The news you know, the science you don’t.
World Service,·333 episodes
Why do teenagers share passwords so often?
27 Jul 2023,·50 mins
How Barbie is helping humans return to the moon, and is the colour pink actually real?
20 Jul 2023,·50 mins
Nato’s summit has us considering decision-making and the balance of the universe
13 Jul 2023,·50 mins
The team discover mysterious potato shaped nodules and hydroelectric power in your garden
06 Jul 2023,·50 mins
Celebrations of Eid send us on a science-filled odyssey to the stars.
29 Jun 2023,·50 mins
Why does pollen make us sick, what it tells us about the past; and a look at snot palaces
22 Jun 2023,·50 mins
Smog in North America leads us to conservationists using air pollution to track animals.
15 Jun 2023,·50 mins
French pension protests lead us to the lifespans of people, naked mole rats and societies
08 Jun 2023,·50 mins
The science behind migration, a wall of wind and the real life human labour supporting AI
01 Jun 2023,·49 mins
The anniversary of the telegraph sparks an unexpected conversation about bioelectricity.
25 May 2023,·50 mins
Social cohesion, cellular cohesion and glue. Science stories inspired by election news
18 May 2023,·53 mins
Why are rituals so important to humans - and why do they often involve precious objects?
11 May 2023,·50 mins
What does animal DNA from the Wuhan Market reveal about the start of the pandemic?
25 Mar 2023,·77 mins
Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy devastates Mozambique for the second time in one month.
18 Mar 2023,·61 mins
What are the benefits and limitations of gene editing?
11 Mar 2023,·61 mins
Why the long rains in East Africa are forecast to fail again.
04 Mar 2023,·59 mins
Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar and threatens Mozambique and South Africa.
25 Feb 2023,·64 mins
He Jiankui refuses to talk about his controversial genome editing of twin babies in 2018.
18 Feb 2023,·55 mins
Turkey’s most powerful earthquake on record
11 Feb 2023,·53 mins
The different forms of frozen water from ice made in labs to Jupiter’s icy moons
04 Feb 2023,·53 mins
A review of the first mammal to mammal transmission of avian flu, observed in Spain
28 Jan 2023,·51 mins
What happens when climate scientists take to the streets?
21 Jan 2023,·53 mins
The phenomenon driving California’s extreme weather
14 Jan 2023,·60 mins
We take a look at everything we’ve learnt since the Tonga volcano erupted a year ago.
07 Jan 2023,·56 mins
NASA's James Webb Telescope: science in the images
31 Dec 2022,·63 mins
Mosquito pesticide failing
24 Dec 2022,·59 mins
Fusion milestone - the science behind the headlines
17 Dec 2022,·68 mins
Climate change in the Arctic
10 Dec 2022,·62 mins
COVID spreads in China
03 Dec 2022,·65 mins
A distant planet's atmosphere
26 Nov 2022,·55 mins
