Podcast Episodes

The UK's first satellite launch

The UK's first satellite launch faced several delays in 2022, but Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl is prepped for imminent take off. BBC science correspond…

3 years, 2 months ago

Game changers

Nations are racing to protect 30% of the planet by 2030 in an attempt to halt biodiversity loss, but one novel approach may be able to safeguard spec…

3 years, 2 months ago

A Scientifically Superior Christmas Dinner

How many Scientists does it take to cook Christmas dinner? Marnie seeks help from a food scientist, a geneticist, a doctor and a botanist to create t…

3 years, 3 months ago

Cancer cure, Strep A research and hopes for biodiversity

Base editing is a technique for substituting the building blocks of DNA. It has only been around for a few years, so its use to apparently cure cance…

3 years, 3 months ago

Biodiversity

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity summit, currently taking place in Montreal Canada, intends to develop ways of reducing the global loss of b…

3 years, 3 months ago

Killer smog

For a week at the beginning of December 1952, London was under a blanket of deadly smog. As a result, the Clean Air Act came into force a few years l…

3 years, 3 months ago

Science funding

The UK has the opportunity to access European science funding. However disagreements over the Northern Ireland protocol are preventing the UK from jo…

3 years, 3 months ago

Climate science and politics

As the COP27 environment summit draws to a close we look at some of the issues still to be resolved. BBC Environment correspondents Victoria Gill and…

3 years, 4 months ago

COP27

One key issue on the agenda at the COP27 environment summit in Egypt is how to fund damage from the effects of man made climate change.

Often the ef…

3 years, 4 months ago

Monkeypox

A new study published in the British Medical Journal suggests monkey pox might be passed from person to person before symptoms show. Esther Freeman, …

3 years, 4 months ago