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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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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COVID-19 in Winter, Acoustics of Stonehenge and Dog years
Thu 17 Sep 2020
COVID-19 in winter; acoustics of Stonehenge; dog years.
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Coronavirus: The types of vaccine; How the UK is scaling up vaccine production
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Coronavirus: the types of vaccine; how the UK is scaling up vaccine production.
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Bird and dinosaur skull evolution; the wonders of yeast and Science Museum mystery object
Thu 3 Sep 2020
Bird and dinosaur skull evolution; the wonders of yeast and Science Museum mystery object
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What does the science say about the COVID risks of schools reopening? Dolphin ear autopsy
Thu 27 Aug 2020
What does the science say about the Covid risks of schools reopening? Dolphin ear autopsy.
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Smart bricks, The Royal Academy of Engineering awards for pandemic engineering solutions and detecting SARS-Cov-2 in sewage
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Smart bricks, awards for pandemic engineering solutions and detecting Covid in sewage.
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Land use and zoonoses, California's earthquake risk and the Tuatara genome
Thu 13 Aug 2020
Land use and zoonoses, Los Angeles’ earthquake risk and the Tuatara genome.
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How sperm swim, the theory of soil & the Big Compost Experiment update
Thu 6 Aug 2020
How sperm actually swim, the theory of soil and an update on the Big Compost Experiment.
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Science Museum mystery objects; home security camera security and Rosalind Franklin at 100
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Science Museum mystery objects; home security camera security and Rosalind Franklin at 100
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Pre-prints over peer review during the COVID pandemic and roads and birds
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Pre-prints over peer review during the COVID pandemic, and roads and birds.
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Science Fraud & Bias, Immunity to COVID-19
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Adam Rutherford explores fraud and bias in science. And immunity to SARS-CoV-2.
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Satellite navigation in the UK; the science of the World Wide Web and Neolithic genomics
Thu 9 Jul 2020
Satellite navigation in the UK; the science of the World Wide Web; Neolithic genomics
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Preventing pandemics, invading alien species, blood types & COVID-19.
Thu 2 Jul 2020
Preventing zoonotic pandemics; invasive species; blood groups and COVID-19
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The Human Genome Project's 20th Anniversary
Thu 25 Jun 2020
An Inside Science Special on the 20th anniversary of the Human Genome Project.
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Coronavirus conspiracy, Listeners' mask questions, Solar Orbiter gets close to the Sun
Thu 18 Jun 2020
Coronavirus conspiracies, listeners' mask questions, Solar Orbiter gets close to the Sun
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Engineering out of lockdown and should we castrate male dogs?
Thu 11 Jun 2020
Engineering solutions to reduce the spread of Covid-19, and should we castrate male dogs?
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Back to School and Covid-19 and Ordnance Survey and the pandemic
Thu 4 Jun 2020
Back to School and Covid-19 and Ordnance Survey and the pandemic.
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Testing & Tracing the coronavirus, and the traces our movements leave behind
Thu 28 May 2020
Testing and Tracing the coronavirus, and the traces our everyday movements leave behind.
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Coronavirus-free science, the impact of lockdown on climate change and the odds of both life and intelligent life existing.
Thu 21 May 2020
Marnie Chesterton brings us some coronavirus-free science breakthroughs since lockdown.
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Coronavirus R number, genome study of Covid-19 survivors and using aircraft messages to assess aviation
Thu 14 May 2020
Coronavirus R number, genome study of Covid survivors and assessing aviation with big data
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