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Home of the best science programmes from BBC Radio 4, from the ingenuity behind everyday objects to the biggest questions facing our planet. Released weekly, this podcast is introduced by Dr. Alex Lathbridge.
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28ish Days Later - Day One: Power
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What do you really know about the menstrual cycle? India R...
Political Animals: Sex-Switching Fish and Non-Binary Brains - 3/3
Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural world.
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Political Animals: Mole-Rat Queens and Genital Power - 2/3
Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural world.
I...
Political Animals: Sex, Monkeys and the 'Coy Female' Myth - 1/3
Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural world...
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Wild Inside: The Ocean Sunfish
Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish to unravel this bizarrely shaped predator's ability to swim t...
Wild Inside:The Burmese Python
Ben Garrod and Jess French delve deep inside the predatory Burmese python to examine its extraordinary body plan that enables it to catch, constrict a...
Wild Inside: Jungle Royalty - The Jaguar
Wild Inside embarks on something we hardly ever witness – a look inside some of nature’s most wondrous animals. Its a rare chance to delve deep into s...
The Life Scientific at 10: What does it take to be a scientist?
How damaging is the stereotype of white males in white coats? Do scientists think differently? Or do the qualities we associate with being a nerd do t...
The Sir Patrick Vallance interview
As Chief Scientific Advisor to the government during a pandemic, Sir Patrick Vallance's calm, clear summaries of the state of our scientific understan...
The Men in the White Coats
Prof Andrea Sella on the shifting image of the scientist in popular culture, from Victor Frankenstein to Iron Man via victorious post-war boffinry and...
Celebrating the life of Sir Clive Sinclair: Computers at home
This week in Scientifically… we celebrate the life of Sir Clive Sinclair with this episode from the series Computing Britain that looks at how 'micro...
Jim Al-Khalili's Life Scientific
In an ideal (quantum) world, Jim Al-Khalili would be interviewing himself about his life as a scientist but since the production team can’t access a p...
Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 3
CRISPR is the latest and most powerful technique for changing the genetic code of living things. This method of gene editing is already showing great...
Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 2
Professor Matthew Cobb looks at how genetic engineering became big business - from the first biotech company that produced human insulin in modified b...
Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 1
Biologist Matthew Cobb presents the first episode in a series which looks at the fifty year history of genetic engineering: from the concerns around t...
The Blind Astronomer
This is the story, and the sound, of Puerto Rican scientist Wanda Díaz-Merced, who is revolutionising astronomy by turning data from space into audio...
Dare to Repair: Fixing the Future - Episode 3
Mark Miodownik, explores the environmental consequences of the throwaway society we have become and reveals that recycling electronic waste comes seco...
Dare To Repair: The Right to Repair - Episode 2
Many electronics manufacturers are making it harder and harder for individuals and independent repairers to fix their broken kit. There are claims tha...
Dare To Repair: How We Broke the Future - Episode 1
We love our electronic gadgets, gizmos and appliances. But when it comes to repairing and caring for them, UK citizens are second only to Norway when...
Gagarin and the lost Moon
On 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became an explorer like none other before him, going faster and further than any human in history, into what...
Hardware, Software, Anywhere: Anywhere - Episode 3
Nick Baker’s collection of programmes and interviews reflects on how the impact of technology has changed, from the dawn of language to the age of vir...
Hardware, Software, Anywhere: Hardware - Episode 2
Nick Baker’s collection of programmes and interviews reflects on how the impact of technology has changed, from the dawn of language to the age of vir...
Hardware, Software, Anywhere: Software - Episode 1
Nick Baker’s three-part collection of programmes and interviews reflects on how the impact of technology has changed, from the dawn of language to the...
Laws That Aren't Laws: Stigler's Law - Episode 5
Stephen M. Stigler's Law of Eponymy states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
Professor Stigler, a statisticia...
Laws That Aren't Laws: The Peter Principle - Episode 4
n 1969, Canadian educationist Lawrence J. Peter developed an unorthodox concept that became known as The Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy every employ...
Laws That Aren't Laws: Betteridge's Law of Headlines - Episode 3
If a newspaper headline ends in a question mark, is the answer always no? And if so, are journalists who use them being lazy and cynical?
Ian Be...
Laws That Aren't Laws: Parkinson's Law - Episode 2
Cyril Northcote Parkinson may have trained as a naval historian, but it was his succinct humorous essay for the Economist magazine in 1955 that was to...
Laws That Aren't Laws: Murphy's Law - Episode 1
“If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong.” Murphy’s Law is now a part of our culture, used to describe wrong outcomes of every sort, from how butte...
Long Covid
After becoming ill with covid six months ago, Inside Science presenter Adam Rutherford is only now getting back to normal. He didn’t go to hospital an...
The Genius of Accidents: CRISPR - Episode 5
Having a fast and easy way to cut out and replace genes could revolutionise areas of biology as diverse as medicine and agriculture. And the discovery...
The Genius of Accidents: Jet Streams - Episode 4
Before the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, nobody knew about the invisible streams of air in the middle atmosphere that are important for air travel and...
The Genius of Accidents: The Coelacanth - Episode 3
The coelacanth is a fish that, until 1938, was only known from the fossil record until a young South African curator named Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer...
The Genius of Accidents: The Big Bang - Episode 2
Evidence for the Big Bang at the start of the universe was discovered by accident, using technology developed to record radio waves from space, that w...
The Genius of Accidents: Viagra - Episode 1
Viagra was supposed to be a treatment for the heart condition angina, but during clinical trials an unexpected side effect was noticed by the young ma...
Aleks in Wonderland: Attack of the Zombie Baby Monitors - Episode 3
Can we Control the Dark Side of the Internet? The Internet is the world's most widely used communications tool. It's a fast and efficient way of deliv...
Aleks in Wonderland: The World Wide Villain - Episode 2
With the coming of the World Wide Web in the 1990s internet access opened up to everybody, it was no longer the preserve of academics and computer hob...
Aleks in Wonderland: The International League of Geeky Gentlemen - Episode 1
Just how did the Internet become the most powerful communications medium on the planet, and why does it seem to be an uncontrollable medium for good a...
Climate Change and Me: Richard Dawson - Episode 5
Richard Dawson, Professor of Earth System Engineering at Newcastle University, was the lead author of the Infrastructure section of the UK Climate Cha...
Climate Change and Me: Professor Jennifer Leaning - Episode 4
Five scientists, working in different parts of the world, bear witness to some of the dramatic changes to our planet that have occurred in their lifet...
Climate Change and Me: Professor Mary Edwards - Episode 3
Five scientists, working in different parts of the world, bear witness to some of the dramatic changes to our planet that have occurred in their lifet...