Building Better Engagement

Why does scientific communication matter and how might it be done better?

• 34 mins

The Ebb and Flow of the Tidal Power Revolution

What do we know about the mysterious cases of hepatitis in children?

• 43 mins

Precious Metals, Earlier Eggs, and Meaningful Meteorites

How bacteria could soon harvest precious metals from your old phone.

• 32 mins

Running Rings Around Matter

A remarkable image of the supermassive black hole at the middle of the Milky Way.

• 28 mins

Buried Mars Landers, Freezing Species, and Low-Tide Archaeology

Why Nasa's Marsquake monitor is powering down for good.

• 28 mins

Monkeypox, Pompeii aDNA, and Elephant Mourning Videos

Why are non-African monkeypox cases causing concern?

• 35 mins

A Reign of Science

Marnie Chesterton and guests take a walkabout through 70 years of science.

• 38 mins

Miscounting Carbon, EU Funding Stalemate, and How to Make a Royal Hologram

A stalemate in EU/UK science cooperation, and secrets of the jubilee 'hologram' revealed.

• 33 mins

Inside Sentience

How could we spot a synthetic sentience even if we had made one?

• 28 mins

Engineering Around Mercury, Science Festivals, and The Rise of The Mammals

How hard is it to get to Mercury and why are we going?

• 28 mins

10 Years of the Higgs Boson

July 2022 marks 10 years since the Higgs Boson was confirmed to exist. What next?

• 28 mins

Robotic Thumbs, Mending Bones with Magnets, and the State of Science this Summer

A trip round the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2022.

• 27 mins

Deep Space and the Deep Sea - 40 years of the International Whaling Moratorium.

The James Webb Space Telescope is finally in business - what treasures yet to come?

• 27 mins

Multiverses, melting glaciers and what you can tell from the noise of someone peeing

What came before the Big Bang; why the theory of the multiverse makes sense.

• 27 mins

Heatwave: the consequences

What are the consequences of the recent UK heatwave for us, plants and our energy supply.

• 34 mins

Shaun The Sheep Jumps Over The Moon, Bronze Age Kissing and PPE Rubbish

ESA announce that Shaun The Sheep will fly around the moon this month aboard Artemis 1.

• 31 mins

Amplified Arctic Amplification and Microclot Clues to Post-Viral Disease

Arctic warming around four times faster than previously thought.

• 27 mins

A Possible Sequel to the Dinosaur Armageddon

Did the Chicxulub meteor that did for the dinosaurs have a smaller cousin?

• 30 mins

Return of the ozone hole

Australian fires have impacted the ozone layer.

• 29 mins

Dealing with drought

Dealing with drought, satellite clutter and mucus evolution.

• 31 mins

Ancient Amputation

How hunter gatherers in Borneo successfully performed surgery thousands of years ago.

• 28 mins

Is the James Webb Space Telescope too good?

Is the James Webb Space Telescope too good?

• 28 mins

Science collaborations – with Russia

How the war in Ukraine is impacting international research

• 31 mins

Fracking Science

The moratorium on fracking has been lifted, but what does the science say?

• 32 mins

Coronavirus - new variants

What does virus evolution mean for Covid severity as we head into winter?

• 34 mins

Avian flu

A new strain of the virus is taking a toll on both wild birds and poultry.

• 29 mins

The BBC at 100

Science, technology and the future of broadcasting.

• 50 mins

Turtle Voices, a Pandemic Retrospective and a Nose-Picking Primate

Turtle voices shed light on the evolutionary origins of vocal communication.

• 31 mins

Monkeypox

Could you have it and not know ?

• 34 mins

COP27

Loss and damage, Funding climate change impacts

• 32 mins