The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
World Service,·1472 episodes
As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?
30 Oct 2025,·31 mins
Two species of coral declared functionally extinct in Florida reefs - can plankton cope?
23 Oct 2025,·37 mins
Ten years on from the Paris climate agreement, has it helped at all?
16 Oct 2025,·38 mins
The 2025 Nobel prizes are announced – how did Science in Action’s predictions fare?
09 Oct 2025,·31 mins
Scientists detect for the first time an unknown source of GPS interference from space.
02 Oct 2025,·36 mins
Epigenetic changes during early brain development and the complexities of autism.
25 Sep 2025,·36 mins
LIGO witnesses two black holes merge just how Hawking predicted.
18 Sep 2025,·26 mins
A special episode from an international planetary science meeting in Helsinki
11 Sep 2025,·26 mins
Earthquakes in Afghanistan this week have left more than 1000 dead. Why?
04 Sep 2025,·28 mins
What can statistical physics say about the “Great Fear” epidemic of revolutionary France?
28 Aug 2025,·37 mins
A desktop nuclear fusion reactor that uses electrochemistry to up the ante
21 Aug 2025,·30 mins
US Health Secretary RFK Jr’s call to retract a study on childhood vaccines is resisted.
14 Aug 2025,·30 mins
Scientists may have discovered the key to preventing anaphylaxis.
07 Aug 2025,·29 mins
The scientist behind the pacific tsunami warning and the decades of work before it.
31 Jul 2025,·30 mins
An astronomical mystery is solved as Betelgeuse’s stellar companion is spotted
24 Jul 2025,·29 mins
Two black holes have collided and combined in the largest merger yet observed.
17 Jul 2025,·27 mins
ESA plans to use satellite gravity data to track weakening ocean circulation systems
10 Jul 2025,·33 mins
There's a surge in human cases and deaths from H5N1 bird flu in Cambodia.
03 Jul 2025,·35 mins
A spectacular new 10-year telescopic survey of the universe gets underway in Chile
26 Jun 2025,·37 mins
Half of the normal matter in the universe has never actually been spotted - until now
19 Jun 2025,·41 mins
ESA’s Solar Orbiter camera probe begins raising its orbit towards the sun’s poles
12 Jun 2025,·34 mins
What is Fusarium graminearum and why were scientists allegedly smuggling it into the US?
05 Jun 2025,·44 mins
China’s audacious Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is underway
29 May 2025,·35 mins
124 countries have agreed on a global effort to fight future pandemic health threats.
22 May 2025,·40 mins
Can the WHO’s Zero by 2030 be achieved for dog-mediated rabies?
15 May 2025,·38 mins
Trump signs executive order restricting funding to ‘dangerous’ biological research
08 May 2025,·26 mins
Earth science in every direction from the European Geosciences Union’s 2025 assembly
01 May 2025,·29 mins
Scientists find yet more data from early Covid to suggest zoonotic cross-over as origin.
24 Apr 2025,·35 mins
It's 60 years since Gordon Moore predicted computing power would double every two years
17 Apr 2025,·29 mins
Researchers grow a mini human pain pathway in a flask for testing pain painlessly
10 Apr 2025,·43 mins