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Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and challenge the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
Back in May, we checked in on the developments in the eastern Pacific’s ocean currents, that we call El Niño. We said that stirrings in the...
Tom Whipple investigates one of the biggest days in the 10,000 year history of maths. This week, overnight, OpenAI dropped hundreds of mathe...
Tom Whipple travels 100m below Switzerland to the tunnels of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) where the beams have been powered down to be...
In October members of the General Conference on Weights and Measurements are voting to change how we keep time on Earth accurate. Currently...
Nuclear fusion energy, the idea of copying the sun’s heat source on earth to make limitless commercial energy is famously always 30 years aw...
Is AI really plotting against us? In a week where an Anthropic researcher believes there is more than a 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans...
The quest for Dark Matter just got interesting. Researchers on an international project called the Lux-Zeplin (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment re...
Reports about the impacts of datacentres, including carbon emissions, water usage and power consumption, vary drastically and the truth can...
This week Merck (known as MSD in Europe) and Moderna announced that a personalised cancer vaccine had significantly improved the outcomes of...
The extreme possibilities of synthetic biology hit the headlines last week, when researchers at Stanford University in the US announced they...
Large parts of Europe are in the grip of drought. According to the UK Meteorological Office, last week was the UK's driest July on record. K...
Scientists have long referred to the Goldilocks zone – the region around a star where conditions are not too hot and not too cold but “just...
Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has announced that the US military will be screening military personnel aged 30 and older for testosterone...
A few years ago a satellite speeding through the Van Allen belt in earth orbit raised concerns that it may include a nuclear weapon. An expl...
Synthetic biologist Kate Adamal and her team at the University of Minnesota published their research into the lab-created ‘SpudCell’ in a si...
During this year’s visit to the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London, Tom Whipple discovers how sea urchins are being used to d...
As the UK and Europe battles with extreme weather warnings, is it time for us to consider some more extreme tactics to tackle the heat? Tom...
After this week’s announcement that under-16s will be banned from major social media platforms, we delve into the evidence behind the ban wi...
After 144 years the tallest tower on the Sagrada Familia is finally complete, but when Gaudi first designed it, the technology to build the...
Are we moving away from science as a strictly human endeavour? This is the view of Pushmeet Kohli, head of AI for Science at Google DeepMind...