Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFracking; Purple GM tomatoes; Bionic humans; Shark attacks
School Report on Fracking This week, Inside Science is taken over by BBC School Reporters and Melissa Hogenboom eavesdrops on a school in Lancashire,…
12 years ago
Cosmic inflation; LISA; Photonic radar; Bird stress camera; Water research; Taxidermy
Cosmic Inflation and Gravity waves Scientists in the BICEP 2 Group say they've found the earliest rumbles of the Big Bang. Theory predicts how the un…
12 years ago
Tracking planes; Peer review; Mega-virus; Astronaut
Are black boxes outdated technology? With GPS widely available in everyday gadgets like mobile phones, how could Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 just …
12 years, 1 month ago
LG - Chemical weapons, Turtles, Tech for wildlife, Climate
Chemical weapons Disposing of Syria's chemical weapons is a difficult task, both politically and technically. The Organisation for the Prohibition of…
12 years, 1 month ago
Brain Machine Interfaces; Question on Gay Genes; Studying Drinking Behaviour
Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis is one of the world's leading researchers into using the mind to control machines. He is involved in the "Walk Again …
12 years, 1 month ago
Bees; Whales; Pain; Gay genes
Bees - Nearly all bees in the UK suffering serious declines. They're mostly threatened by habitat and land-use change. But disease also plays a part.…
12 years, 1 month ago
Whales from space; Flood emails; SUYI JET Lasers; CERN's new tunnel; Discoveries exhibition
Whales from Space. Scientists have demonstrated how new satellite technology can be used to count whales, and ultimately estimate their population si…
12 years, 2 months ago
Engineering for floods; Neanderthal genes; Switching senses; Genes in Space game
The warning that floods are likely to become more common, or more severe, won't be a high priority for those with homes currently deluged. But it is …
12 years, 2 months ago
Neanderthals; Plague; Wind Tunnel; Music Timing; Stem Cells
We now know that Neanderthals and our ancestors interbred over 40,000 years ago. Recent research has shown that most people of European or East Asian…
12 years, 2 months ago
Higgs Boson; Neutrinos; Antarctic echo locator; Rainforest fungi; Alabama rot
The Higgs boson has been discovered, providing the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle for the Standard Model of particle physics, a description of how …
12 years, 2 months ago