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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Inside Science Episodes

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    Are boys doing better than girls at maths and science?

    ...and what happens to the body when you spend a year in space?

  2. Better Than Gold: Critical Minerals

    Inside Science unearths everything you need to know about these precious resources.

  3. AI in Science: Promise and Peril

    Google has launched a new AI tool called Co-Scientist. How good is it?

  4. Biotech Risks and Asteroid Anxiety

    An asteroid is heading in our direction. Will it hit us in 2032?

  5. US science in chaos

    The United States is the world’s science superpower. But is their role under threat?

  6. The World’s Biggest Iceberg

    And what does locking up a load of radioactive waste have in common with baking a cake?

  7. Is 1.5 still alive?

    And new clues about how life on Earth began from a dusty old space rock.

  8. Next-gen batteries and 'dark oxygen'

    Is it time to replace the little chemical factories in our pockets with something better?

  9. UK AI & science-optimised pasta

    The positives and pitfalls of AI in medicine and a pasta recipe with added physics.

  10. Science in 2025

    What will happen in science this year?

  11. The Science of Laughter

    A presenter, a comedian and a neuroscientist walk into a tent in Wales...

  12. Board Game Science

    This festive season we unravel the science of games - and, of course, play some ourselves.

  13. The Year in Science

    What were 2024’s biggest science moments?

  14. The rising threat of bird flu

    How close is a bird flu pandemic? We explore a year of changes in this concerning virus.

  15. Fact-checking the Bovaer backlash

    How is cow feed additive Bovaer tackling methane from burpy cows – and is it safe?

  16. Is flood forecasting failing?

    We find out how flooding is forecast – and ask what went wrong in the recent UK floods.

  17. The climate cost of war

    What is the climate impact of conflicts around the world?

  18. Nuclear medicine shortages and Jane Goodall on COP29

    What are medical isotopes and why are we short of them? And we chat to Jane Goodall.

  19. COP29: Are climate summits working?

    What is the point of UN climate conferences, and are they really doing enough?

  20. Spooky Science

    It’s our Halloween special, featuring blood-sucking leeches, the undead and pumpkin waste.

  21. Whatever happened to graphene?

    Twenty years on from the discovery of wonder material graphene, is it changing the world?

  22. Are our carbon sinks failing?

    What’s happening to our carbon sinks?

  23. Should we bring back extinct animals?

    A US company claims it will bring back a woolly mammoth by 2028 – how and why?

  24. Could coal shut-down mark new era for energy?

    What difference will closure of the UK’s last coal-fired power station make?

  25. How green is space travel?

    We discuss whether a boom in space travel could be a problem for Earth’s climate.

  26. Is lab-grown meat the future of food?

    From how it's made to farmers' perceptions, a deep dive into the edible innovation.

  27. The first civilian spacewalk

    Also, the science of what we do with our nuclear waste and why.

  28. The Grenfell cladding

    Why was the Grenfell Tower cladding so dangerous?

  29. Predicting everything

    Also, the latest on Alzheimer's drugs and how we work out Paralympic classifications.

  30. Why aren’t we eating more insects?

    We try some cricket tacos – and ask what role insects might play in our future diets.

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