‘solves’ protein puzzle; Chasing Asteroids; holiday testing students
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 2020.
Sentinel 6 launch; The Cosmic Dark Ages; Lithium Batteries
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2020.
COVID Operation Moonshot; Big Compost Experiment; Gulf of Mexico meteorite and new life.
Published on Thursday, 19th November 2020.
How do the new type of mRNA vaccines work actually work? And how lawless is space?
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2020.
COVID in families; earthquake under Aegean Sea; Camilla Pang wins science book prize.
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2020.
A new saliva gland, Bill Bryson on the Human Body, and the return of the Dust Bowl.
Published on Thursday, 29th October 2020.
COVID reinfections, Susannah Cahalan questions psychiatry, and sense of smell and COVID.
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 2020.
COVID test and trace around the world and Linda Scott's book - The Double X Economy
Published on Thursday, 15th October 2020.
The science of affectionate touch, from the skin to brain.
Published on Thursday, 8th October 2020.
Brian May's 3-D nebulae; how fish move between lakes; Jim Al-Khalili's take on physics.
Published on Thursday, 1st October 2020.
Royal Society Science Book Prize - Gaia Vince; Biodiversity loss and Science Museum object
Published on Thursday, 24th September 2020.
COVID-19 in winter; acoustics of Stonehenge; dog years.
Published on Thursday, 17th September 2020.
Coronavirus: the types of vaccine; how the UK is scaling up vaccine production.
Published on Thursday, 10th September 2020.
Bird and dinosaur skull evolution; the wonders of yeast and Science Museum mystery object
Published on Thursday, 3rd September 2020.
What does the science say about the Covid risks of schools reopening? Dolphin ear autopsy.
Published on Thursday, 27th August 2020.
Smart bricks, awards for pandemic engineering solutions and detecting Covid in sewage.
Published on Thursday, 20th August 2020.
Land use and zoonoses, Los Angeles’ earthquake risk and the Tuatara genome.
Published on Thursday, 13th August 2020.
How sperm actually swim, the theory of soil and an update on the Big Compost Experiment.
Published on Thursday, 6th August 2020.
Science Museum mystery objects; home security camera security and Rosalind Franklin at 100
Published on Thursday, 30th July 2020.
Pre-prints over peer review during the COVID pandemic, and roads and birds.
Published on Thursday, 23rd July 2020.
Adam Rutherford explores fraud and bias in science. And immunity to SARS-CoV-2.
Published on Thursday, 16th July 2020.
Satellite navigation in the UK; the science of the World Wide Web; Neolithic genomics
Published on Thursday, 9th July 2020.
Preventing zoonotic pandemics; invasive species; blood groups and COVID-19
Published on Thursday, 2nd July 2020.
An Inside Science Special on the 20th anniversary of the Human Genome Project.
Published on Thursday, 25th June 2020.
Coronavirus conspiracies, listeners' mask questions, Solar Orbiter gets close to the Sun
Published on Thursday, 18th June 2020.
Engineering solutions to reduce the spread of Covid-19, and should we castrate male dogs?
Published on Thursday, 11th June 2020.
Back to School and Covid-19 and Ordnance Survey and the pandemic.
Published on Thursday, 4th June 2020.
Testing and Tracing the coronavirus, and the traces our everyday movements leave behind.
Published on Thursday, 28th May 2020.
Marnie Chesterton brings us some coronavirus-free science breakthroughs since lockdown.
Published on Thursday, 21st May 2020.
Coronavirus R number, genome study of Covid survivors and assessing aviation with big data
Published on Thursday, 14th May 2020.
Should the public wear face masks? Did the coronavirus escape from a laboratory in Wuhan?
Published on Thursday, 7th May 2020.
Testing for immunity to Covid-19 and citizen science on BBC Radio past and present.
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2020.
Understanding Covid-19 death rates; contact tracing apps; whale sharks and atomic bombs.
Published on Thursday, 23rd April 2020.
Lockdown lessons for climate change and the carbon neutral Cumbrian coal mine.
Published on Thursday, 16th April 2020.
Testing for asymptomatic coronavirus carriers, Human Cell Atlas, and invasive parakeets.
Published on Thursday, 9th April 2020.
Models and graphs informing government strategy; Isolation tips; Fun science for kids.
Published on Thursday, 2nd April 2020.
Coronavirus - lockdown efficacy; viral testing; surface survival; dog walking safety
Published on Thursday, 26th March 2020.
TB vaccination to replace culling in badgers; Neil Shubin on the wonders of evolution.
Published on Thursday, 19th March 2020.
Why and how does the new coronavirus make us ill?
Published on Thursday, 12th March 2020.
Banning lead shot for hunting; UK Fireball Network and Extremely thin gold
Published on Thursday, 5th March 2020.
The Big Compost Experiment; Using AI to screen for new antibiotics; Science of slapstick
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2020.
Coronavirus questions; HMS Challenger & ocean acidification; Sean Carroll's quantum world
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2020.
Ordnance Survey - 220-year-old tech company, synthetic voices and personality test.
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2020.
Solar Orbiter launch; Mutational signatures in cancer; paleo-oncology
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2020.
Coronavirus update, Typhoid Mary and 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2020.
Coronavirus outbreak in China, Amish genetic diseases and Egyptian mummy speaks.
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2020.
Reproducibility crisis in science, Aeolus wind-measuring satellite, and electric cars.
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2020.
Gareth Mitchell discusses the Australian bush fires; Veganuary and LIGO
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2020.
The hidden history in our DNA - Part 2 - Travel and Culture
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2020.
The hidden history in our DNA - Part 1 - Sex and Disease
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2019.
Ten years of Zooniverse; what happened to volcano Anak Krakatau and visualising maths.
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2019.
Earliest prehistoric hunting scene; fox domestication study flaw
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2019.
Global Carbon Emissions; Simulating swaying buildings and Parker Solar Probe
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2019.
Should we be supporting sustainably grown palm oil? Virtual reality skin
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2019.
Noise pollution and wildlife; No till farming; Cornwall's geothermal heat
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2019.
Soils and floods, air pollution and ultra-low emission zones, detecting the drug Spice
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2019.
Fracking moratorium; Bloodhound; Big Compost Experiment; transit of Mercury
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2019.
African genomes sequenced; Space weather; sports head injuries.
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2019.
Agriculture and greenhouse gases: We answer your questions
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2019.
Ebola model, partula snails, malaria origin.
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2019.
XR protest – how best to reach net zero emissions? And science and culture of Nobel Prizes
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2019.
HIV protective gene paper retraction, imaging Herculaneum scrolls, Bill Bryson's The Body.
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2019.
Oceans, ice and climate change; Neolithic baby bottles; and Caroline Criado Perez
Published on Thursday, 26th September 2019.
MOSAiC expedition, Bahama nuthatch and Tim Smedley's book on air pollution.
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2019.
Model embryos, Paul Steinhardt's book on impossible crystals and Mother Thames.
Published on Thursday, 12th September 2019.
Inventing GPS, carbon nanotube computer, RS Prize shortlisted books on calculus and skin.
Published on Thursday, 5th September 2019.
Amazon fires, Royal Society Book Prize shortlist, and John Gribben on quantum physics.
Published on Thursday, 29th August 2019.
UK's black squirrels' genetic heritage; nuclear fusion and the Royal Society's book prize.
Published on Thursday, 22nd August 2019.
UK power cut, huge dinosaur find in Wyoming and micro-plastics in Arctic snow
Published on Thursday, 15th August 2019.
Making the UK's dams safe; AI spots fake smiles and how many trees should we be planting?
Published on Thursday, 8th August 2019.
James Lovelock at 100, hydrothermal vents and antibiotic resistance in the environment
Published on Thursday, 1st August 2019.
False positives in genetic test kits, impact of fishing on sharks, and sex-change species.
Published on Thursday, 25th July 2019.
Turing on the new £50 note, moon landing on the radio, 25 years since Shoemaker-Levy comet
Published on Thursday, 18th July 2019.
Earliest modern human skull, analysing moon rocks, and viruses lurking in our genomes.
Published on Thursday, 11th July 2019.
Summer Science from the Royal Society: a trip to Mercury, Music of Molecules, and AI Cars.
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2019.
Global Food Security, a threat to wheat, future use-by labels and origins of the potato.
Published on Thursday, 27th June 2019.
Destroying rinderpest virus, how noise confuses birds, and science as light entertainment.
Published on Thursday, 20th June 2019.
Gareth Mitchell discusses a new carbon emissions target, and Science Policy Under Thatcher
Published on Thursday, 13th June 2019.
CCR5 mutation effects, the Surrey earthquake swarm, Mama’s Last Hug by Frans de Waal.
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2019.
How mathematics underpins science, recorded at the Hay Festival.
Published on Thursday, 30th May 2019.
New CFC emissions, Cannabis and Yeast, A Noisy Cocktail Party, Automated Face Recognition.
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2019.
Hubble Not-So Constant, Synthetic E. Coli, The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2019.
Forensic science provision, an optimal garden watering strategy, and a mystery knee bone.
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2019.
Sex, gender and sport - the Caster Semenya case; the latest Denisovan discovery in Tibet
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2019.
Thought-to-speech machine, City Nature Challenge, the Science of Storytelling
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2019.
Notre-Dame fire, reviving pig brains, ExoMars and evolution of faces.
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2019.
Visualising a black hole, Homo luzonensis, Two ways to overcome antimicrobial resistance
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2019.
Cretaceous catastrophe fossilised, LIGO and Virgo, corals and forensic shoeprint database
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2019.
UK pollinating insect numbers, tracking whales using barnacles and sleep signals.
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2019.
Where next World Wide Web? Space rocks and worms
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2019.
Rules and ethics of genome editing, gender, sex and sport, and hog roasts at Stonehenge.
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2019.
A cure for HIV? Sleepy flies, secrets of the Fukushima disaster and science fact checking
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2019.
Falling carbon and rising methane, and unsung heroes at the Francis Crick Institute.
Published on Thursday, 28th February 2019.
Goodbye Mars Opportunity rover - what's next? Forests and carbon, Ethiopian bush crow
Published on Thursday, 21st February 2019.
Insect decline, gut microbiome and geomagnetic switching.
Published on Thursday, 14th February 2019.
Antarctic ice melting and sea level, equine flu, generator bricks, and Iberian gene maps.
Published on Thursday, 7th February 2019.
Sprinting Neanderthals, geodynamo, spreading sneezes and dying hares.
Published on Thursday, 31st January 2019.
The latest on Nasa's Ultima Thule mission and the science behind Dry January
Published on Friday, 4th January 2019.
Gene-edited twins; placenta organoids in a dish; when the last leaves drop.
Published on Thursday, 29th November 2018.
Mars InSight mission, detecting dark matter, redefining the kg and more on bovine TB.
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 2018.
Bovine TB and badger culling; shrimp hoover CSI; shark-skin and Turing patterning.
Published on Thursday, 15th November 2018.
Oldest cave picture, the Anthropocene under London and a new scientist for the £50 note.
Published on Thursday, 8th November 2018.
Repairing potholes, ozone hole, internet of hives and drugs from fingerprints.
Published on Thursday, 1st November 2018.
Royal Society President Venki Ramakrishnan on UK science and Brexit.
Published on Thursday, 25th October 2018.
The dogs of Neolithic farmers and rocket science.
Published on Thursday, 18th October 2018.
IPCC report, Cairngorms Connect project, grass pea, the Sun exhibition at Science Museum
Published on Thursday, 11th October 2018.
Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science in the news.
Published on Thursday, 4th October 2018.
Hayabusa2, the deadly 1918 flu pandemic, WW2 bombing and the ionosphere, the teenage brain
Published on Thursday, 27th September 2018.
Adam Rutherford looks at the art and science of addiction at the Science Gallery London.
Published on Thursday, 20th September 2018.
First human drawing; cycling genes; Oden Arctic expedition; Hello World.
Published on Thursday, 13th September 2018.
Adam Rutherford wrestles with biological complexity with help from guests in Dublin.
Published on Thursday, 6th September 2018.
Electronic brain probe; River biodiversity; Arctic weather expedition; Science book prize
Published on Thursday, 30th August 2018.
Banana survival; Guillemot egg shape; Unexpected Truth About Animals; Tambora rainstorm
Published on Thursday, 23rd August 2018.
Why elephants don't get cancer, Exactly - a history of precision
Published on Thursday, 16th August 2018.
New Horizons next mission, helium at 150, The Beautiful Cure, Oden arctic expedition.
Published on Thursday, 9th August 2018.
Parker solar probe, Diversity in the lab, Royal Society book prize, Arctic circle weather.
Published on Thursday, 2nd August 2018.
Liquid water on Mars, Early embryo development, Earth Biogenome Project, Marine Wilderness
Published on Thursday, 26th July 2018.
Peatbog wildfires, coral acoustics, Magdalena Skipper and fuelling long-term space travel.
Published on Thursday, 19th July 2018.
Out of Africa, predicting future heatwaves, virtual reality molecules, life in the dark.
Published on Thursday, 12th July 2018.
Preserving white rhino, deep sea earthquake detection, Twitter's plant find, human roars.
Published on Thursday, 5th July 2018.
Adam Rutherford discusses the latest space mission to grab samples from an asteroid.
Published on Thursday, 28th June 2018.
The Large Hadron Collider Upgrade, Voltaglue, Cambridge Zoology Museum, Francis Willughby.
Published on Thursday, 21st June 2018.
Antarctica's ice melt is speeding up. What does this mean for rising global sea levels?
Published on Monday, 18th June 2018.
Should dinosaurs be sold to the high bidder?
Published on Thursday, 14th June 2018.
Adam Rutherford and guests at the Hay Festival on what science learns when things go wrong
Published on Thursday, 31st May 2018.
Will rising CO2 levels make rice less nutritous?
Published on Thursday, 24th May 2018.
How good is face recognition technology? Adam Rutherford investigates.
Published on Thursday, 17th May 2018.
Why eradicate every rat on South Georgia?
Published on Thursday, 10th May 2018.
Antarctic glacier collapse and rising sea levels plus Adam asks who owns ancient DNA.
Published on Thursday, 3rd May 2018.
Could a brain grown in a dish become sentient? Adam Rutherford investigates.
Published on Thursday, 26th April 2018.
Adam Rutherford investigates the plastic-eating bacteria in the news this week.
Published on Thursday, 19th April 2018.
How widespread is pesticide use in British farming? Adam Rutherford presents.
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2018.
Adam Rutherford presents a special tribute to the science of Stephen Hawking.
Published on Thursday, 5th April 2018.
Adam Rutherford looks at the latest study on genetics and education.
Published on Thursday, 29th March 2018.
Data scraping, Future of the Sea report, Cleaning up space junk, Dinosaur eggs and nests.
Published on Thursday, 22nd March 2018.
With Brexit approaching, what stance will the UK take on bee-harming pesticides?
Published on Thursday, 15th March 2018.
What are nerve agents and what antidotes are available?
Published on Thursday, 8th March 2018.
Is the current weather really so unusual?
Published on Thursday, 1st March 2018.
Post-Brexit science funding, the Great pot invasion, Hurricane bells and Dancing worms.
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2018.
Shipping air pollution; Cheddar Man; millirobots in the body; dog brain training.
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2018.
How space science is getting down with the kids.
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2018.
Scientists under threat in Turkey.
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2018.
Did typhoid kill the Aztecs? DNA and Bitcoin, Glow-in-the-dark plants, Human levitation.
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2018.
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2018.
Sanchi oil tanker, Gut gas sensor, Do babies look like their fathers?, Neanderthal sex.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2018.
Strange star seeks an explanation that doesn't involve alien civilisation
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2018.
Adam Rutherford on the DNA revolution in our understanding of human evolution.
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2017.
A turning point in treating brain diseases? Why are palaeontologists suing Donald Trump?
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2017.
Adam Rutherford considers the future of coral reefs and the visions of Arthur C Clarke.
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2017.
Does trophy hunting threaten big game species with extinction?
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2017.
Prehistoric women were as strong as today's top female rowers.
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2017.
Oumuamua - the first known visitor from beyond the solar system.
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2017.
Does the length of the day influence the risk of large earthquakes?
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2017.
A young boy is saved by a remarkable combination of stem cell and gene therapy
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2017.
A major global study finds that climate change has already damaged the health of millions.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2017.
Where have all the insects gone?
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2017.
Astronomy enters a new age as gravitational waves locate the collision of neutron stars.
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2017.
Earthquakes caused by human activities - a new global database
Published on Thursday, 5th October 2017.
How can we avert the antibiotic resistance crisis?
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2017.
Cassini's finale; Science and Technology Select Committee; Crick's lecture; Cave acoustics
Published on Thursday, 21st September 2017.
Farewell to Cassini - the latest and final results of the 20 year mission to Saturn.
Published on Thursday, 14th September 2017.
Did North Korea test a hydrogen bomb?
Published on Thursday, 7th September 2017.
Noxious haze over south coast; In Pursuit of Memory book; technosphere; Big Wasp Survey
Published on Thursday, 31st August 2017.
Killer robots; myths and conservation; Cordelia Fine's book - Testosterone Rex; taxidermy.
Published on Thursday, 24th August 2017.
Antarctica's volcanoes; Mark O'Connell's book; US solar eclipse; Voyager at 40.
Published on Thursday, 17th August 2017.
Heat waves; Eugenia Cheng's book; next generation batteries; Joseph Hooker exhibition.
Published on Thursday, 10th August 2017.
Gene-editing human embryos; spaceman's eyes;science book prize; sexual selection in salmon
Published on Thursday, 3rd August 2017.
Cod; connection to nature; domestic electricity; gamma ray burst.
Published on Thursday, 27th July 2017.
Genetics and privacy; Global plastic; Great Ape Dictionary; Ocean Discovery X Prize.
Published on Thursday, 20th July 2017.
What areas of medicine will benefit from genetic testing? Has its promise been overstated?
Published on Thursday, 13th July 2017.
Disagreement over the results of the latest field study into neonicotinoids and bee health
Published on Thursday, 6th July 2017.
Huge genetic differences between the sexes may result in more drug side-effects for women.
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2017.
Dundee University forensics science centre expands to test new psychoactive substances.
Published on Thursday, 22nd June 2017.
Applying scientific techniques to reduce fire risk in tall buildings
Published on Thursday, 15th June 2017.
Homo sapiens walked the earth at least 300,000 years ago.
Published on Thursday, 8th June 2017.
Adam Rutherford and guests discuss the usefulness of useless knowledge at the Hay Festival
Published on Thursday, 1st June 2017.
What is the secret of the Sherpa people's adaptation to life at high altitude?
Published on Thursday, 25th May 2017.
Searching for 100-year-old tumours to boost research on rare childhood cancers.
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2017.
Do new violins sound better than old famed instruments? A scientist and soloist discuss.
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2017.
Shocking experiment shows how the brain makes us do the right thing.
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2017.
Homo naledi; first humans in America; dark matter detector; new theory of dark matter.
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2017.
Cassini's death; scrapping diesel cars; weather balloons; satellites monitoring volcanoes
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2017.
23andMe genetic sequencing, Human knockout genes, Coral bleaching.
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2017.
How a megaflood severed Britain's connection to what is now France 450,000 years ago.
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2017.
Climate change and extreme weather; primate brain size; earthquake forecasting; planet 9.
Published on Thursday, 30th March 2017.
Comet 67P images, Etna eruption, brain navigation, octopus intelligence.
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2017.
Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2017.
Adam Rutherford asks if we are ready for artificial intelligences making decisions for us
Published on Wednesday, 15th March 2017.
With Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock.
Published on Thursday, 9th March 2017.
Adam Rutherford explores our relationship with contemporary humanoid robots
Published on Monday, 6th March 2017.
Adam Rutherford explores the role of robots in past societies
Published on Friday, 3rd March 2017.
The World's oldest sedimentary rocks reveal traces of our earliest ancestors.
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2017.
How a woolly story about resurrecting mammoths raises serious questions for medical ethics
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2017.
Testing cyber security with science.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2017.
Quantifying the impact of humanity on the earth's natural systems.
Published on Thursday, 9th February 2017.
How measures set up to conserve endangered species are being eroded.
Published on Thursday, 2nd February 2017.
How the genes of unrelated others can influence our health and behaviour.
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2017.
Why the British Antarctic science base is being temporarily abandoned.
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2017.
Why the simplest explanations are not always the best when it comes to science.
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2017.
Science mourns the death of the world's oldest killer whale, 'Granny'.
Published on Thursday, 5th January 2017.
Adam Rutherford puts listeners' science questions to his team of experts.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2016.
Can Inuits survive the Arctic cold thanks to deep past liaisons with another species?
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2016.
Could rocks discovered by the Mars rover Spirit contain the hallmarks of ancient life?
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2016.
How well do we understand Alzheimers disease after the latest drug trial disappointment?
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2016.
Can we use predatory bacteria as treatments for antibiotic resistant infections?
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2016.
Does Pluto have an ocean under its ice crust?
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2016.
Climate change - listeners' questions answered.
Published on Thursday, 10th November 2016.
Italy's earthquakes: is there a pattern?
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2016.
Fighting Zika and dengue virus with an insect bacterium.
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2016.
A map of the 37 trillion cells in the body and when did humans first use dogs for hunting?
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2016.
New mission searching for signs of life on Mars about to arrive at the Red Planet
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2016.
Microbead impact, remote animal logging, Royal Society book prize, Surgewatch.
Published on Thursday, 8th September 2016.
Proxima b exoplanet, The Hunt for Vulcan, east Antarctic lakes, deep sea shark hunting.
Published on Thursday, 25th August 2016.
Autonomous cars, bees and neonicotinoids, Marden Henge, Royal Society Book Prize.
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2016.
A blow to the LHC "bump"; Crow intelligence; Robot mudskippers; Royal Society book prize.
Published on Thursday, 11th August 2016.
What clues should we look for when searching for life on other planets?
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2016.
Dinosaur extinction, Neanderthals in Gibraltar, music appreciation; a year of New Horizons
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2016.
Welcome to Jupiter: Juno mission unlocks secrets of this giant gas ball of a planet.
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2016.
Nasa's Juno space mission approaches Jupiter.
Published on Thursday, 30th June 2016.
Adam Rutherford finds out why insects are being celebrated across the UK.
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2016.
Gravitational waves have been found for a second time. What’s different this time?
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2016.
What can be done to tackle antimicrobial resistance, a massive threat that humans face?
Published on Thursday, 9th June 2016.
From the Hay Festival, Adam Rutherford and guests ask how science can fix the future.
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2016.
Adam Rutherford examines the science of GM plants as the Royal Society takes on the issue
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2016.
How can complex science tell us what to do about the effects of climate change?
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2016.
Adam Rutherford investigates a small but significant link between genetics and education.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2016.
Scientists can keep human embryos alive for longer. Should they?
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2016.
Have physicists at Cern found a new particle?
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2016.
What are the consequences for UK science of leaving the EU? Adam investigates.
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2016.
Will a fleet of tiny craft, pushed by lasers, sail to a star?
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2016.
Dung Roman: the historical mess of Hannibal's elephant march may have been cleared up.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2016.
As Europe's largest floating solar farm goes online, Adam Rutherford discusses solar power
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2016.
Predicting how the flu virus mutates could help make better vaccines to fight it.
Published on Thursday, 24th March 2016.
Lost memories can be recovered in mice. Are there implications for Alzheimer's patients?
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2016.
Tracey Logan investigates whether there is some science that is just too dangerous to do.
Published on Thursday, 10th March 2016.
Babies from the longest-running cohort study turn 70 this month.
Published on Thursday, 3rd March 2016.
What does a Brexit mean for UK science?
Published on Thursday, 25th February 2016.
Adam Rutherford puts listeners' gravitational wave queries to cosmologist Andrew Pontzen.
Published on Thursday, 18th February 2016.
Gravitational waves detected - scientists prove Einstein right after 100 years.
Published on Thursday, 11th February 2016.
How charting the UK's nectar-providing flowers could help pollinating insects.
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2016.
What can science reveal about the Zika virus and microcephaly?
Published on Thursday, 28th January 2016.
Adam Rutherford examines the genetics of ancient Britons and reminisces about Concorde.
Published on Thursday, 21st January 2016.
Adam Rutherford finds out how the 100,000 Genome Project is helping children and families.
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2016.
How the current El Nino event is affecting lives in the UK and around the world.
Published on Thursday, 7th January 2016.
Adam Rutherford and guests answer listeners' science questions.
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2015.
New Horizons Pluto update;friendly predatory bacteria;Christmas in the lab;human ancestry
Published on Thursday, 24th December 2015.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield gives Tim Peake advice on how to cope in space.
Published on Thursday, 17th December 2015.
Adam Rutherford asks how models can help to predict floods and improve defences.
Published on Thursday, 10th December 2015.
Adam Rutherford questions the latest government science funding review.
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 2015.
Ancient genome research shows the effect of the introduction of farming to Europe.
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2015.
Melting Antarctic ice sheet will not lead to as big a sea level rise as previously thought
Published on Thursday, 19th November 2015.
Adam Rutherford asks whether Britain's oldest tree has changed sex.
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2015.
Tracey Logan unpicks how people's brains work and discusses maverick scientist Boole.
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2015.
Oxygen detected on comet 67P doesn’t fit with models of early Solar System formation.
Published on Thursday, 29th October 2015.
Latest stats shows UK scientists used fewer research animals last year. Or did they?
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 2015.
Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock explore time travel in science and cinema.
Published on Thursday, 15th October 2015.
Adam Rutherford meets Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.
Published on Thursday, 8th October 2015.
Adam Rutherford is at Kew Gardens to discuss challenges in preserving global biodiversity.
Published on Thursday, 1st October 2015.
Adam Rutherford is joined by guests to answer listener questions.
Published on Thursday, 24th September 2015.
Adam Rutherford looks at the new photos of Pluto which were beamed back to Earth this week
Published on Thursday, 17th September 2015.
Tracey Logan investigates an ancient human and a zero-gravity space suit.
Published on Thursday, 10th September 2015.
Tracey Logan investigates the El Nino warnings and the search for the Higgs boson.
Published on Thursday, 3rd September 2015.
Gareth Mitchell asks whether paleolithic people ate carbs and why corals are in peril.
Published on Thursday, 20th August 2015.
Scottish GM ban, the Earth's magnetic field, life with OCD, and how galaxies are born.
Published on Thursday, 13th August 2015.
Adam Rutherford presents news on the latest New Horizons images of Pluto's surface.
Published on Thursday, 23rd July 2015.
The flyby of Pluto. Adam Rutherford with early pictures from New Horizons space probe.
Published on Thursday, 16th July 2015.
Adam Rutherford investigates intrusive memories, silent aircraft, nuclear fusion and Pluto
Published on Thursday, 9th July 2015.
Adam Rutherford examines results of a field trial of a new way to repel aphids from wheat.
Published on Thursday, 2nd July 2015.
Adam Rutherford presents news of a novel drug to potentially prevent and treat malaria.
Published on Thursday, 25th June 2015.
Adam Rutherford examines new images from the Alma telescope of the earliest galaxies.
Published on Thursday, 11th June 2015.
New research on the origins of life. How do scientists unpick the start of biology?
Published on Thursday, 4th June 2015.
Tracey Logan examines technology to enable robots to remain fully autonomous when damaged.
Published on Thursday, 28th May 2015.
Studying human echolocation at the quietest place on earth.
Published on Thursday, 21st May 2015.
New research on seasonal variation in people's immune systems. With Adam Rutherford.
Published on Thursday, 14th May 2015.
Published on Thursday, 7th May 2015.
The earthquake in Nepal, monkey dexterity, maritime light pollution and light in bacteria.
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2015.
How the gut bacteria of isolated communities shed light on diseases in the western world.
Published on Thursday, 23rd April 2015.
The Hubble Telescope and its contribution to shaping our understanding of the cosmos.
Published on Thursday, 16th April 2015.
Dr Lucie Green examines the legacy of the Messenger mission to Mercury.
Published on Thursday, 9th April 2015.
Should people embrace the changes resulting from invasive alien species?
Published on Thursday, 26th March 2015.
Genetic map of British Isles, drones for conservation, lab photosynthesis, solar eclipse.
Published on Thursday, 19th March 2015.
Large Hadron Collider opportunities and the acoustics of the violin. With Adam Rutherford.
Published on Thursday, 12th March 2015.
Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; women in science; arrival at Ceres.
Published on Thursday, 5th March 2015.
Adam Rutherford examines a significant step towards the intelligent computer.
Published on Thursday, 26th February 2015.
The need for new treatments for Alzheimer's, a twin space experiment and false memories.
Published on Thursday, 19th February 2015.
Adam Rutherford investigates new insights into what lies at the centre of the Earth.
Published on Thursday, 12th February 2015.
Hunting tactics of goshawks and the men who invented the contraceptive pill and the laser.
Published on Thursday, 5th February 2015.
Perceptions of climate change, the Anthropocene era and a new theory of cell evolution.
Published on Thursday, 29th January 2015.
Proposed failsafe for genetically modified organisms and the International Year of Light.
Published on Thursday, 22nd January 2015.
Adam Rutherford takes a special look at the role soils play in providing for our planet.
Published on Thursday, 15th January 2015.
Mission to return to our planetary neighbour Venus and astronomy highlights in 2015.
Published on Thursday, 8th January 2015.
Published on Thursday, 1st January 2015.
Tiny plastic particles have been found polluting the deep ocean sediment.
Published on Thursday, 18th December 2014.
Earth's water does not come from comets, the recent Rosetta mission suggests.
Published on Thursday, 11th December 2014.
A NASA space capsule which could transport humans to Mars is set to make its maiden flight
Published on Thursday, 4th December 2014.
The Food Standards Agency reports that 70 per cent of supermarket chicken is contaminated.
Published on Thursday, 27th November 2014.
Philae lander detects organic molecules on Comet 67P.
Published on Thursday, 20th November 2014.
Adam Rutherford discovers what is happening now that Rosetta's lander has touched down.
Published on Thursday, 13th November 2014.
Adam Rutherford asks if science can offer answers to our rapidly ageing population.
Published on Thursday, 6th November 2014.
Lucie Green investigates the past, present and future of the moon.
Published on Thursday, 30th October 2014.
The 'Hobbit' skeleton - rewriting human history, but still controversial 10 years later.
Published on Thursday, 23rd October 2014.
What can science tell us about the virus at the centre of the current Ebola outbreak?
Published on Thursday, 16th October 2014.
Adam Rutherford hosts a post-match analysis of the 2014 Nobel Prizes for science.
Published on Thursday, 9th October 2014.
Adam Rutherford asks the Royal Society about the decline in awards to female scientists.
Published on Thursday, 2nd October 2014.
Claims of evidence for cosmic super-expansion just after the Big Bang are questioned.
Published on Thursday, 25th September 2014.
How most present-day Europeans derive from at least three ancestral populations.
Published on Thursday, 18th September 2014.
Examining the latest Jack the Ripper ID, and debating the future of Scottish science.
Published on Thursday, 11th September 2014.
Adam Rutherford talks to researchers in Iceland studying the erupting Bardarbunga volcano.
Published on Thursday, 4th September 2014.
Adam Rutherford shines a light on how the mouse brain processes memory.
Published on Thursday, 28th August 2014.
Adam Rutherford discovers that TB was introduced to the Americas from seals and sea lions.
Published on Thursday, 21st August 2014.
Will quantum physics bring us any closer to understanding how anaesthetics work?
Published on Thursday, 14th August 2014.
Professor Alice Roberts reveals Laquintasaura, a new dinosaur found in South America.
Published on Thursday, 7th August 2014.
Alice Roberts indulges in some science experiments for kids, including Bubblecano!
Published on Thursday, 31st July 2014.
Adam discusses the ethics and privacy issues surrounding facial recognition programmes.
Published on Thursday, 24th July 2014.
Adam visits Kew Gardens to root amongst the foliage and reveal the latest in plant science
Published on Thursday, 17th July 2014.
Adam Rutherford questions the science behind behavioural profiling at airport security.
Published on Thursday, 10th July 2014.
Can we be used in experiments without our consent? Adam Rutherford investigates.
Published on Thursday, 3rd July 2014.
Dr Adam Rutherford learns about this year's Longitude Prize challenge.
Published on Thursday, 26th June 2014.
Adam Rutherford finds out why Antarctica isn't such a pristine environment after all.
Published on Thursday, 19th June 2014.
Big Science - the first World Cup kick is to be made using a mind-controlled robotic suit.
Published on Thursday, 12th June 2014.
China is taking the tops off mountains to build cities. What are the risks?
Published on Thursday, 5th June 2014.
Tracey Logan and modern women scientists discuss past inspirational ladies of science.
Published on Thursday, 29th May 2014.
Adam Rutherford discusses the launch of the Longitude Prize 2014.
Published on Thursday, 22nd May 2014.
Adam Rutherford discusses the irreversible melting of the Antarctic Western Ice shelf.
Published on Thursday, 15th May 2014.
The first living organism is created using artificial DNA with man-made genetic letters
Published on Thursday, 8th May 2014.
How can you get jet fuel from thin air? Just add water, carbon dioxide and sunlight.
Published on Thursday, 1st May 2014.
Adam Rutherford finds out, when it comes to chromosomes, what's the point of the Y.
Published on Thursday, 24th April 2014.
Tracey Logan finds out how a sperm recognises an egg.
Published on Thursday, 17th April 2014.
Tracey Logan asks whether killing whales for science can be justified?
Published on Thursday, 10th April 2014.
Tracey Logan unpicks new research on calorie restriction.
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2014.
Gareth Mitchell is joined by BBC School reporters to get their take on the week’s science.
Published on Thursday, 27th March 2014.
Gareth Mitchell explores the compelling new evidence for the Big Bang Theory.
Published on Thursday, 20th March 2014.
Are black boxes outdated technology? Adam Rutherford asks about ways to track aircraft.
Published on Thursday, 13th March 2014.
Dr Lucie Green on how Syria's chemical weapons are being neutralised and made safe.
Published on Thursday, 6th March 2014.
Adam Rutherford looks at controlling paralysed bodies using thought.
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2014.
Bee diseases, whale-spotting question, epigenetics of pain and genes for sexual preference
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2014.
Dr Lucie Green discovers how underwater whales can be spotted from space.
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2014.
Adam Rutherford asks architects and engineers how to protect homes against floods.
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2014.
Adam Rutherford asks: What did the Neanderthals ever do for us?
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2014.
Tiny particles and the huge and hugely expensive experiments needed in order to find them.
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2014.
Personal genetics kits - useful service or unregulated, irresponsible and gimmicky?
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2014.
The astrophysicists, the poker game, and the search for time travellers in our midst.
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2014.
Who lived in Britain thousands of years ago, and how do we know?
Published on Monday, 6th January 2014.
Bacteriophages as a tool to fight infections; bees and their electric sensing for nectar
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2013.
The voyage to map a billion stars - the GAIA satellite camera is launched into space.
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2013.
Scientists are ready to form the vanguard in the fight to protect UK food from criminals.
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2013.
The global march of valley-girl 'uptalk' - now men too are upwardly inflecting.
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2013.
Adam Rutherford toasts microbial 'terroir', the fungi and bacteria that make grapes unique
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2013.
The citizen science army who've logged 19 million birds for the new UK Ireland Bird Atlas.
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2013.
How DNA matching techniques can help identify those who perished in Typhoon Haiyan.
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2013.
Dr Lucie Green on putting your sequenced DNA, your personal genome, on the internet.
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2013.
Dust in space - Dr Lucie Green on the LADEE Moon Mission and the perils of moon dirt.
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2013.
Adam Rutherford asks how radioactive waste from Hinkley C nuclear plant will be dealt with
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2013.
Robert Plomin on why Michael Gove's advisor is right to highlight genetics in education.
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2013.
With the US government on lockdown, Dr Adam Rutherford considers the risks for science.
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2013.
Adam Rutherford explores the science behind the menopause and the uncertainty of science.
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2013.
Adam Rutherford tackles the subject of fracking in the UK, sorting myth from science fact.
Published on Thursday, 26th September 2013.
Adam Rutherford asks how difficult it is to destroy chemical weapons.
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2013.
Is this week's new stem cell research a breakthrough for regenerative medicine?
Published on Thursday, 12th September 2013.
Will the proposed ice wall at Fukushima nuclear plant finally fix their radioactive leaks?
Published on Thursday, 5th September 2013.
Alice Roberts looks at research bias, training sniffer dogs, mapping roadkill and lasers
Published on Thursday, 29th August 2013.
The science of artificial reefs, and why our feet are more ape-like than we thought.
Published on Thursday, 22nd August 2013.
Search for a universal flu vaccine, and the scientists using online games for research.
Published on Thursday, 15th August 2013.
New goal line technology kicks in this month - Adam Rutherford looks at how Hawk-Eye works
Published on Thursday, 8th August 2013.
With seven disasters last month, Adam Rutherford asks if trains crash more often in summer
Published on Thursday, 1st August 2013.
Dr Adam Rutherford explores supermaterials, brain scanning and Antarctic architecture.
Published on Thursday, 25th July 2013.
Publication of the annual government statistics on scientific research on animals.
Published on Thursday, 18th July 2013.
Could the same knowledge used to save lives create viruses to use as weapons of terror?
Published on Thursday, 11th July 2013.
Bovine TB, sunscreens from nature, and cleaning up space junk.
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2013.
