BBC Inside Science

Science Podcasts

A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.

Episodes

How do you build an unbuildable tower?

How is AI going to change science?

Plankton's untapped potential

El Niño is nigh, but so what?

The science behind hantavirus

Should Pluto become a planet again?

Why is Europe the fastest-warming continent?

Can we prevent the next pandemic?

Forty years on from nuclear disaster

Return to the moon

Responding to your science questions

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The future of space travel

Is quantum computing having its moment?

Is the Earth warming faster than we expected?

How is war being fought in space?

Does new science get us closer to finding out how life on earth began?

How to bury radioactive waste

Will there be a city on the moon in ten years?

Where do forever chemicals come from?