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The home of the best science programmes from BBC Radio 4 introduced by Dr. Alex Lathbridge.
Discover more episodes in the series by searching for 28ish Days Later on BBC Sounds. What do you really know about the menstrual cycle? Ind...
Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural worl...
Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural worl...
Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural worl...
Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish to unravel this bizarrely shaped predator's ability...
Ben Garrod and Jess French delve deep inside the predatory Burmese python to examine its extraordinary body plan that enables it to catch, c...
Wild Inside embarks on something we hardly ever witness – a look inside some of nature’s most wondrous animals. Its a rare chance to delve d...
How damaging is the stereotype of white males in white coats? Do scientists think differently? Or do the qualities we associate with being a...
As Chief Scientific Advisor to the government during a pandemic, Sir Patrick Vallance's calm, clear summaries of the state of our scientific...
Prof Andrea Sella on the shifting image of the scientist in popular culture, from Victor Frankenstein to Iron Man via victorious post-war bo...
This week in Scientifically… we celebrate the life of Sir Clive Sinclair with this episode from the series Computing Britain that looks at h...
In an ideal (quantum) world, Jim Al-Khalili would be interviewing himself about his life as a scientist but since the production team can’t...
CRISPR is the latest and most powerful technique for changing the genetic code of living things. This method of gene editing is already show...
Professor Matthew Cobb looks at how genetic engineering became big business - from the first biotech company that produced human insulin in...
Biologist Matthew Cobb presents the first episode in a series which looks at the fifty year history of genetic engineering: from the concern...
This is the story, and the sound, of Puerto Rican scientist Wanda Díaz-Merced, who is revolutionising astronomy by turning data from space i...
Mark Miodownik, explores the environmental consequences of the throwaway society we have become and reveals that recycling electronic waste...
Many electronics manufacturers are making it harder and harder for individuals and independent repairers to fix their broken kit. There are...
We love our electronic gadgets, gizmos and appliances. But when it comes to repairing and caring for them, UK citizens are second only to No...
On 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became an explorer like none other before him, going faster and further than any human in history,...
Nick Baker’s collection of programmes and interviews reflects on how the impact of technology has changed, from the dawn of language to the...
Nick Baker’s collection of programmes and interviews reflects on how the impact of technology has changed, from the dawn of language to the...
Nick Baker’s three-part collection of programmes and interviews reflects on how the impact of technology has changed, from the dawn of langu...
Stephen M. Stigler's Law of Eponymy states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Professor Stigler, a statist...
n 1969, Canadian educationist Lawrence J. Peter developed an unorthodox concept that became known as The Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy ev...
If a newspaper headline ends in a question mark, is the answer always no? And if so, are journalists who use them being lazy and cynical? Ia...
Cyril Northcote Parkinson may have trained as a naval historian, but it was his succinct humorous essay for the Economist magazine in 1955 t...
“If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong.” Murphy’s Law is now a part of our culture, used to describe wrong outcomes of every sort, from...
After becoming ill with covid six months ago, Inside Science presenter Adam Rutherford is only now getting back to normal. He didn’t go to h...
Having a fast and easy way to cut out and replace genes could revolutionise areas of biology as diverse as medicine and agriculture. And the...
Before the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, nobody knew about the invisible streams of air in the middle atmosphere that are important for air...
The coelacanth is a fish that, until 1938, was only known from the fossil record until a young South African curator named Marjorie Courtena...
Evidence for the Big Bang at the start of the universe was discovered by accident, using technology developed to record radio waves from spa...
Viagra was supposed to be a treatment for the heart condition angina, but during clinical trials an unexpected side effect was noticed by th...
Can we Control the Dark Side of the Internet? The Internet is the world's most widely used communications tool. It's a fast and efficient wa...
With the coming of the World Wide Web in the 1990s internet access opened up to everybody, it was no longer the preserve of academics and co...
Just how did the Internet become the most powerful communications medium on the planet, and why does it seem to be an uncontrollable medium...
Richard Dawson, Professor of Earth System Engineering at Newcastle University, was the lead author of the Infrastructure section of the UK C...
Five scientists, working in different parts of the world, bear witness to some of the dramatic changes to our planet that have occurred in t...
Five scientists, working in different parts of the world, bear witness to some of the dramatic changes to our planet that have occurred in t...
Five scientists, working in different parts of the world, bear witness to some of the dramatic changes to our planet that have occurred in t...
Five scientists, working in different parts of the world, bear witness to some of the dramatic changes to our planet that have occurred in t...
The solutions to the problem of plastic pollution and plastic waste lie in many directions. A global plan to stop littering will go a long w...
Plastic waste has been a global crisis waiting to happen. To date it's estimated that around 8.3 billion tonnes of waste plastic exists. Tha...
Plastic waste and pollution have become a global problem but is there any sign of a global solution? And how did we allow this to happen in...
Addiction specialist Sally Marlow examines the science behind addiction to find out why so many people in Britain are hooked on drugs and al...
With smartphones and fitbits, tracking elements of your life has moved on from the dedicated followers of the Quantified Self movement, to s...
In this online age, the internet is a global megaphone, billions of messages amplified and shared, even when they're false. Fake science spr...
Frank Swain can hear Wi-Fi. Diagnosed with early deafness aged 25, Frank decided to turn his misfortune to his advantage by modifying his he...
Aged 32, science writer Frank Swain is losing his hearing. Audiologists are concerned there may be a rising tide of 'hidden hearing loss' am...