Podcast Episodes

Lovelock at 100; Hydrothermal vents and antibiotic resistance in the environment

James Lovelock is one of the most influential thinkers on the environment of the last half century. His grand theory of planet Earth - Gaia, which is…

6 years, 8 months ago

False positives in genetic test kits, Impact of fishing on ocean sharks, Sex-change fish

Dr Adam Rutherford uncovers the worrying number of false positive results that the DNA sequencing technologies used by 'direct to consumer' genetic t…

6 years, 8 months ago

Turing on the new £50 note, Moon landing on the radio, 25 years since Shoemaker-Levy comet

Code-breaker and father of computer science, Alan Turing has been chosen to celebrate the field of science on the new £50 note. Adam Rutherford asks …

6 years, 9 months ago

Earliest modern human skull, Analysing moon rocks, Viruses lurking in our genomes

A new study shows that 210,000-year-old skull found in Greece is the earliest evidence for modern humans in Eurasia. A second skull found in the same…

6 years, 9 months ago

X-Rays on Mercury, Monkey Tools, Music of Molecules, AI Drivers

The 2019 Royal Society Summer Science exhibition in London is free to enter and continues until Sunday 7th July. BBC Inside Science this week comes f…

6 years, 9 months ago

Global Food Security, Reactive Use-By Labels, Origins of the Potato

On the day that the UK government launches a year long “food-to-Fork” review of food production in the UK, we present a food themed special edition.

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6 years, 9 months ago

Rinderpest destruction, Noise and birdsong, Science as entertainment

Rinderpest – Sequence and Destroy Last week the UK’s Pirbright Institute announced that it had destroyed its remaining stocks of the deadly cattle vi…

6 years, 10 months ago

Net-Zero carbon target, Science Policy Under Thatcher, Screen time measures

Net-Zero Carbon Target The UK is set to become the first member of the G7 industrialised nations group to legislate for net-zero emissions after Ther…

6 years, 10 months ago

CCR5 Mutation Effects, The Surrey Earthquake Swarm, Animal Emotions

Some people have a genetic mutation in a gene called CCR5 that seems to bestow immunity to a form of HIV. This is the mutation which controversial Ch…

6 years, 10 months ago

How maths underpins science

Adam Rutherford and guests at the Hay Festival discuss how maths underwrites all branches of science, and is at the foundation of the modern world.

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6 years, 10 months ago