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Life on Mars? Quantum Gravity. The deep origins of bird song

New mission searching for signs of life on Mars about to arrive at the Red Planet

• 30 mins

HFC Ban; Human Cell Atlas; Origin of Hunting with Dogs

A map of the 37 trillion cells in the body and when did humans first use dogs for hunting?

• 30 mins

Making mozzies safe with a microbe, CO2 at 400 ppm, Chixculub crater rocks, Why Mars Lander failed

Fighting Zika and dengue virus with an insect bacterium.

• 30 mins

Italy's quakes, Ebola virus, Accidental rocket fuel, China in space

Italy's earthquakes: is there a pattern?

• 30 mins

Climate change questions, Animal computer interaction, Sounds and meaning across world's languages

Climate change - listeners' questions answered.

• 30 mins

Does Pluto have an ocean, Antarctica's oldest ice, Meat emissions, Swifts fly ten months non-stop

Does Pluto have an ocean under its ice crust?

• 30 mins

Predator bacteria therapy, New money for UK science, Stick-on stethoscope, Taming fears in the brain scanner

Can we use predatory bacteria as treatments for antibiotic resistant infections?

• 30 mins

Alzheimers research, Lucy in the Scanner, Smart bandages, From supernovae to Hollywood

How well do we understand Alzheimers disease after the latest drug trial disappointment?

• 30 mins

Rock traces of life on Mars, Desert fireball network, Gut microbes and Parkinson's Disease, Science Museum's maths exhibition

Could rocks discovered by the Mars rover Spirit contain the hallmarks of ancient life?

• 30 mins

Weather on a distant exoplanet, Diamond batteries from nuclear waste, Craters, Avalanches and glaciers, Solar geoengineering

A windy weather report from 1,000 light years away.

• 30 mins

Inuits and Denisovans, Sex and woodlice, Peace through particle physics, Caspar the octopus in peril?

Can Inuits survive the Arctic cold thanks to deep past liaisons with another species?

• 30 mins

Listeners' Questions

Adam Rutherford puts listeners' science questions to his team of experts.

• 30 mins

RIP Granny the oldest Orca - Graphene + Silly Putty - Moving a Giant Magnet - Space in 2017

Science mourns the death of the world's oldest killer whale, 'Granny'.

• 30 mins

The perils of explaining science, Living to 500, What's good for your teeth and The future of stargazing

Why the simplest explanations are not always the best when it comes to science.

• 30 mins

Antarctic science rescue, Killing cancer with viruses, Measuring wind from space and the Last man on the moon

Why the British Antarctic science base is being temporarily abandoned.

• 30 mins

Crime, volcanoes, ghosts and how we are influenced by the genes of unrelated others

How the genes of unrelated others can influence our health and behaviour.

• 30 mins

Wildlife trafficking, New quantum computers, Ancient bird beaks, Glassblowing.

How measures set up to conserve endangered species are being eroded.

• 30 mins

Measuring human impact on earth, Awards for engineers, Sounds of space junk.

Quantifying the impact of humanity on the earth's natural systems.

• 30 mins

Science and cyber security, Dinosaur babies, Winston Churchill and level crossings

Testing cyber security with science.

• 30 mins

The perils of fake science news, The neanderthal inside us, What The Beatles really sang - statistically speaking

How a woolly story about resurrecting mammoths raises serious questions for medical ethics

• 30 mins

Earth's Earliest Life, The Benefits of Pollution, Sexuality and Science and New ideas on Evolution

The World's oldest sedimentary rocks reveal traces of our earliest ancestors.

• 30 mins

Rise of the Robots: 1. The history of things to come

Adam Rutherford explores the role of robots in past societies

• 28 mins

Rise of the Robots: 2. More human than human

Adam Rutherford explores our relationship with contemporary humanoid robots

• 28 mins

Cells and Celluloid: Aliens on Film

With Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock.

• 57 mins

Rise of the Robots: 3. Where is my mind?

Adam Rutherford asks if we are ready for artificial intelligences making decisions for us

• 27 mins

Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, Aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones

Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones

• 30 mins

Comet 67P images; Etna eruption; Brain navigation; Octopus intelligence

Comet 67P images, Etna eruption, brain navigation, octopus intelligence.

• 30 mins

Climate change and extreme weather; Primate brain size; Earthquake forecasting; Planet 9

Climate change and extreme weather; primate brain size; earthquake forecasting; planet 9.

• 30 mins

Creation of island Britain, Sleep gene, Mary Kelly forensics, Global Tree Search survey

How a megaflood severed Britain's connection to what is now France 450,000 years ago.

• 30 mins

23andMe Genetic Sequencing, Human Knockout genes, Coral Bleaching

23andMe genetic sequencing, Human knockout genes, Coral bleaching.

• 30 mins