´óÏó´«Ã½ Inside Science Podcast
A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
Episodes to download
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Blood clots, grieving and the emotion of screams
Thu 15 Apr 2021
Evolving research on blood clots associated with vaccines, the emotion of screams, grief.
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Disobedient particles, noisy gorillas, sharks and fictional languages
Thu 8 Apr 2021
Disobedient particles, noisy gorillas, sharks and fictional languages.
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Science funding cuts; Mice get Covid-19; Native oyster reintroductions
Thu 1 Apr 2021
Science funding cuts; Mice and Covid-19; Native oyster reintroduction.
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Halfway to net zero; hydrogen as a fuel; Fagradalsfjall, Iceland’s active volcano
Thu 25 Mar 2021
Halfway to net zero; hydrogen as a fuel; Fagradalsfjall, Iceland’s active volcano.
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Human embryo research and ethics; sperm whale social learning; Antikythera mechanism
Thu 18 Mar 2021
Human embryo research and ethics; sperm whale social learning; Antikythera mechanism.
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China's green growth plan
Thu 11 Mar 2021
China’s five-year plan; cloning the black footed ferret; seals lending a flipper.
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Blue carbon; inside Little Foot's skull; reading locked letters
Thu 4 Mar 2021
Blue carbon; seeing inside Little Foot's skull; reading locked letters with X rays.
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Good COP Bad COP, Shotgun Lead Persistence, and Featherdown Adaptation
Thu 25 Feb 2021
UN Environment Programme publishes Making Peace With Nature report ahead of COP 26.
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Nasa's Perseverance - will it pay off? And spotting likely hosts for future pandemics.
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Landing, driving, flying on Mars, and where on Earth to look out for the next big virus.
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Meeting Mars, Melting Ice, Ozone on the Mend Again, and A Sea Cacophany
Thu 11 Feb 2021
Tim Peake on Mars, melting poles and glaciers, CFC anomaly disappears, Oceanic cacophany.
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Putting a number on biodiversity
Thu 4 Feb 2021
Biodiversity, planting trees for good and bad, and the hidden impacts of traffic noise.
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Next Gen Covid Vaccines; Man's Oldest Bestest Friend; Bilingual Brain Development
Thu 28 Jan 2021
What will the next generation of Covid vaccines be like? And when was the first pet dog?
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Vaccine Hesitancy and Ethnicity; The Joy of catnip; Lake Heatwaves
Thu 21 Jan 2021
Unpacking some causes of vaccine hesitancy in different quarters, and what does catnip do?
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UK Science post Brexit; GMOs vs Gene Editing regulation; Identical Twins That Aren't Indentical
Thu 14 Jan 2021
UK Science after Brexit, changing the rules for GMO's, and how identical twins differ.
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Vaccine Dosing and Biodiversity Soundscape Monitoring
Thu 7 Jan 2021
Spacing vaccine doses, and monitoring biodiversity through sound and machine learning.
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Brian Cox and Alice Roberts on a decade of extraordinary science
Thu 31 Dec 2020
Adam Rutherford, Brian Cox and Alice Roberts reflect on a decade of extraordinary science.
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Space Rocks, Aquatic Dinosaurs and Global Temperatures; 2020 science reviewed
Christmas Eve 2020
Dr Adam Rutherford and guests discuss space, dinosaurs and climate science in 2020.
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Covid mutation; On the facial expression of emotions; A mystery object
Thu 17 Dec 2020
Tracking Covid variants, AI v. the expression of human emotions, a mystery museum object.
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Future risk planning; Millennium Seed Bank; Urban trees
Thu 10 Dec 2020
Future risk planning; Millennium Seed Bank; Urban trees.
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Protein folding; Hyabusa sample return; Holiday Covid testing
Thu 3 Dec 2020
AI ‘solves’ protein puzzle; Chasing Asteroids; holiday testing students
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COVID Operation Moonshot; Big Compost Experiment; Gulf of Mexico meteorite and new life
Thu 19 Nov 2020
COVID Operation Moonshot; Big Compost Experiment; Gulf of Mexico meteorite and new life.
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mRNA vaccinations; bacterial space miners; Artemis accords
Thu 12 Nov 2020
How do the new type of mRNA vaccines work actually work? And how lawless is space?
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COVID in families; earthquake under Aegean Sea; Camilla Pang wins science book prize
Thu 5 Nov 2020
COVID in families; earthquake under Aegean Sea; Camilla Pang wins science book prize.
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A new saliva gland, Bill Bryson on the Human Body, and the return of the Dust Bowl
Thu 29 Oct 2020
A new saliva gland, Bill Bryson on the Human Body, and the return of the Dust Bowl.
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COVID reinfections, Susannah Cahalan questions psychiatry and sense of smell and COVID
Thu 22 Oct 2020
COVID reinfections, Susannah Cahalan questions psychiatry, and sense of smell and COVID.
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Test and trace - how the UK compares to the rest of the world; Linda Scott's book The Double X Economy
Thu 15 Oct 2020
COVID test and trace around the world and Linda Scott's book - The Double X Economy
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Brian May's Cosmic Clouds 3-D; How fish move between waterbodies and Jim Al-Khalili's take on physics
Thu 1 Oct 2020
Brian May's 3-D nebulae; how fish move between lakes; Jim Al-Khalili's take on physics.
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Royal Society Science Book Prize - Gaia Vince; Biodiversity loss and Science Museum mystery object
Thu 24 Sep 2020
Royal Society Science Book Prize - Gaia Vince; Biodiversity loss and Science Museum object
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