ÃÛÑ¿´«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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Ordnance Survey - Britain's 220-year-old tech company; Launching synthetic voices and personality test
Thu 13 Feb 2020
Ordnance Survey - 220-year-old tech company, synthetic voices and personality test.
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Solar Orbiter launch; Mutational signatures in cancer; paleo-oncology
Thu 6 Feb 2020
Solar Orbiter launch; Mutational signatures in cancer; paleo-oncology
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Coronavirus update, Typhoid Mary and 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica
Thu 30 Jan 2020
Coronavirus update, Typhoid Mary and 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica
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Coronavirus outbreak in China; Genetic diseases in Amish communities and getting an Egyptian mummy to speak
Thu 23 Jan 2020
Coronavirus outbreak in China, Amish genetic diseases and Egyptian mummy speaks.
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Reproducibility crisis in science; Aeolus wind-measuring satellite; electric cars
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Reproducibility crisis in science, Aeolus wind-measuring satellite, and electric cars.
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Australian bush fires; Veganuary and LIGO
Thu 9 Jan 2020
Gareth Mitchell discusses the Australian bush fires; Veganuary and LIGO
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The hidden history in our DNA - Part 2 - Travel and Culture
Thu 2 Jan 2020
The hidden history in our DNA - Part 2 - Travel and Culture
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The hidden history in our DNA - Part 1 - Sex and Disease
Boxing Day 2019
The hidden history in our DNA - Part 1 - Sex and Disease
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Ten years of Zooniverse; what happened to volcano Anak Krakatau and visualising maths
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Ten years of Zooniverse; what happened to volcano Anak Krakatau and visualising maths.
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Earliest hunting scene cave painting; animal domestication syndrome
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Earliest prehistoric hunting scene; fox domestication study flaw
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Global Carbon Emissions; Parker Solar Probe and simulating swaying buildings
Thu 5 Dec 2019
Global Carbon Emissions; Simulating swaying buildings and Parker Solar Probe
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What's the problem with palm oil and should we be supporting sustainably grown oil? Virtual reality skin
Thu 28 Nov 2019
Should we be supporting sustainably grown palm oil? Virtual reality skin
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Noise pollution and wildlife; No till farming; Cornwall's geothermal heat
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Noise pollution and wildlife; No till farming; Cornwall's geothermal heat
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Soils and floods, Air pollution and ultra-low emission zones, detecting the drug Spice
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Soils and floods, air pollution and ultra-low emission zones, detecting the drug Spice
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Fracking moratorium; Bloodhound; Big Compost Experiment; transit of Mercury
Thu 7 Nov 2019
Fracking moratorium; Bloodhound; Big Compost Experiment; transit of Mercury
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African genomes sequenced; Space weather; sports head injuries
Thu 31 Oct 2019
African genomes sequenced; Space weather; sports head injuries.
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Organic farming emissions; Staring at seagulls; Salt and dementia
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Agriculture and greenhouse gases: We answer your questions
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Ebola model, Partula snails, Malaria origin
Thu 17 Oct 2019
Ebola model, partula snails, malaria origin.
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Extinction Rebellion, UK net zero emissions and climate change; Nobel Prizes
Thu 10 Oct 2019
XR protest – how best to reach net zero emissions? And science and culture of Nobel Prizes
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HIV protective gene paper retraction, Imaging ancient Herculaneum scrolls, Bill Bryson's The Body
Thu 3 Oct 2019
HIV protective gene paper retraction, imaging Herculaneum scrolls, Bill Bryson's The Body.
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Oceans, ice and climate change; Neolithic baby bottles; Caroline Criado-Perez wins RS Book Prize
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Oceans, ice and climate change; Neolithic baby bottles; and Caroline Criado Perez
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MOSAiC Arctic super-expedition, Likely extinction of the Bahama nuthatch, Tim Smedley's book on air pollution
Thu 19 Sep 2019
MOSAiC expedition, Bahama nuthatch and Tim Smedley's book on air pollution.
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Model embryos from stem cells, Paul Steinhardt's book on impossible crystals, Mother Thames
Thu 12 Sep 2019
Model embryos, Paul Steinhardt's book on impossible crystals and Mother Thames.
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Inventing GPS, Carbon nanotube computer, Steven Strogatz and Monty Lyman discuss calculus and skin
Thu 5 Sep 2019
Inventing GPS, carbon nanotube computer, RS Prize shortlisted books on calculus and skin.
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Amazon fires, Royal Society Book Prize shortlist announced, John Gribben on quantum physics
Thu 29 Aug 2019
Amazon fires, Royal Society Book Prize shortlist, and John Gribben on quantum physics.
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UK's black squirrels' genetic heritage; nuclear fusion in the UK and the Royal Society's science book prize
Thu 22 Aug 2019
UK's black squirrels' genetic heritage; nuclear fusion and the Royal Society's book prize.
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UK power cut, Huge dinosaur find in Wyoming, Micro-plastics in Arctic snow
Thu 15 Aug 2019
UK power cut, huge dinosaur find in Wyoming and micro-plastics in Arctic snow
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Making the UK's dams safe, AI spots fake smiles, How many trees should we be planting?
Thu 8 Aug 2019
Making the UK's dams safe; AI spots fake smiles and how many trees should we be planting?
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Lovelock at 100; Hydrothermal vents and antibiotic resistance in the environment
Thu 1 Aug 2019
James Lovelock at 100, hydrothermal vents and antibiotic resistance in the environment
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False positives in genetic test kits, Impact of fishing on ocean sharks, Sex-change fish
Thu 25 Jul 2019
False positives in genetic test kits, impact of fishing on sharks, and sex-change species.
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