成人快手 Inside Science Podcast
A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
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Are trees the answer to solving climate change?
Thu 19 Jun 2025
We investigate the role our forests are playing in offsetting carbon emissions.
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What science is the UK government funding?
Thu 12 Jun 2025
The government sets out spending plans on five years of science. Where will the money go?
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Can science save our oceans?
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Inside Science heads to the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, France.
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Your science questions answered
Thu 29 May 2025
We answer a selection of fascinating science questions, from Nikola Tesla to microplastics
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Does the pandemic agreement make the world safer?
Thu 22 May 2025
An international agreement to prepare for future pandemics is adopted. What does it mean?
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Will the Hole in the Ozone Layer Close?
Thu 15 May 2025
40 years since we discovered a hole in the Ozone layer, we ask what threatens it today
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The mysteries of the ocean floor
Thu 8 May 2025
A new study says 99.999% of the world鈥檚 deep seafloor is still unseen by humans.
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How vulnerable is our power supply?
Thu 1 May 2025
Massive power cuts brought parts of Spain, Portugal and France to a standstill this week.
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What would cuts to Nasa mean for space science?
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Reaction to White House proposals to cut funding for Nasa and a future asteroid fly past
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Answers to Your Science Questions
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Translating noisy geese to time travel across the universe.
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How can science help us fight wildfires?
Thu 10 Apr 2025
In the past few days, UK firefighters have been tackling wildfires across the UK.
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Is this finally the moment for UK tidal power?
Thu 3 Apr 2025
A tidal lagoon should be created in the Severn Estuary according to a new report.
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Is everything we know about the universe wrong?
Thu 27 Mar 2025
How a 鈥榙ark energy鈥� experiment could upend Einstein's theory of the universe.
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Wild birds in crisis
Thu 20 Mar 2025
And after two Nasa astronauts were finally brought home, we ask why SpaceX stole the show.
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Are boys doing better than girls at maths and science?
Thu 13 Mar 2025
...and what happens to the body when you spend a year in space?
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Better Than Gold: Critical Minerals
Thu 6 Mar 2025
Inside Science unearths everything you need to know about these precious resources.
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AI in Science: Promise and Peril
Thu 27 Feb 2025
Google has launched a new AI tool called Co-Scientist. How good is it?
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Biotech Risks and Asteroid Anxiety
Thu 20 Feb 2025
An asteroid is heading in our direction. Will it hit us in 2032?
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US science in chaos
Thu 13 Feb 2025
The United States is the world鈥檚 science superpower. But is their role under threat?
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The World鈥檚 Biggest Iceberg
Thu 6 Feb 2025
And what does locking up a load of radioactive waste have in common with baking a cake?
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Is 1.5 still alive?
Thu 30 Jan 2025
And new clues about how life on Earth began from a dusty old space rock.
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Next-gen batteries and 'dark oxygen'
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Is it time to replace the little chemical factories in our pockets with something better?
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UK AI & science-optimised pasta
Thu 16 Jan 2025
The positives and pitfalls of AI in medicine and a pasta recipe with added physics.
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The Science of Laughter
Thu 2 Jan 2025
A presenter, a comedian and a neuroscientist walk into a tent in Wales...
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Board Game Science
Boxing Day 2024
This festive season we unravel the science of games - and, of course, play some ourselves.
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The rising threat of bird flu
Thu 12 Dec 2024
How close is a bird flu pandemic? We explore a year of changes in this concerning virus.
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Fact-checking the Bovaer backlash
Thu 5 Dec 2024
How is cow feed additive Bovaer tackling methane from burpy cows 鈥� and is it safe?
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Is flood forecasting failing?
Thu 28 Nov 2024
We find out how flooding is forecast 鈥� and ask what went wrong in the recent UK floods.
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