The news you know, the science you don’t.
World Service,·333 episodes
Virologists studying Covid-19 have been subject to online threats.
19 Nov 2022,·61 mins
Neurons that restore walking in patients with spinal cord injuries have been identified.
12 Nov 2022,·68 mins
Peat can offer us early alarm bells to climate change tipping points.
05 Nov 2022,·53 mins
New data from Nasa reveals information on Mars’ origin and evolution.
30 Oct 2022,·54 mins
A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed
22 Oct 2022,·53 mins
Fusing the brain of a human with a rat could offer insight into neurological disorders
15 Oct 2022,·58 mins
We meet the winners behind this week’s Nobel Prize announcements
08 Oct 2022,·57 mins
Reflections on NASA’s latest mission as it hits an asteroid 11 million km from earth
01 Oct 2022,·53 mins
A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals.
24 Sep 2022,·53 mins
A new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan.
17 Sep 2022,·57 mins
A single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development
10 Sep 2022,·62 mins
The record-breaking heatwave in China and its connection to extreme weather elsewhere
03 Sep 2022,·55 mins
The latest analysis of Nasa’s perseverance discoveries confounds scientists’ expectations
27 Aug 2022,·53 mins
The gloomy predictions for East Africa’s long running drought
20 Aug 2022,·55 mins
Science in the heat of Iceland's new volcanic eruption
13 Aug 2022,·54 mins
Researchers make synthetic mouse embryos with brains and beating hearts from stem cells
06 Aug 2022,·56 mins
James Webb Space Telescope expands our view of the universe ever deeper back in time
30 Jul 2022,·54 mins
Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere - how and why more frequent and more extreme?
23 Jul 2022,·56 mins
A sensational new view of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope.
16 Jul 2022,·63 mins
New insights into the cause of Long Covid ‘brain fog’
09 Jul 2022,·64 mins
New study reveals risk of death as temperatures rise in Latin American cities
02 Jul 2022,·59 mins
Gigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash.
25 Jun 2022,·69 mins
Thirty years on, we ask what has the Earth Summit in Rio achieved?
18 Jun 2022,·61 mins
Science news and highlights of the week
11 Jun 2022,·60 mins
Two recent subtypes of the Omicron virus are much better at evading our immune defences.
04 Jun 2022,·56 mins
New insights into Tonga’s cataclysmic volcanic eruption revealed
28 May 2022,·56 mins
Climate change may have doubled the death rate of rainforest trees over the last 50 years
21 May 2022,·58 mins
Astronomers image the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy
14 May 2022,·64 mins
Vietnam’s vast Mekong Delta is set to sink beneath the sea by the end of the century
07 May 2022,·61 mins
The Indian subcontinent is roasting in a prolonged heatwave. Is climate change to blame?
30 Apr 2022,·65 mins
