BBC Inside Science

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

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What would cuts to Nasa mean for space science?
Reaction to White House proposals to cut funding for Nasa and a future asteroid fly past
24 Apr 2025,29 mins
Answers to Your Science Questions
Translating noisy geese to time travel across the universe.
17 Apr 2025,28 mins
How can science help us fight wildfires?
In the past few days, UK firefighters have been tackling wildfires across the UK.
10 Apr 2025,35 mins
Is this finally the moment for UK tidal power?
A tidal lagoon should be created in the Severn Estuary according to a new report.
03 Apr 2025,28 mins
Is everything we know about the universe wrong?
How a ‘dark energy’ experiment could upend Einstein's theory of the universe.
27 Mar 2025,28 mins
Wild birds in crisis
And after two Nasa astronauts were finally brought home, we ask why SpaceX stole the show.
20 Mar 2025,28 mins
Are boys doing better than girls at maths and science?
...and what happens to the body when you spend a year in space?
13 Mar 2025,28 mins
Better Than Gold: Critical Minerals
Inside Science unearths everything you need to know about these precious resources.
06 Mar 2025,28 mins
AI in Science: Promise and Peril
Google has launched a new AI tool called Co-Scientist. How good is it?
27 Feb 2025,28 mins
Biotech Risks and Asteroid Anxiety
An asteroid is heading in our direction. Will it hit us in 2032?
20 Feb 2025,28 mins
US science in chaos
The United States is the world’s science superpower. But is their role under threat?
13 Feb 2025,28 mins
The World’s Biggest Iceberg
And what does locking up a load of radioactive waste have in common with baking a cake?
06 Feb 2025,28 mins
Is 1.5 still alive?
And new clues about how life on Earth began from a dusty old space rock.
30 Jan 2025,28 mins
Next-gen batteries and 'dark oxygen'
Is it time to replace the little chemical factories in our pockets with something better?
23 Jan 2025,30 mins
UK AI & science-optimised pasta
The positives and pitfalls of AI in medicine and a pasta recipe with added physics.
16 Jan 2025,28 mins
Science in 2025
What will happen in science this year?
09 Jan 2025,28 mins
The Science of Laughter
A presenter, a comedian and a neuroscientist walk into a tent in Wales...
02 Jan 2025,28 mins
Board Game Science
This festive season we unravel the science of games - and, of course, play some ourselves.
26 Dec 2024,28 mins
The Year in Science
What were 2024’s biggest science moments?
19 Dec 2024,28 mins
The rising threat of bird flu
How close is a bird flu pandemic? We explore a year of changes in this concerning virus.
12 Dec 2024,28 mins
Fact-checking the Bovaer backlash
How is cow feed additive Bovaer tackling methane from burpy cows – and is it safe?
05 Dec 2024,28 mins
Is flood forecasting failing?
We find out how flooding is forecast – and ask what went wrong in the recent UK floods.
28 Nov 2024,28 mins
The climate cost of war
What is the climate impact of conflicts around the world?
21 Nov 2024,27 mins
Nuclear medicine shortages and Jane Goodall on COP29
What are medical isotopes and why are we short of them? And we chat to Jane Goodall.
14 Nov 2024,28 mins
COP29: Are climate summits working?
What is the point of UN climate conferences, and are they really doing enough?
07 Nov 2024,28 mins
Spooky Science
It’s our Halloween special, featuring blood-sucking leeches, the undead and pumpkin waste.
31 Oct 2024,28 mins
Whatever happened to graphene?
Twenty years on from the discovery of wonder material graphene, is it changing the world?
24 Oct 2024,28 mins
Are our carbon sinks failing?
What’s happening to our carbon sinks?
17 Oct 2024,28 mins
Should we bring back extinct animals?
A US company claims it will bring back a woolly mammoth by 2028 – how and why?
10 Oct 2024,28 mins
Could coal shut-down mark new era for energy?
What difference will closure of the UK’s last coal-fired power station make?
03 Oct 2024,28 mins