Podcast Episodes

How green is space travel?

The images beamed back to Earth of the first civilian spacewalk have prompted a very pertinent question from one Inside Science listener:

What effec…

1 year, 5 months ago

Is lab-grown meat the future of food?

Lab-grown meat, cultivated meat, cultured meat, in-vitro meat - whatever you call it, the industry claims it could be a game changer. Not just econom…

1 year, 6 months ago

The first civilian spacewalk

Today incredible images were beamed around the world of civilians walking in space – for the very first time.

All eyes were on businessman Jared Is…

1 year, 6 months ago

The Grenfell cladding

As the long-awaited final report into Grenfell Tower is made public, we look at the cladding that has been at the centre of the story for seven years…

1 year, 6 months ago

Predicting everything

The Royal Society recently announced the shortlist for their annual Science Book Prize – and nominated is science writer and journalist Tom Chivers, …

1 year, 6 months ago

Why aren’t we eating more insects?

We try some cricket tacos and ask what role insects might play in our future diets, in a special programme with a live audience at Green Man Festival…

1 year, 7 months ago

Beavers of London

The Ealing Beaver Project has found success as two new beaver kits have been born in a park in London after being reintroduced last October.

Marnie v…

1 year, 7 months ago

Going for gold

Today we will be going for gold in more ways than one.

Inga Doak, the Head of Sustainability at The Royal Mint, reveals how the company plan to ‘urba…

1 year, 7 months ago

How much of a risk is space junk?

Space junk.

It might sound like an out-of-this-world problem that we don’t need to worry about here on Earth – but is it?

As we send more and more m…

1 year, 7 months ago

CERN’s Supercollider Plan

CERN’s plans to build a bigger, faster particle collider, with a hefty 17 billion Euro price tag, are in question. Physicists Andrew Pontzen and Harr…

1 year, 7 months ago