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BBC Inside Science

BBC Radio 4

A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.

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677 episodes

  1. The zeptoverse 26:28
  2. The race to protect a third of the world 26:29
  3. Is there time on Mars? 26:28
  4. The climate changing power of 400 billion toasters 26:28
  5. Will AI complete mathematics? 26:28
  6. The future of particle physics 27:44
  7. Do you have the correct time? 26:28
  8. AI to solve the energy crisis? 26:28
  9. What AI agents talk about behind your back 26:28
  10. The quest for dark matter 26:28
  11. The day of the datacentres 26:28
  12. Is the era of the cancer vaccine upon us? 26:28
  13. Should we be scared of AI viruses? 26:28
  14. The state of our substrate: What is drought doing to our soil? 26:28
  15. Are we alone in the universe? 26:29
  16. Testing testosterone testing 26:29
  17. How might we spot nukes in space? 26:29
  18. Are we one step closer to creating life in a lab? 26:28
  19. How do you immortalise natural history? 26:27
  20. Can we engineer ourselves out of a heatwave? 26:29
  21. Finding the evidence for the social media ban 26:29
  22. How do you build an unbuildable tower? 26:28
  23. How is AI going to change science? 26:29
  24. Plankton's untapped potential 26:29
  25. El Niño is nigh, but so what? 26:28
  26. The science behind hantavirus 26:29
  27. Should Pluto become a planet again? 26:28
  28. Why is Europe the fastest-warming continent? 26:29
  29. Can we prevent the next pandemic? 26:28
  30. Forty years on from nuclear disaster 26:29
  31. Return to the moon 26:29
  32. Responding to your science questions 26:29
  33. The future of space travel 26:28
  34. Is quantum computing having its moment? 26:29
  35. Is the Earth warming faster than we expected? 26:29
  36. How is war being fought in space? 26:29
  37. Does new science get us closer to finding out how life on earth began? 26:29
  38. How to bury radioactive waste 26:28
  39. Will there be a city on the moon in ten years? 26:29
  40. Where do forever chemicals come from? 26:28
  41. Should we rethink navigating by GPS? 26:28
  42. How is air travel returning to supersonic speeds? 26:29
  43. Why is Nasa sending people around the moon? 26:29
  44. How rare are Greenland’s rare earth elements? 26:29
  45. How did President Trump transform science in 2025? 26:29
  46. Would our ancestors have benefited from early neanderthals making fire? 26:28
  47. A 'functional' cure for HIV? 26:28
  48. Why aren’t gene therapies more common? 26:28
  49. What’s in the wording of the COP 30 negotiations? 26:29
  50. Could technology replace animal testing in science? 26:29