BBC 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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Gravitational Waves, UK Spaceport, Big Brains and Extinction Risk, Conservation in Papua New Guinea
Thu 18 Feb 2016
Adam Rutherford puts listeners' gravitational wave queries to cosmologist Andrew Pontzen.
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Gravitational Waves Special
Thu 11 Feb 2016
Gravitational waves detected - scientists prove Einstein right after 100 years.
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UK pollinators' food, Brain implant, Holograms, Lunar 9
Thu 4 Feb 2016
How charting the UK's nectar-providing flowers could help pollinating insects.
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Zika, Penguins, Erratum, Fossil fish
Thu 28 Jan 2016
What can science reveal about the Zika virus and microcephaly?
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Ancient Britons' DNA, Concorde's 40th Anniversary, Giant dinosaur, New planet?
Thu 21 Jan 2016
Adam Rutherford examines the genetics of ancient Britons and reminisces about Concorde.
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The 100,000 Genome Project, Stem cell doping, Nuclear waste, Dinosaur sex
Thu 14 Jan 2016
Adam Rutherford finds out how the 100,000 Genome Project is helping children and families.
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El Nino Special
Thu 7 Jan 2016
How the current El Nino event is affecting lives in the UK and around the world.
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New Horizons Pluto update; friendly predatory bacteria; Christmas in the lab; human ancestry
Christmas Eve 2015
New Horizons Pluto update;friendly predatory bacteria;Christmas in the lab;human ancestry
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Tim Peake's mission to the ISS, Spaceman Chris Hadfield, AGU round-up, Air pollution, Human Evolution at the NHM
Thu 17 Dec 2015
Astronaut Chris Hadfield gives Tim Peake advice on how to cope in space.
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Flooding, Scientific modelling, Magnetoreception, Escalators
Thu 10 Dec 2015
Adam Rutherford asks how models can help to predict floods and improve defences.
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Science funding, Carbon capture storage, Graphene
Thu 3 Dec 2015
Adam Rutherford questions the latest government science funding review.
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Ancient farmers' genomes, Alice at Cern, Astrophysics questions
Thu 26 Nov 2015
Ancient genome research shows the effect of the introduction of farming to Europe.
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Antarctic ice sheet instability, Groundwater, Accents, Fluorescent coral
Thu 19 Nov 2015
Melting Antarctic ice sheet will not lead to as big a sea level rise as previously thought
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Sex-change tree, Pluto's cryovolcanoes, Sellafield's plutonium, Ant super-organisms
Thu 12 Nov 2015
Adam Rutherford asks whether Britain's oldest tree has changed sex.
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Grid cells and time, Boole, How your brain shapes your life
Thu 5 Nov 2015
Tracey Logan unpicks how people's brains work and discusses maverick scientist Boole.
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Oxygen on comet 67P; Bees and antimicrobial drugs; Reproducibility of science experiments; Reintroduction of beavers
Thu 29 Oct 2015
Oxygen detected on comet 67P doesn’t fit with models of early Solar System formation.
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Animal experiments, Bees and diesel, Sense Ocean, Readability of IPCC report
Thu 22 Oct 2015
Latest stats shows UK scientists used fewer research animals last year. Or did they?
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Time Travel in Science and Cinema
Thu 15 Oct 2015
Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock explore time travel in science and cinema.
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Ethiopian genome, Coral nutrients, The hunt for gravitational waves, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Thu 8 Oct 2015
Adam Rutherford meets Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.
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Write on Kew festival at Kew Gardens, Preserving global biodiversity
Thu 1 Oct 2015
Adam Rutherford is at Kew Gardens to discuss challenges in preserving global biodiversity.
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Listeners' Science Questions
Thu 24 Sep 2015
Adam Rutherford is joined by guests to answer listener questions.
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Pluto images, Space elevator, Insect migration, Imagination app
Thu 17 Sep 2015
Adam Rutherford looks at the new photos of Pluto which were beamed back to Earth this week
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Homo Naledi, New spacesuit, Quantum biology, A possible cure for motion sickness
Thu 10 Sep 2015
Tracey Logan investigates an ancient human and a zero-gravity space suit.
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El Nino, Sphagnum moss and peatlands, Inside Cern, Measuring air pollution with iPhones
Thu 3 Sep 2015
Tracey Logan investigates the El Nino warnings and the search for the Higgs boson.
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20/08/2015
Thu 20 Aug 2015
Gareth Mitchell asks whether paleolithic people ate carbs and why corals are in peril.
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Scottish GM ban, Earth's magnetic field, OCD, Birth of a new galaxy
Thu 13 Aug 2015
Scottish GM ban, the Earth's magnetic field, life with OCD, and how galaxies are born.
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Pluto's surface, Increased Arctic ice in 2013, Linking brains together, Signals of fertility
Thu 23 Jul 2015
Adam Rutherford presents news on the latest New Horizons images of Pluto's surface.
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Pluto: New Horizons
Thu 16 Jul 2015
The flyby of Pluto. Adam Rutherford with early pictures from New Horizons space probe.
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Intrusive memories, Silent aircraft, Nuclear fusion, Pluto
Thu 9 Jul 2015
Adam Rutherford investigates intrusive memories, silent aircraft, nuclear fusion and Pluto
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