Nasa's Perseverance - will it pay off? And spotting likely hosts for future pandemics.

Landing, driving, flying on Mars, and where on Earth to look out for the next big virus.

• 49 mins

Good COP Bad COP, Shotgun Lead Persistence, and Featherdown Adaptation

UN Environment Programme publishes Making Peace With Nature report ahead of COP 26.

• 30 mins

Blue carbon; inside Little Foot's skull; reading locked letters

Blue carbon; seeing inside Little Foot's skull; reading locked letters with X rays.

• 30 mins

China's green growth plan

China’s five-year plan; cloning the black footed ferret; seals lending a flipper.

• 27 mins

Human embryo research and ethics; sperm whale social learning; Antikythera mechanism

Human embryo research and ethics; sperm whale social learning; Antikythera mechanism.

• 31 mins

Halfway to net zero; hydrogen as a fuel; Fagradalsfjall, Iceland’s active volcano

Halfway to net zero; hydrogen as a fuel; Fagradalsfjall, Iceland’s active volcano.

• 41 mins

Science funding cuts; Mice get Covid-19; Native oyster reintroductions

Science funding cuts; Mice and Covid-19; Native oyster reintroduction.

• 28 mins

Disobedient particles, noisy gorillas, sharks and fictional languages

Disobedient particles, noisy gorillas, sharks and fictional languages.

• 30 mins

Blood clots, grieving and the emotion of screams

Evolving research on blood clots associated with vaccines, the emotion of screams, grief.

• 28 mins

Coronavirus variants and vaccines, climate change resistant coffee, dare to repair and how to get rid of moths

Coronavirus variants, climate change resistant coffee, dare to repair and clothes moths.

• 28 mins

Dragonfly on Titan, Retreating Glaciers, Surge Testing, Acoustic lighthouses

Dragonfly on Titan, Retreating Glaciers, Surge Testing for Covid 19, Acoustic lighthouses.

• 28 mins

Early burials, diversity in Tudor England, a malaria vaccine, and rogue brain waves

Early burials, diversity in Tudor England, a malaria vaccine, and rogue brain waves.

• 27 mins

Microplastics in UK river beds

Victoria Gill wades into the microplastic problems in UK riverbeds.

• 35 mins

Blood Clot Cure, Synthetic Fuels and Coal Mine Heat Pumps

Viennese scientists describe a cure for infamous vaccine-induced thrombosis.

• 42 mins

Human use of plants beyond the limits of history.

Vic Gill and guests take a look at human impacts on the earth over thousands of years.

• 35 mins

Lab origin theory of SARS-Cov2; gene for obesity; dark matter map; rock art in Scotland

Lab leak theory of SARS-Cov2; gene for obesity; dark matter map; rock art in Scotland

• 31 mins

Covid vaccines in children; preventing dengue; algal blooms; supersonic flight

Covid vaccines in children; preventing dengue; algal blooms; supersonic flight.

• 31 mins

Cov-Boost trial; SARS-Cov 2 infection in action; sapling guards; why tadpoles are dying

Cov-Boost trial; SARS-Cov 2 infection in action; sapling guards; why tadpoles are dying

• 30 mins

UK science policy shake-up; Ivermectin & Covid; black fungus in Indian Covid patients; many hominins in Siberian cave

How will the new UK strategy affect funding for existing research and future innovation?

• 34 mins

Gene editing gets real

A treatment to change faulty genetic instructions in the liver seems to be successful.

• 31 mins

Covid and our ancient ancestors

The role our genetic inheritance plays in determining how the virus affects us.

• 28 mins

Covid19 - should we test everybody ?

Testing the entire population could stop the virus spreading, but how would we do it?

• 28 mins

A life-changing database

Revolutionising research into every aspect of life.

• 32 mins

Covid 19 – reaching the unvaccinated

How to balance individual rights with the collective action needed to end the pandemic.

• 30 mins

Bees and multiple pesticide exposure

Pesticides more than double the trouble for bees

• 31 mins

IPCC report - extreme weather events

Climate change and extreme weather events.

• 30 mins

Mammoth Journey

Tusk reveals the story of a woolly mammoth's 70,000 kilometre journey

• 30 mins

Window to solve pandemic origins closing

Is time running out to trace the origins of the pandemic?

• 28 mins

Rugby and the brain

New clues on how tackles and knocks impact the brains of professional rugby players.

• 29 mins

Climate change and oil and gas exploration; cutting methane emissions; African wild dog populations; freezing eggs and sperm

What's the future of oil and gas exploration when limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees?

• 29 mins